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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
