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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Kathryn Hughes
Catland : Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern WorldSome called it a craze. To others it was a cult...Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era. ‘He invented a whole cat world’... -
Leslie Hills
10 Scotland Street10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh ...10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections over two cen... -
Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
Food for the DeadWith this searingly powerful first collection, ...With this searingly powerful first collection, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight gives the current war in Ukraine some much-needed human focus, while examining its brutal aggression within a wider and mo... -
Nigel Toon,
How AI ThinksTHE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER. Those who understand h...THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER. Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and ma... -
Gareth Cole
Café CannaPerched on a beautiful Scottish island measurin...Perched on a beautiful Scottish island measuring just two miles across, Café Canna is one of the remotest restaurants in Britain. Justly famous for its seafood, landed from clear, sparkling Hebride... -
Christian Lewis
Hildasay to HomeThe No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Walking save...The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the follow-up to his Sunday Times bestselling Finding Hildasay, Christian Lewis takes his next step... -
William Dalrymple
The Golden RoadIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient wor...India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, re... -
Jente Posthuma
What I'd rather not think aboutSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE....SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them? This question lies at the heart of Jente Post... -
Dougie Donnelly
My Life in SportThis is the autobiography of Dougie Donnelly, o...This is the autobiography of Dougie Donnelly, one of Scotland’s most successful and best loved broadcasters, who has spent over 32 years with the BBC as a presenter on Grandstand and Sportscene. As... -
Irvine Welsh
The Long KnivesThe highly-anticipated second instalment in the...The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV Series In Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is investigating a brutal crime... Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castr... -
Irvine Welsh
TrainspottingRead the seminal bestselling novel that changed...Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film. Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; ... -
Irvine Welsh
ResolutionThe #1 Sunday Times bestseller is back with a p...The #1 Sunday Times bestseller is back with a powerful, riveting new novel, as maverick investigator Ray Lennox discovers that confronting his past could cost him everything. OLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW CO...
