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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Julian Baggini
How the World Eats : A Global Food PhilosophyHow we live is shaped by how we eat. You can se...How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose ... -
Paul Cooper
Fall of Civilizations : Stories of Greatness and DeclineBased on the hit podcast with over 100 million ...Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into... -
Mairi Kidd
The Specimens**Pre-order Published: 26th Sept 2024** Insid...**Pre-order Published: 26th Sept 2024** Inside the grand walls of Edinburgh's nineteenth-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets of the human body in order to discove... -
Markus Stitz
Bikepacking ScotlandBikepacking Scotland by Markus Stitz features 2...Bikepacking Scotland by Markus Stitz features 20 great multi-day off-the-beaten-track cycling adventures across the Scottish mainland and islands. The book features routes of different lengths whic... -
Abir Mukherjee
The Shadows of MenCalcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is foun...Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant... -
Abir Mukherjee
Death in the EastCalcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham a...Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. When Bessie ... -
Abir Mukherjee
A Rising ManIndia, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Capta...India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was ... -
Abir Mukherjee
HuntedIN A RACE AGAINST TIME, WHAT IF THE GREATEST TH...IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, WHAT IF THE GREATEST THREAT WAS YOUR OWN CHILD? It’s a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall…In London, armed police storm Heath... -
Ali Millar
Ava Anna AdaThe between days were days of pure white heat. ...The between days were days of pure white heat. Summer is swelling around the village. Heat is surging, people are whispering about a great hungry wave, and in the garden, Anna is kicking her dying ... -
Andrew O’Hagan
MayfliesEveryone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who def...Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush tow... -
Andrew O’Hagan
Caledonian RoadFrom the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, u...From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is enteri... -
Brooke Robinson
The Interpreter : The most dangerous person in the courtroom isn’t the killer…Single mother Revelle Lee spends her days trans...Single mother Revelle Lee spends her days translating the words of witnesses and defendants in London’s court rooms. Only she knows what they're saying; a misinterpreted word could decide their fat...
