Talking 3D digital reconstructions of a young 14th-century woman and a cleric with a cleft palate will be unveiled as part of this year’s Wigtown Book Festival. The Whithorn Trust Event, which takes place each year in association with the festival, will bring together...
Meet Gavin Barwell at Wigtown Book Festival – as a former PM’s chief of staff, journalists across the country have been turning to him for insights into the current turmoil at Number 10. Serving under Theresa May he had the closest possible view of what it’s like when...
The 2022 Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland has been launched by Wigtown Book Festival – with the aim of promoting fresh, intelligent, thought-provoking writing. The competition was established last year as a tribute to the former festival trustee and BBC radio...
David and Wilma Finlay – whose Cream o’ Galloway ice cream is loved across the UK – yesterday launched A Dairy Story, a deeply personal memoir detailing their love, their lives and their campaign for a kinder form of dairy farming. Appearing at Wigtown Book Festival,...
Galloway Nobel Prize winner Sir James Mirrlees was honoured this weekend when a plaque was unveiled at his birthplace and an annual lecture series named after him was inaugurated at Wigtown Book Festival. Sir James was (1936-2018) was born at Mill Cottage Minnigaff –...
