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July 11, 2008
House for Sale
The property at the back of the shop has just come on the market at offers over £100,000. Email for further details.
April 23, 2008
Julia Donaldson to visit Wigtown
The best-selling author of the Gruffalo visited Wigtown on 4th May, and gave an inspiring talk to a full house to launch the Wigtown Imagination Library.
September 26, 2007
Festival
This year the festival celebrates peace in Northern Ireland with First Minister, Rev Ian Paisley,
giving the opening address, and a good number of Irish and Northern
Irish writers in the programme. We look forward to welcoming a new
audience from Belfast and the surrounding area and would like to thank
Stena Line, our principal sponsor, for allowing the practicalities of
cross-channel links to be undertaken in great luxury.
Amidst
a growing number of book festivals, Wigtown continues to set itself
apart from the crowd. We are, and always will be, Scotland’s National
Book Town, with its unique concentration of bookshops, but we are not
content to rest on our laurels. This year we introduce a new theme, “On
The Edge,” which will run through this and future festivals.
On
the Edge events will reflect Wigtown’s geographical situation on the
edge of the mainland, and will include talks on islands, coastlines,
peripheral and remote places. Thus, you can hear Brian Keenan on Alaska, Lesley Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides, or Robert Twigger recounting his quest to discover one of Egypt’s lost oases.
On the Edge events will also reflect situations where individuals go against the flow of mainstream culture. Thus, we celebrate Samye Ling Tibetan Centre’s 40th Anniversary, hear Teresa Pascual
launch a Catalan poetry anthology and learn about the wild boys of 20th
century Scottish art, Robert McBride and Robert Colquhoun.
July 31, 2007
Autumn Festival
The line-up for the 2008 festival is almost complete. To join the mailing list for a programme please email us your details and we'll make sure you are sent one.
June 14, 2007
September Festival
The Scottish Book Town Festival will take place in Wigtown between 28th September and 7th October. We're putting the line-up together now. Get in touch via our contacts page if you'd like a copy of the programme when it comes out.
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