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Wigtown Book Festival 2020

Titles by our Festival Authors

    • Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

      Shaun Bythell

      Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
      £7.99
      Publication Date: 5 November 2020
      Publication Date: 5 November 2020 This title is not available until the publication date, but can be pre-ordered now and will be sent as soon as possible after th...
    • Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape

      Patrick Laurie

      Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape
      £14.99
      Desperate to connect with his native Gallowa...
      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 Gall...
    • Written in Bone

      Professor Sue Black

      Written in Bone
      £18.99
      Our bones are the silent w...
      Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, th...
    • The Fresh and the Salt

      Ann Lingard

      The Fresh and the Salt
      £25.00
      Firths and estuaries are liminal places, whe...
      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 profound...
    • The Sunlight Pilgrims

      Jenni Fagan

      The Sunlight Pilgrims
      £8.99
      It's November 2020 and the world is freezing...
      It's November 2020 and the world is freezing over. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, and vast swathes of people make for the warmer south, Dylan is heading to Scotland, once the home of his ...
    • Antlers of Water

      Edited by Kathleen Jamie

      Antlers of Water
      £20.00
      The first ever collection of contemporary Sc...
      The first ever collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water showcases the diversity and radicalism of new Scottish nature writing today. Edited, curated ...
    • A Tomb With a View

      Peter Ross

      A Tomb With a View
      £20.00
      Enter a grave new world of fascination and d...
      Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie ...
    • Mayflies

      Andrew O'Hagan

      Mayflies
      £14.99
      From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hag...
      From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 198...
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    • Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

      Shaun Bythell

      Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
      £7.99
      Publication Date: 5 November 2020
      Publication Date: 5 November 2020 This title is not available until the publication date, but can be pre-ordered now and will be sent as soon as possible after th...
    • McNeillie's Mix

      Book Bonds

      McNeillie's Mix
      £25.00
      Named after John McNeillie, author of the c...
      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...
    • Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape

      Patrick Laurie

      Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape
      £14.99
      Desperate to connect with his native Gallowa...
      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 Gall...
    • The Fresh and the Salt

      Ann Lingard

      The Fresh and the Salt
      £25.00
      Firths and estuaries are liminal places, whe...
      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 profound...
    • The Diary of a Bookseller

      Shaun Bythell

      The Diary of a Bookseller
      £8.99
      Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - S...
      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 ...
    • Confessions of a Bookseller

      Shaun Bythell

      Confessions of a Bookseller
      £8.99
      Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop i...
      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 ...
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Children's Books

    • JM Barrie's Bookshelf

      Book Bonds

      JM Barrie's Bookshelf
      £50.00
      The best of children’s literature by post. ...
      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 ...
    • Saving Gracie

      Shalla Gray

      Saving Gracie
      £7.50
      Gracie was a dairy cow, her tag said 812, sh...
      Gracie was a dairy cow, her tag said 812, she lived in green and bonny Galloway… Gracie’s life follows the peaceful rhythms of the dairy farm until one day she falls ill. Who can fix her ...
    • The Station Mouse

      Meg McLaren

      The Station Mouse
      £6.99
      Maurice is the Station Mouse, and so he must...
      Maurice is the Station Mouse, and so he must follow The Station Mouse Handbook: Rule 1: A Station Mouse must remain unseen. Rule 2: A Station Mouse must never go out in the daytime...
    • Molly's Circus

      Esther Kent

      Molly's Circus
      £6.99
      Esther Kent is the second Little Door Debut ...
      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 sim...
    • Poems To Save The World With

      Chosen and Illustrated by Chris Riddell

      Poems To Save The World With
      £12.99
      This absolutely beautiful gift book antholog...
      This absolutely beautiful gift book anthology contains classic and modern poems to galvanize, uplift and inspire you which are brought to life with exquisite, intricate artwork. Chosen and illus...
    • The Nothing to See Here Hotel

      Steven Lenton

      The Nothing to See Here Hotel
      £6.99
      A splundishly swashbungling tale of trolls, ...
      A splundishly swashbungling tale of trolls, goblins and other bonejangling creatures. Put on your wellies and plunge into the strangest hotel you will ever encounter. Welcome to The Nothi...
    • The Nothing to See Here Hotel: Sea-ing is Believing!

      Steven Lenton

      The Nothing to See Here Hotel: Sea-ing is Believing!
      £6.99
      Frankie Banister and his family are preparin...
      Frankie Banister and his family are preparing to celebrate Grandad Abraham's 175th birthday - an occasion that's going to be even more honkhumptious now that Abe's ghost has showed up! When the ...
    • Pizazz

      Sophy Henn

      Pizazz
      £6.99
      Being a superhero is the best thing ever, ri...
      Being a superhero is the best thing ever, right? Wrong! Hello! My name is Pizazz and I'm a superhero... You probably think that's really AWESOME and while it can be, it's also reeeeaallly annoyi...
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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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