See below the authors that will be attending Wigtown Book Festival 2024. Get a copy of their latest book prior to the event!
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Dylan Thomas
Out of Chaos Comes BlissDylan Thomas is one of most beloved poets of th...Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved poets of the twentieth century. Richly melodious and expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying, of childhood days lost... -
David Baddiel
My Family : The MemoirA searingly honest, funny and moving family mem...A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father’s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny. On the surface, ... -
Ariane Bankes
The Quality of Love : Twin Sisters at the Heart of the CenturyWhen her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes...When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives... -
Frank Tallis
Mortal Secrets : Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern MindLike Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wu...Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativit... -
Russell Jones
Bucket ListTwo lonely strangers. One chance encounter. Six...Two lonely strangers. One chance encounter. Six winning numbers. Dot is a lonely pensioner. Max is a young offender. But a chance meeting in their local park changes everything for this unlikely du... -
Russell Jones
Four Chancellors and a Funeral : How to Lose a Country in Ten DaysThe sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the ...The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler – it does. Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calamiti... -
Billy Sloan
One Love, One Life : Stories from the StarsWHEN legendary music journalist Billy Sloan was...WHEN legendary music journalist Billy Sloan was fifteen years old he saw The Who play an incendiary live show at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with mu... -
Elsa Richardson
Rumbles : A Curious History of the GutA Financial Times most anticipated read for 202...A Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024. Have you ever had a gut feeling? Found something hard to stomach? Have you gone belly up under pressure? Did you pull yourself together and show so... -
Andrew Ziminski
The Stonemason : A History of Building BritainA stonemason's story of the building of Britain...A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on... -
Natalie Bennett
Change Everything : How We Can Rethink, Repair and Rebuild SocietyWe are living in a social, political, economic ...We are living in a social, political, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the time to get together to build a far healthier and... -
Helena Kelly
Jane Austen, the Secret RadicalAlmost everything we think we know about Jane A...Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious su... -
Helena Kelly
The Life and Lies of Charles DickensThink you already know the story of Charles Dic...Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again. Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John F...
