See below the authors that will be attending Wigtown Book Festival 2025. Get a copy of their latest book prior to the event!
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Justin Currie
The Tremolo Diaries : Life on the Road and Other Diseases**Pre-order - published: 28 Aug 2025** Del Amit...**Pre-order - published: 28 Aug 2025** Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie reflects on life as a touring musician in the shadow of his life changing Parkinson’s diagnosis. It’s 2022 and we join Justi... -
Nicola Sturgeon
Frankly**Pre-order- Published: 14 Aug 2025** The endur...**Pre-order- Published: 14 Aug 2025** The enduring popularity of Nicola Sturgeon, the first female and longest-serving First Minister of Scotland, was a rare constant in an era marked by Brexit, Co... -
Lucy Ribchester
Murder BalladEDINBURGH, 1791. Ballad singer Isobel Duguid an...EDINBURGH, 1791. Ballad singer Isobel Duguid and her friend, the famous castrato Clessidro, are stars of the Edinburgh Musical Society. Despite Isobel's brash singing style, Clessidro's friendship ... -
Lorna Gibb
Rare Tongues : The Secret Stories of Hidden LanguagesAn enthralling tour around the rarest languages...An enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world. From the whistling languages of La Gomera in the Canary Islands and the Hmong people in East and Southeast Asia, to the wars and clashe... -
Vicky Allan, Jackie Kemp
Take Me to the RiverImmerse yourself in an ocean of great literatur...Immerse yourself in an ocean of great literature. Gasp at the cold with Amy Liptrot. Be transfixed by Iris Murdoch's monster rising from the waves.Learn how to swim like the frogs with John Muir. C... -
Lamorna Ash
Don't Forget We're Here Forever : A New Generation's Search for ReligionWhy are young people in Britain today turning t...Why are young people in Britain today turning to faith in our age of uncertainty? Lamorna Ash was raised with about as much Christianity as most people in Britain these days: a basic knowledge of h... -
Michael Pedersen
Muckle FluggaLife on a remote island is turned upside down b...Life on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger's arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer's future hanging in the balance. It's no ordinary existence ... -
Nicholas Jubber
Monsterland : A Journey Around the World’s Dark ImaginationMonsters, in all their terrifying glory, have p...Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from? In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on ... -
Shaun Bythell
Remainders of the DayThe Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll -...The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun ... -
Adam Weymouth
Lone WolfFrom the winner of the Sunday Times Young Write...From the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award comes an epic walk across the Alps in the footsteps of a wolf, throwing unique light on Europe's mountainous hinterlands at a mome... -
Tim Minshall
Your Life Is ManufacturedWe live in a manufactured world. Unless you are...We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How often do we stop to think: where do the th... -
Grant Harrold
The Royal Butler**Pre-order - Published: 28 Aug 2025** Discove...**Pre-order - Published: 28 Aug 2025** Discover the revelatory royal autobiography of the year, with stories featuring Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III and many more. From an early age, Grant ...
