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...
Sep 11, 2018
An agnostic bishop, a scientist and a ex-atheist with a fascination for a clerical killer will be exploring the many faces of death at Wigtown Book Festival. Former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway, forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black and literary...
Sep 6, 2018
A special event has been held to thank the army of volunteers who make the Wigtown Book Festival possible – ahead of the 20thannual event. Around 150 adults and children, aged from under 10 to over 80, give time throughout the year carrying out an enormous range of...
Sep 4, 2018
An important milestone has been reached in the project to transform the once-derelict Moat Brae House into a national centre for children’s literature and storytelling Contractors Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, have handed back the keys of the...
Aug 30, 2018
Little can be learned from the views of New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, but cats have much to teach us according to leading philosopher John Gray who is speaking at Wigtown Book Festival. Prof Gray, author of a number of influential books, will be at the 20thannual...
