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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Miranda Kaufmann
Heiresses**Pre-order - Published: 4 Sep 2025** Meet the ...**Pre-order - Published: 4 Sep 2025** Meet the heiresses. Their dresses are the latest fashion, their rooms Mayfair's most luxurious, their suitors Britain's most powerful men. Their fortunes – blo... -
Steve Bunce
Around the World in 80 FightsAn autobiographical white-knuckle ride around t...An autobiographical white-knuckle ride around the global fight game by the legendary Steve Bunce: the voice of the sport who is celebrating four decades of writing and talking about boxers and boxi... -
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 ... -
Natalie Fergie
25 Library TerraceHave you ever wondered about all the people who...Have you ever wondered about all the people who lived in your house before you? 25 Library Terrace in Edinburgh is a house where lives are changed. In 1911, new resident Ursula Black embraces women... -
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... -
Alexander Douglas
Against IdentityA philosopher explains why the search for ident...A philosopher explains why the search for identity is meaningless, and how we should escape the self Modern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best l... -
Kate Summerscale
The Peepshow**Pre-order - Published: 7 Aug 2025** In 1953,...**Pre-order - Published: 7 Aug 2025** In 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house. He tells the police that he chanced upon them while tryin... -
David Farrier
Nature's GeniusFor nearly four billion years, life on Earth ha...For nearly four billion years, life on Earth has found new ways to adapt, reproduce and thrive, taking on new forms to meet the environment of the moment. Human impact on the planet, and the potent... -
Foday Mannah
The Search for Othella SavageWhen one of their own is found unconscious in t...When one of their own is found unconscious in the boot of her car, Scotland's Sierra Leonean community is cast into a state of shock. And the young woman's death a few days later sparks a murder in... -
Kathryn Faulke
Every Kind of People**Pre-order - Published: 7 Aug 2025** A luminou...**Pre-order - Published: 7 Aug 2025** A luminous, uplifting and deeply moving memoir by a care worker, told through her funny, heartbreaking, sometimes frustrating, and always eye-opening encounter... -
Erica McAlpine
Small Pointed ThingsPunctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional f...Punctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional forms, the poems in Small Pointed Things turn encounters with the natural world and scenes from family life into acts of self-discovery. Poignant and f... -
Graeme Macrae Burnet
A Case of MatricideA Case of Matricide demonstrates literary talen...A Case of Matricide demonstrates literary talent of the highest order … few writers can rival Burnet.’ The Spectator Chief Inspector Gorski returns … In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis,...
