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    • Southlight 29

      Wigtown Festival Bookshop

      Southlight 29
      £5.00
      Southlight 29 is the latest print edition of Du...
      Southlight 29 is the latest print edition of Dumfries & Galloway’s very own literary magazine, which publishes the best of new poetry and short stories alongside black and white prints and phot...
    • Islands of Abandonment

      Cal Flyn

      Islands of Abandonment
      £16.99
      This is a book about abandoned places: ghost to...
      This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man's lands and fortress islands - and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place. In Chernobyl, following t...
    • Devorgilla Days

      Kathleen Hart

      Devorgilla Days
      £16.99
      Signed copies supplied. This is a story about u...
      Signed copies supplied. This is a story about uncovering the things that really matter, and discovering what makes us feel alive. It is a story about finding that inner strength and resilience, and...
    • Turning

      Jessica J. Lee

      Turning
      £9.99
      'The water slips over me like cool silk. The in...
      'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my ear...
    • The Case Against Sugar

      Gary Taubes

      The Case Against Sugar
      £9.99
      More than half a billion adults and 40 million ...
      More than half a billion adults and 40 million children on the planet are obese. Diabetes is a worldwide epidemic. Evidence increasingly shows that these illnesses are linked to the other major Wes...
    • The Case for Keto

      Gary Taubes

      The Case for Keto
      £14.99
      While government and nutritional agencies still...
      While government and nutritional agencies still spout the failed mantra of calorie reduction, doctors treating diabetes and obesity are experiencing extraordinary results among patients cutting out...
    • The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay

      Karen Lloyd

      The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay
      £12.99
      Karen Lloyd takes us on a deeply personal journ...
      Karen Lloyd takes us on a deeply personal journey around the 60 miles of coastline that make up 'nature's amphitheatre'. Embarking on a series of walks that take in beguiling landscapes and ever-ch...
    • The Eternal Season

      Stephen Rutt

      The Eternal Season
      £14.99
      An evocative exploration of the changing nature...
      An evocative exploration of the changing nature of a British summer published at the height of the season.  Summer is traditionally a time of plenty, of warmth, of breeding; a time to celebrate the...
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    • Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

      Shaun Bythell

      Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
      £7.99
      In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop...
      In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulen...
    • Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape

      Patrick Laurie

      Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape
      £9.99
      Desperate to connect with his native Galloway, ...
      Desperate to connect with his native Galloway, Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his family farm in the hills of southwest Scotland. Investing in the oldest and most traditional breeds of Gallowa...
    • Southlight 29

      Wigtown Festival Bookshop

      Southlight 29
      £5.00
      Southlight 29 is the latest print edition of Du...
      Southlight 29 is the latest print edition of Dumfries & Galloway’s very own literary magazine, which publishes the best of new poetry and short stories alongside black and white prints and phot...
    • The Fresh and the Salt

      Ann Lingard

      The Fresh and the Salt
      £25.00
      Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where ...
      Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly ...
    • Confessions of a Bookseller

      Shaun Bythell

      Confessions of a Bookseller
      £8.99
      Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in W...
      Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms....
    • The Diary of a Bookseller

      Shaun Bythell

      The Diary of a Bookseller
      £8.99
      Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scot...
      Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set...
    • McNeillie's Mix

      Book Bonds

      McNeillie's Mix
      £25.00
      Named after John McNeillie, author of the class...
      Named after John McNeillie, author of the classic work of Scottish rural realism, The Wigtown Ploughman, this is a collection of inspiring fiction and non-fiction from Scotland. Buy one of our Book...
    • Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card

      Wigtown Festival Bookshop

      Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card
      £10.00
      Would you like to buy a book as a gift, but don...
      Would you like to buy a book as a gift, but don't know which one to choose?  Why not give a Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card instead and the recipient can make their own choice?   Gift Cards ar...
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Children's Books

    • Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card

      Wigtown Festival Bookshop

      Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card
      £10.00
      Would you like to buy a book as a gift, but don...
      Would you like to buy a book as a gift, but don't know which one to choose?  Why not give a Wigtown Festival Bookshop Gift Card instead and the recipient can make their own choice?   Gift Cards ar...
    • The Otherwhere Emporium

      Ross MacKenzie

      The Otherwhere Emporium
      £7.99
      The mysterious Nowhere Emporium has appeared on...
      The mysterious Nowhere Emporium has appeared once more. With its shining bricks the colour of midnight, and rich scents of melting chocolate and exotic spices, it's easy to see why inquisitive Mirr...
    • The House Without Windows

      Jackie Morris

      The House Without Windows
      £12.99
      Discover this extraordinary lost classic of nat...
      Discover this extraordinary lost classic of nature writing - a fable about wildness and the desire to escape - beautifully illustrated by beloved artist and The Lost Words creator Jackie Morris. Li...
    • The Seige of Caerlaverock

      Barbara Henderson

      The Seige of Caerlaverock
      £6.99
      12-year-old Ada is a laundress of little conseq...
      12-year-old Ada is a laundress of little consequence but the new castle commander Brian de Berclay has his evil eye on her. Perhaps she shouldn't have secretly fed the young prisoner in the tower. ...
    • One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe

      Alan Windram

      One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe
      £6.99
      The follow up to the award-winning One Button B...
      The follow up to the award-winning One Button Benny picture book and the second book in the series. Benny's new adventure sees all the robots having to work together when more aliens arrive on thei...
    • JM Barrie's Bookshelf

      Book Bonds

      JM Barrie's Bookshelf
      £50.00
      The best of children’s literature by post. Plea...
      The best of children’s literature by post. Please feel free to request books suitable for a specific age group. Buy one of our Book Bonds, large or small and - when “normal” service is resumed - we...
    • The Jackie Morris Book of Classic Nursery Rhymes

      Jackie Morris

      The Jackie Morris Book of Classic Nursery Rhymes
      £15.00
      A wonderfully illustrated and sumptuous collect...
      A wonderfully illustrated and sumptuous collection of nursery rhymes for all ages, including many favourite rhymes as well as some that will be a delightful discovery. Originally published as The C...
    • Vlad the World's Worst Vampire

      Anna Wilson

      Vlad the World's Worst Vampire
      £5.99
      Vlad is the youngest member of the Impaler fami...
      Vlad is the youngest member of the Impaler family, the bravest vampires that ever lived. But Vlad isn't very brave at all. He's even a little bit scared of the dark! All Vlad wants is some friends ...
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Regeneration through books

In 1999 the new Scottish Parliament acknowledged Wigtown as Scotland’s National Book Town, and in the same year the first Book Festival took place. 

Since then, Wigtown has hosted an annual autumn literary festival, with a growing calendar of events through the year.

Our own bookshop has now joined the collection of booksellers in the town.

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