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Browse here for titles from our bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland's National Book Town.

Welcome to Number 26 Bookshop

Every purchase made through our online shop and in person at Number 26
supports Wigtown Book Festival and the charitable activities of Wigtown
Festival Company.

Our shop at Number 26 is open from 10am to 4pm, Monday - Saturday.

Thank you for your support

Please email bookshop@wigtownbookfestival.com if you would like a specific book ordered.

New arrivals

  • The Forest Fights Back

    Jessica den Outer

    The Forest Fights Back
    £14.99
    As the world grapples with the escalating clima...
    As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, ecosystems are collapsing, and the planet’s future hangs in the balance. For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something ...
  • Nightshade

    Autumn Woods

    Nightshade
    £9.99
    MYSTERY. MURDER. REVENGE. WELCOME TO SORROWSONG...
    MYSTERY. MURDER. REVENGE. WELCOME TO SORROWSONG UNIVERSITY . . . He’d burn the world down for her . . . but she plans to burn his to the ground. Isolated in the Scottish Highlands, Sorrowsong Unive...
  • Nightshade

    Michael Connelly

    Nightshade
    £9.99
    LAPD Detective Stilwell was forced out of the H...
    LAPD Detective Stilwell was forced out of the Homicide department and sent to a dead-end post on Santa Catalina Island. But when the idyllic holiday destination is rocked by report of a body found ...
  • Metamorphosis : A Natural and Human History

    Oren Harman

    Metamorphosis : A Natural and Human History
    £25.00
    Metamorphosis has always been one of biology's ...
    Metamorphosis has always been one of biology's greatest wonders and toughest riddles. To emerge a butterfly, a caterpillar dissolves inside its chrysalis and builds a brand new brain, wings and leg...
  • The Proof of My Innocence

    Jonathan Coe

    The Proof of My Innocence
    £9.99
    Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time pa...
    Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going now...
  • Raising Hare : The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship

    Chloe Dalton

    Raising Hare : The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship
    £10.99
    Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-f...
    Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Im...
  • We Are All Ghosts in the Forest : Volume 1

    Lorraine Wilson

    We Are All Ghosts in the Forest : Volume 1
    £9.99
    When the internet collapsed, it took the world ...
    When the internet collapsed, it took the world with it, leaving its digital ghosts behind – and they are hungry. Former photojournalist Katerina fled the overrun cities to the relative safety of he...
  • This, My Second Life

    Patrick Charnley

    This, My Second Life
    £16.99
    After a near-death experience and life-changing...
    After a near-death experience and life-changing injury, twenty-year-old Jago Trevarno goes to stay with his uncle on his small coastal farm a few miles from St Ives in Cornwall.Their existence is a...

Children's books

Titles from Big Wig and Big Dog, our annual children's book festivals

  • 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...
  • One Button Benny by Alan Windram. Book cover has an illustration of a robot flying through space with two planets in the background.

    Alan Windram

    One Button Benny
    £7.99
    Benny was different… Benny was special… Benny w...
    Benny was different… Benny was special… Benny was a robot… Benny had a bright red button in the middle of his tummy. On the button, written in big, bold letters were the words 'Only Press in an Eme...
  • One Button Benny and the Dinosaur Dilemma : 3 by Alan Windram. Book cover has five robots in a cave with a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the background.

    Alan Windram

    One Button Benny and the Dinosaur Dilemma : 3
    £7.99
    It's Friday and that means it's party time in r...
    It's Friday and that means it's party time in robot town. Benny and his friends decide they need a bit more 'robot dancing'practice before the big night. They bounce and boogie, jump andtwirl then ...
  • Uncle Pete and the Undersea Adventure

    David C Flanagan

    Uncle Pete and the Undersea Adventure
    £6.99
    Uncle Pete's plane is missing, AGAIN! It's been...
    Uncle Pete's plane is missing, AGAIN! It's been shot down by evil wildlife hunters and has sunk deep into the cold Arctic sea. That means Uncle Pete and TM will have to go and find it, fix it and b...
  • Kevin The Orange

    Alan Windram

    Kevin The Orange
    £7.99
    This laugh out loud picture book follows Kevin ...
    This laugh out loud picture book follows Kevin the Orange, who is really tired of being orange. So with the help of his friend, Brian the Pear, Kevin tries being lots of different colours with hila...
  • One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe : 2 by Alan Windram. Book cover has a robot, a robot cat running from a spectre in the background.

    Alan Windram, Chloe Holwill-Hunter

    One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe: 2
    £7.99
    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...
  • Tales from the Ocean

    Chae Strathie

    Tales from the Ocean
    £9.99
    Discover the sea creatures that call the ocean ...
    Discover the sea creatures that call the ocean home in this beautiful collection of twenty original tales. A special gift for nature lovers of all ages! The ocean is full of life, from the icy dept...
  • Star!

    Michaela Morgan

    Star!
    £8.99
    Nadia Nadim was born in to a prosperous and wel...
    Nadia Nadim was born in to a prosperous and well connected family in Afghanistan. She is one of five sisters who, with their Mother, had to leave their war torn country in fear of severe repression...

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  • Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell. Book cover has an illustration of people reading books, a black cat and a baby.

    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...
  • Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets

    Jessica Fox

    Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets
    £8.99
    A bookshop love story Jessica Fox is living in ...
    A bookshop love story Jessica Fox is living in Hollywood, a 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she is seized by a moment of inspirat...
  • The Diary of a Bookseller

    Shaun Bythell

    The Diary of a Bookseller
    £10.99
    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...
  • Devorgilla Days

    Kathleen Hart

    Devorgilla Days
    £10.99
    This is a story about uncovering the things tha...
    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 never giving up hope. E...
  • Confessions of a Bookseller

    Shaun Bythell

    Confessions of a Bookseller
    £10.99
    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....
  • Book cover of Exploring the Galloway Hills, Book 1: The Cairnsmore of Fleet range. Panoramic photograph from the top of a snow covered Cairnsmore.

    Stephen Norris

    Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 1 - The Cairnsmore of Fleet Range
    £8.99
    Stephen Norris's anthology of hillwalking stori...
    Stephen Norris's anthology of hillwalking stories is based on eight expeditions into the area behind Creetown and Gatehouse.
  • Who were the Martyrs of Wigtown?: The Story of the Two Margarets by Lindsay Banks. Book cover has an illustration of the Martyr's Monument on the merse below Wigtown.

    Lindsey Banks

    Who Were the Martyrs of Wigtown?
    £4.99
    In Wigtown, South West Scotland, there is a sta...
    In Wigtown, South West Scotland, there is a stake out at sea to commemorate the drownings of two women in 1685. Who were these women and why were they drowned? Lindsay Banks weaves the stories of t...
  • Book cover of Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 2 The Minnigaff Range by Stephen Norris. Panoramic countryside photo of a dog in the Galloway Hills.

    Stephen Norris

    Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 2 The Minigaff Range
    £10.00
    In Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 2 The Min...
    In Exploring the Galloway Hills: Book 2 The Minigaff Range, the author takes readers into a huge tract of hills and mountains in the western Stewartry. It is a wild domain of plunging crags and swe...

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About us

Regeneration through books

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