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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Claire Mitchell, Zoe Venditozzi
HOW TO KILL A WITCHAs a woman, if you lived in Scotland in the 150...As a woman, if you lived in Scotland in the 1500s, there was a very good chance that you, or someone you knew, would be tried as a witch. Witch hunts ripped through the country for over 150 years, ... -
Fern Riddell
Victoria's Secret : The Private Passion of a QueenMine is a nature which requires being loved, an...Mine is a nature which requires being loved, and I have lost almost all those who loved me most on earth. From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became kn... -
Chris Barkley
The Man on the Endless Stair**Pre-order - Published: 7 Aug 2025** When trou...**Pre-order - Published: 7 Aug 2025** When troubled but talented young author Euan meets decorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall, he feels his luck has finally changed. Malcolm takes Euan as a protégé... -
John Kay
The Corporation in the Twenty-First CenturyFor generations, we have defined a corporation ...For generations, we have defined a corporation as a business that uses its accumulated wealth to own the means of production and exercise economic power.That is no longer the reality. Corporations ... -
James Hanning
The Bookseller of Hay : The Life and Times of Richard Booth**Pre-order - Published: 4 Sep 2025** In 1962, ...**Pre-order - Published: 4 Sep 2025** In 1962, a young man left university without a degree and, for want of anything better to do, bought a small shop in an obscure market town on the edge of the ... -
Tom Ough
The Anti-Catastrophe LeagueA superbly written work of narrative non-fictio...A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world. Our spec... -
Charlie English
The CIA Book Club : The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold WarThe astonishing story of the ten million books ...The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest ... -
Arabella Byrne, Julia Hamilton
In the Blood : On Mothers, Daughters and AddictionAlcohol flows across families like water over a...Alcohol flows across families like water over a landscape. Sometimes it moves in torrents, sometimes in floods, sometimes in trickles.It always shapes the ground it covers in unmistakable ways.' In... -
Alex Riley
Super Natural : How Life Thrives in Impossible PlacesFrom scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from ...From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear inimical to life - yet in which it f... -
Ewan Morrison
For EmmaEmma is a young genius Silicon Valley scientist...Emma is a young genius Silicon Valley scientist who dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment.Her voice then haunts her father, helping him plan the killing of the Big Tech CEO who destroyed her. F... -
Steven Parissien
Another Round? : A Post-War History of Britain in Twelve Drinks**Pre-order - Published: 11 Sep 2025** Raise a...**Pre-order - Published: 11 Sep 2025** Raise a glass to the Great British tradition of booze, and the twelve drinks that made it what it is today… Cheers! The history of Britain, perhaps more so t... -
Peter Ross
Upon a White Horse : Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland**Pre-order - Published: 11 Sep 2025** Beautif...**Pre-order - Published: 11 Sep 2025** Beautiful and strange, ancient monuments have long captured our attention and curiosity. We stand in awe before them, asking who created the Uffington White ...
