Shelves of old paperback books, a person is peering through the gap in between the top and bottom shelves.

Bookshops

A town made of books

Wigtown - Scotland's National Book Town - is home to seventeen bookshops and book-related businesses. Open all year round, they offer a haven for readers and writers.

Visit Wigtown's bookshops

The Association of Wigtown Booksellers has its own website, where you can find regularly updated information on the many bookshops of Wigtown and other attractions, as well as news about Scotland's National Book Town.

Visit Wigtown Book Town website
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Buy books and support WBF

Bookselling is just one of the ways that Wigtown Book Festival sustains itself. The Festival Company runs the Number 11 Bookshop (new and contemporary) as well as the Open Book (second-hand). At the autumn festival, we also operate a temporary shop selling titles specific to that year's events.

Wigtown Festival Company, shop and box office. Cream painted building with green trim. Four planters with flowers stand outside.

Number 11

Open year-round, Number 11 is Wigtown Festival Company's book and gift shop. We stock a wide range of new books, including signed copies from Festival authors.

Also available are a range of quality literary themed gifts and local arts and crafts to suit every budget. We stock a small range of local and Scottish products including Bladnoch Whisky, Hills and Harbour Gin, and Five Kingdoms Beer (Number 11 is licensed for the sale of alcohol daily from 10am-8pm).

Opening hours

Year round: Mon-Sat, 10am-4pm

During Wigtown Book Festival: Mon-Sun, 9am-5pm

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Number 11 Online

Our online bookshop selling festival titles, signed copies and works by local writers.

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The Open Book

The Open Book is a holiday experience like no other, offering residents the opportunity to run a bookshop during their stay. The bookshop, with a one-bedroom self-catering flat above, is located in the heart of Wigtown. It is designed to encourage, reaffirm or rekindle a love of books and welcomes people from around the globe to one of the most beautiful places in Scotland. With sea, forests, an amazing community and many other bookshops on the doorstep, it’s a book lover's haven.

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The Open Book bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland's National Book Town. People are walking around outside, two men are seated at the table and chairs reading books. A signpost in green and bunting above it displaying the bookshop's name. Window boxes full of flowers adorn each window.