Wigtown Book Festival

eleven poets for wigtown

Vanishing Point

Martin Joseph O Neill

The fifth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

The Gardener’s Diary

Jeanette Abendstern

The fourth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Beyond Criffel

Peter Roberts

The third in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Scenes of The Solway

Celia Donovan

The second in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Water birth

Fiona Lindsay

The first in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

A Midsummer Night's Wicker Man

Robin Ince and Rev Richard Coles

A special exploration of the Galloway-set 1970s horror film.

Peter Pan revisited

Stuart Kelly

As part of our series about books with Galloway connections, author Stuart Kelly revisits Peter Pan and finds a layered, complex and occasionally cruel fable about our relationship to time.

Diary of a Bookseller in Lockdown

Shaun Bythell

The author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell, on how he has coped with with shutting his Wigtown shop during lockdown.

The Five Red Herrings revisited

Lee Randall takes a journey back to the Golden Age of crime with Dorothy L Sayers' Dumfries and Galloway novel, The Five Red Herrings.

Lovely Nelly

A new collection

In the 1770s, the brig Lovely Nelly left the Solway for Prince Edward Island carrying the hopes of 120 families. Now a new collection of writing imagines their stories.

Bookclub: Native

Patrick Laurie

Experience life on a Galloway farm from the comfort of your armchair with Patrick Laurie and his new book, Native.

Galloway Tales: Fairies and plagues

Hugh McMillan

Writer and historian Hugh McMillan views south-west Scotland through the eyes of an unreliable local. First up: the truth about fairy folk and plagues.

Native: a farmer's tale (extract)

Patrick Laurie

Desperate to connect with his native Galloway, Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his family farm in the hills of southwest Scotland.

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