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FREE Wigtown Book Festival 2024 Starts This Week 03

Wigtown Book Festival gets underway with The Hebridean Baker, Sue Lawrence and Irvine Welsh

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Scotlandā€™s National Book Town will burst into life with the start of the annual Wigtown Book Festival this week. Well-known names at this yearā€™s event...
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The Good Books, Jenni Fagan: ‘I found Alice Walker at a really pivotal moment in my reading life’

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Author and poet Jenni Fagan on finding her love of reading as a child, being inspired by Alice Walker and the book she always recommends....
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The Good Books, Angie Spoto: ‘I re-read The Hobbit and fell in love with it all over again’

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Angie Spoto on the book she recommends to everyone, reading the books of her childhood to her son, and her favourite place to read.Ā   ...
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The couple who gambled everything to become Wigtown bookshop owners

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Joyce Cochrane had just discovered she was pregnant when she and her partner Ian gave up their jobs and moved from Edinburgh to revive a...
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The Good Books, J.D. Oswald: ‘Realising you can stop reading something you don’t enjoy and pick up something else is liberating’

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J.D. Oswald on his memories of reading as a child, how he doesn't enjoy Dickens and becoming addicted to audiobooks.Ā    The first book I...
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Shortlist announced for Bloody Scotland 2024 McIlvanney Prize

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The shortlist for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize at Stirlingā€™s crime writing festival has been revealed. The prestigious award, named in honour of the iconic late...
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