Titles by our 2020 Festival Authors
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Shaun Bythell
Seven Kinds of People You Find in BookshopsIn twenty years behind the till in The Books...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, flatu... -
Claire Cox
A Book of DaysThe Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2020. <...The Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2020. Claire Cox's poetry collection which won this category in the Wigtown Poetry Prize 2020, beautifully set by Gerry Cambridge. -
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie BainIt is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good famili...It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a li... -
Sophy Roberts
The Lost Pianos of SiberiaSiberia's story is traditionally one of exil...Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos - grand instruments created d... -
Professor Sue Black
Written in BoneOur 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... -
Andrew Marr
ElizabethansWho made modern B...Who made modern Britain the country it is today? What does it mean to be the new Elizabethans? Back in 1953 when the Queen ascended her throne, Britain was a ve... -
Patrick Laurie
Native: Life in a Vanishing LandscapeDesperate 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... -
George Alagiah
The Burning Land‘It was never meant to be like this. Sabotag...‘It was never meant to be like this. Sabotage, yes. Propaganda, yes. All of that and more – but not this. Not murder.’ South Africa has become a powder keg. Its precious land is being sol... -
Peter Ross
A Tomb With a ViewEnter 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 ... -
Andrew O'Hagan
MayfliesFrom 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... -
Alice Tarbuck
A Spell in the WildWitches occupy a clear place in con...Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, emerging shadowy, from the corners of the past: mad, glamorous, difficult, strange. They haunt the footnotes o... -
David Wilson
Signs of MurderBefore David Wilson became the UK's pre-emin...Before David Wilson became the UK's pre-eminent criminologist, he was just a young boy growing up in the Scottish town of Carluke. As a child, the brutal murder of a young woman rocked this smal...
