Sep 22, 2018
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon helped get the 20th annual Wigtown Book Festival underway with a talk about her lifelong love of books. She also met young people from the festival’s Book Bridge team to chat about their favourite reads. The Book Bridge team...
Sep 18, 2018
A first glimpse inside the newly restored Moat Brae House, where Peter Pan began, has revealed the extent of the work undertaken to save a Scottish architectural gem. The B listed Georgian house, dating from 1823, was designed by Walter Newall and was regarded as...
Sep 17, 2018
Artist Astrid Jaekel has wallpapered the outside of around a dozen shops and other buildings in the centre of Wigtown ahead the town’s 20thannual book festival. Each design tells a story about a building in Scotland’s National Book Town. The results will be a...
Sep 17, 2018
The world’s wild places – near and far – will be explored at Wigtown Book Festival by an author and a photographer who both have their roots in Dumfries and Galloway. Stephen Norris, a journalist with a love of hillwalking, will be launching his second book about the...
Sep 13, 2018
In 1506 Britain’s first known African baby was born in Scotland – something of such interest that a nurse was paid to show the infant to King James IV. The royal record of this event was identified by Dr Miranda Kaufmann, author of a recently published book called...
Sep 12, 2018
International soprano Emma Morwood yesterday sang in what could be “the world’s smallest opera house” for the programme launch of next month’s Kirkcudbright Festival of Light. The 10-day event, from 5-14 October, is a celebration of the remarkable quality of light in...
