Festival Highlights

Find out more about this year's highlights here: Wigtown Book Festival Highlights

 
Lauren Child
An Audience with Lauren Child
Sat 24 Sep - 10:30 UK
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Clive Stafford Smith
The Far Side of the Moon
Sat 24 Sep - 12:00 UK
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Lisa Jewell and Will Brooker
The Truth About Lisa Jewell
Sat 24 Sep - 13:30 UK
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Robert Harris
Act of Oblivion
Tue 27 Sep - 14:30 UK
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Andrew Cotter
Dog Days: A Year with Olive and Mabel
Fri 30 Sep - 19:30 UK
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Sarah Churchwell
The Wrath To Come - Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Sat 1 Oct - 15:00 UK
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Jeremy Bowen
The Making of the Modern Middle East
Sat 1 Oct - 16:30 UK
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Roopa Farooki
Everything Is True
Sun 2 Oct - 13:30 UK
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Events from the Year of Stories

 
Karen Campbell, Hugh McMillan & Gerda Stevenson
Local Legends
Fri 23 Sep - 18:30 UK
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Gary Maclean
Gary Maclean's Scottish Kitchen
Sat 24 Sep - 12:00 UK
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Gerda Stevenson
Letting Go
Sat 24 Sep - 15:00 UK
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The Bookshop Untold
Sat 24 Sep - 19:00 UK
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Big Wig is back for more festival fun

 
Petr Horacek
The Perfect Present Storytime and Craft
Sat 24 Sep - 13:30 UK
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Emma Carroll
Retelling Fairy Tales
Sat 24 Sep - 13:30 UK
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Tọlá Okogwu
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
Sat 24 Sep - 16:30 UK
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Dr Punam Krishan
Real Life Heroes: How to Be a Doctor
Sat 1 Oct - 15:00 UK
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Visit our bookshop online

Looking for your next read? Our online bookshop stocks all the titles from our current and recent online programmes, bestsellers and new publications. We can also order any new title we don't stock to have delivered to your door within 3 working days (subject to availability). Each sale helps support the work of Wigtown Book Festival.

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Christine Pillainayagam
Ellie Pillai is Brown
Sat 24 Sep - 16:30 UK
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Benjamin Dean
The King is Dead
Sat 1 Oct - 15:00 UK
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Harry Baker
Unashamed
Sat 1 Oct - 18:00 UK
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Melinda Salisbury
Her Dark Wings
Sun 2 Oct - 15:00 UK
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Wigtown: Scotland's National Book Town. Road signage on a grassy verge
Scotland's Book Town

A community regenerated by books

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A browser outside The Bookshop on Wigtown's main street
Wigtown's bookshops

More than a dozen to explore

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A panel event during Wigtown Book Festival
History of the festival

Two decades of literary celebration

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