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 –...
Wigtown Book Festival has got off to a great start with a host of compelling speakers ranging from Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross, TV’s Red Shepherdess Hannah Jackson and actor Gerda Stevenson to Astronomer Royal Professor Lord Martin Rees and Scotland’s National...
Wigtown Book Festival, a 10-day celebration of stories and literature, starts this Friday with more than 200 events for every age and interest. They include 45 pay what you can and 30 streamed events, plus many that are free. The nine young adult events are free to...
David and Wilma Finlay’s decades long work to make dairy farming kinder to cows and their calves took on a new urgency when Wilma was diagnosed with cancer. Together they run The Ethical Dairy at Rainton Farm in south west Scotland and make the famous Cream o’...
Wigtown Book Festival, a 10-day celebration of stories and literature, starts this Friday with more than 200 events for every age and interest. They include 45 pay what you can and 30 streamed events, plus many that are free. The nine young adult events are free to...
Take a lyrical journey deep into the starry nights of Galloway or enter the portals of an enchanted bookshop that can reveal untold stories about Scotland’s famous writers. Into the Nicht, a series of night-time walks led by Dark Skies Ranger Elizabeth Tindall and...
Inspired by Wigtown – a campaign was launched last night to establish the rural community of Granard as Ireland’s first ever Book Town. It’s hoped that the 800-strong community in County Longford can reap similar benefits to those experienced by Wigtown, 200 miles...
Back in the 1950s-60s, when winter came to Deception Island in the Antarctic, the small group of scientists based there faced long months of total, freezing darkness. Visitors to this year’s Wigtown Book Festival can step inside a replica refuge hut and glimpse what...
