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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Tricia O’Malley
Love's a Witch**Pre-order - Published: 30 Sep 2025** She’s he...**Pre-order - Published: 30 Sep 2025** She’s hexed. He’s vexed. And for Scotland’s most magical small-town, their feud might just spell disaster. Sloane MacGregor swore she’d never return to Briarh... -
Julian Evans
Undefeatable'This is the account we've been starved of: an ...'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the country’s game. ‘Odesa is my discovered heart,’ confesses Julian Evans, ... -
Colin Bramwell
Fower PessoasFower Pessoas is the most original work of tran...Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry by an exciting next-generation Scottish poet. Following his subje... -
Jim Phillips
Coalfield JusticeIn June 2022, former miners secured through the...In June 2022, former miners secured through the Scottish Parliament a collective pardon for convictions acquired during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The Miners’ Strike (Pardons) (Scotland) Act recog... -
Marjorie Lotfi
The Wrong Person To AskWinner of the Forward Prize for Best First Coll...Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize. Marjorie Lotfi’s award-winning debut collection is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the i... -
Heather Parry
Carrion CrowThere are some facts about the world that only ...There are some facts about the world that only your mother can teach you. Marguerite had been confined for the sake of her wellbeing. That’s what her mother had said. Marguerite Périgord is locked ... -
Graham Robb
The Discovery of Britain**Pre-order - Published: 2 Oct 2025** Taking th...**Pre-order - Published: 2 Oct 2025** Taking the reader on a time-travelling adventure around the 'spindly, sea-wracked islands' we call home, The Discovery of Britain is history that's panoramic a... -
Nina Allan
A Granite SilenceA Granite Silence is an exploration - a journey...A Granite Silence is an exploration - a journey through time to a particular house, in a particular street, Urquhart Road, Aberdeen in 1934, where eight-year-old Helen Priestly lives with her mothe... -
James Bailey
The Meaning of LifeJames Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and q...James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one simple question:... -
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... -
Ian Carter
Wild GallowayThoughtful and reflective, full of the life-aff...Thoughtful and reflective, full of the life-affirming pleasures of time spent in nature. An introduction to Galloway's habitats and their uniquely varied wildlife. Conveys the joy of getting to kno... -
Helen Lederer
Not That I'm BitterWhat was it like as one of a handful of women a...What was it like as one of a handful of women at the heart of the right-on alternative comedy scene in the 1980s? Piece of cake? Bit of a laugh? Well, yes, and no. It had its ups - but also its dow...
