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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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 ... -
Lucy Ash
The Baton and the Cross : Russia's Church from Pagans to PutinFor more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodo...For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills - from the Mongol yoke to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, from Soviet atheism to the chaotic 199... -
Alistair Moffat
To See Ourselves : A Personal History of Scotland Since 1950Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck s...Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in ... -
Janet Brennan-Inglis
Barholm Castle : The History of a Home and the Making of a GardenIn 1999, Barholm Castle in Galloway had lai...In 1999, Barholm Castle in Galloway had lain ruinous and derelict for over two hundred years when Janet Brennan-Inglis and her husband John bought it as a restoration project. Together with a t... -
Rosemary Goring
Exile : The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of ScotsFrom the moment Mary, Queen of Scots set foot o...From the moment Mary, Queen of Scots set foot on English soil in 1568 until her execution at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, she was the prisoner of her cousin, Elizabeth I. Unlike Mary’s t... -
Mollie Hughes
Breathe : Life Lessons from the Edge of the WorldMollie Hughes has explored some of the wildest ...Mollie Hughes has explored some of the wildest environments on earth, from the top of Mount Everest to the vast frozen continent of Antarctica, where at the age of 29 she skied solo from Hercules I... -
Bijan Omrani
God is an Englishman : Christianity and the Creation of EnglandChristianity in England is in decline.Congregat...Christianity in England is in decline.Congregations are dwindling and ever fewer young people believe. Should we merely shrug our shoulders and accept this as inevitable and even healthy, or is som... -
Sara Stewart
A Long Way South : Salvaged Memories from Travels in Latin AmericaIn A Long Way South, itinerant traveller Sara S...In A Long Way South, itinerant traveller Sara Stewart relates memories salvaged from her explorations of Latin America during 1974/5, a turbulent, politically unstable period where kidnappings and ...
