Wigtown Festival Company bookshop, the shop front in Wigtown. Wigtown Festival Company bookshop, the shop front in Wigtown.

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Every purchase made through our online shop and in person at Number 11 supports Wigtown Book Festival and the charitable activities of Wigtown Festival Company.

Our shop at Number 11 is open from 10am to 4pm, Monday - Saturday.

We look forward to seeing you.

Wigtown Book Festival

New Arrivals

    • Quinn

      Em Strang

      Quinn
      £14.99
      From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforge...
      From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness. How far would you go to overcome the limits of your own forgiveness? Quinn is serving a life senten...
    • Darling

      India Knight

      Darling
      £14.99
      Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, t...
      Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her ...
    • Here Again Now

      Okechukwu Nzelu

      Here Again Now
      £14.99
      From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes...
      From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you move forward when the past keeps pulling you back? Achike Okoro feels like his life is coming tog...
    • Constructing a Nervous System : A Memoir

      Margo Jefferson

      Constructing a Nervous System : A Memoir
      £16.99
      Margo Jefferson boldly and brilliantly fuses cu...
      Margo Jefferson boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art. Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, i...
    • The Candy House

      Jennifer Egan

      The Candy House
      £9.99
      From one of the most dazzling and iconic writer...
      From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no l...
    • Liberation Day

      George Saunders

      Liberation Day
      £18.99
      George Saunders returns with a collection of sh...
      George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth o...
    • Invisible Child

      Andrea Elliott

      Invisible Child
      £10.99
      Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisibl...
      Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeles...
    • Hortus Curious : Discover the World's Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and Fungi

      Michael Perry

      Hortus Curious : Discover the World's Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and Fungi
      £16.99
      Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world...
      Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world. Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spect...
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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...
    • There's ma Mammy Wavin'

      Josie Neill

      There's ma Mammy Wavin'
      £10.00
      Josie Neill has been writing beautiful, grounde...
      Josie Neill has been writing beautiful, grounded Scots poetry for half a century. Her poetry evokes a rural childhood long gone but tackles contemporary issues too. In a time when writing in Scots ...
    • 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...
    • Confessions of a Bookseller

      Shaun Bythell

      Confessions of a Bookseller
      £9.99
      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....
    • 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
      £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...
    • Fishing for Change

      Ken Barlow

      Fishing for Change
      £11.99
      In the late spring of 1991, dedicated health p...
      In the late spring of 1991, dedicated health professional, football nut, devoted father, and angling obsessive Ken Barlow upped sticks from his home in Tyneside and took off for south-west Scotlan...
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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...
    • 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...
    • One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Sir Tom Moore

      Captain Tom Moore

      One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Sir Tom Moore
      £7.99
      A message of resilience and optimism, when we h...
      A message of resilience and optimism, when we have needed it most. This is the book of hope for Christmas. A book about adventure, family, hope and what we can achieve when we work together.If ever...
    • 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...
    • A Year of Nature Poems

      Joseph Coelho

      A Year of Nature Poems
      £7.99
      A poem for every month, this is a beautiful ant...
      A poem for every month, this is a beautiful anthology of nature poems by best-loved children's poet, Joseph Coelho encourages a love for the natural world and the importance of looking after it. 'a...
    • While We Can't Hug

      Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar

      While We Can't Hug
      £6.99
      The bestselling and heart-warming picture book ...
      The bestselling and heart-warming picture book that shows us ways to be affectionate while social distancing, from the team behind The Hug. Hedgehog and Tortoise were the best of friends. They want...
    • Molly's Circus

      Esther Kent

      Molly's Circus
      £6.99
      Esther Kent is the second Little Door Debut to ...
      Esther Kent is the second Little Door Debut to be published by Little Door Books. She is an exciting new author/illustrator who uses a wonderful palette of colours and shapes to express this simple...
    • The Tall Tale of the Giant's Causeway : Finn McCool, Benandonner and the road between Ireland and Scotland

      Lari Don

      The Tall Tale of the Giant's Causeway : Finn McCool, Benandonner and the road between Ireland and Scotland
      £7.99
      "Long ago, when giants lived in Scotland and Ir...
      "Long ago, when giants lived in Scotland and Ireland, they stood so tall they could see clearly across the wide water between the two lands." One day, Irish giant Finn McCool spots Scottish giant B...
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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 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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