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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Stephen Rutt
The Saltmarsh LibraryIn this limited edition book, acclaimed nature ...In this limited edition book, acclaimed nature writer, Stephen Rutt, turns his focus to the saltmarsh of Wigtown Bay. He sees it through time and tide, plant and bird, across its vast expanse and d... -
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... -
Julie McNeill
Love Goes NorthIn Love Goes North, Julie McNeill presents a h...In Love Goes North, Julie McNeill presents a heartfelt collection of poetry that serves as a love letter to trains, travel and the myriad experiences that shape our lives. Through her evocative ve... -
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... -
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... -
Denise Mina
The Good LiarIf you were responsible for a miscarriage of ju...If you were responsible for a miscarriage of justice would you admit it? The truth can set you free. Or destroy your life. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s evidence put a killer behind... -
Louise Minchin
Isolation IslandTEN STRANGERS. Investigative journalist Lauren ...TEN STRANGERS. Investigative journalist Lauren never dreamed she'd find herself on a remote Scottish island, in the depths of winter, taking part in the most gruelling reality show ever devised. Th... -
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 ... -
Jonathan Mullard
Forgotten ForestsAncient trees, some over a thousand years old, ...Ancient trees, some over a thousand years old, are dotted around the British Isles, the last survivors of a lost world. Now, new scientific studies of these trees and of fossilised forests and of o... -
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Benbecula : Darkland Tales**Pre-order - Published: 2 Oct 2025** On 9 Jul...**Pre-order - Published: 2 Oct 2025** On 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the island of Benbecula, murdered his father, mother and aunt. At trial in Inverness he was found ... -
Natalie Jayne Clark
The Malt Whisky MurdersWhisky is a bloody business . . .When a dilapid...Whisky is a bloody business . . .When a dilapidated distillery comes up for sale in rural Kintyre, Eilidh and her wife Morag jump at the chance. But their ambition to run the first women-owned whis... -
Lesley-Ann Jones
Love, Freddie**Pre-order - published: 5 Sep 2025** Few peop...**Pre-order - published: 5 Sep 2025** Few people knew that Freddie Mercury kept a diary. When he died in 1991, he left behind seventeen handwritten notebooks chronicling his life and times, which ...
