Wigtown Book Festival

Summer Festivals 2012: Books

Essential info on Bloody Scotland and the Wigtown and Borders book fests

25 May 2012

Borders Book Festival Where: Harmony Garden, Melrose, 14–17 June, bordersbookfestival.org Price: £9–£13 per event. Line-up: Sir David Frost, Hilary Mantel, William Boyd, Alistair Darling, John Sessions There have been a few eyebrows raised by this…

Timeline - Summer music festivals 2011 from Scotland and beyond

A chronological list of the best festivals in Scotland and beyond

27 May 2011

A chronological list of the most significant festivals happening in Scotland this summer, along with the biggest and best from the rest of the UK and beyond.

Wigtown Book Festival: Fergal Keane

Journalist and war correspondent on subjectivity, Ireland and Rwanda

10 Oct 2011

Fergal Keane has just written Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima, about a little remembered battle which halted the Japanese in their progress towards invading India in 1944. But he did not talk about this book, although he talked of many things…

Wigtown Book Festival: Beyond the Arab Spring

Rosemary Hollis, Martin Bell, Robert Irwin and Robin Yassin Kassab

6 Oct 2011

This year has changed many of us who only had a vague idea of the kings and dictators who have made life hell for many people in North Africa and the Middle East, suddenly we are much better informed as the electrifying events of the year have unfolded.

Tom Hodgkinson's Brave Old World of self-sufficiency

Wigtown Book Fair event by founder of The Idler

6 Oct 2011

There is something very likeable about the journalist and publisher Tom Hodgkinson, founder of The Idler magazine who was appearing at the Wigtown Book Festival. He likes to look at life with a fresh eye and question whether we are all going about it in…

The best literary festivals in Scotland 2011

Wigtown, Borders, Inverness and Edinburgh host book festivals

30 May 2011

Borders Book Festival. Melrose’s delightfully titled Harmony Garden will open its gates to 65 events featuring an array of authors and personalities. Among the hotshot names appearing are Maureen Lipman, Michael Parkinson, Alexander McCall Smith, Kirsty…

Wigtown Book Festival 2010

28 May 2010

‘The best way to explain the Wigtown Book Festival is to explain Wigtown first of all,’ says festival director Adrian Turpin. ‘It’s Scotland’s National Book Town, which means it has lots of bookshops and book businesses. It’s like a mini Hay-on-Wye…

Wigtown Book Festival 2009: Highlights from the final weekend

29 Oct 2009

Wigtown Book Festival, hidden deep within rural Dumfries & Galloway, is one of the main events on the UK literary calenday. Griselda Murray Brown spent a weekend sampling the events on offer.

Wigtown Book Festival

23 Sep 2009

Edinburgh might have the biggest book festival in the world but Wigtown stands up as an individual one the with over 150 events over ten days, mixing up big names like Roddy Doyle (pictured), Julia Donaldson and Nick Nairn with local specials including…

Diana Athill, Paddy Doyle and Iain Banks set for Wigtown Book Festival

15 Sep 2009

Tucked away on the Galloway coast, pretty little Wigtown is home to one of Scotland's worst kept literary secrets. After a bumper year in 2008, the annual Wigtown Book Festival looks set for its busiest year on record, with more than 170 events over 10…

5 Literary Festivals

28 May 2009

FEKP (Festival of the European Short Story) Expand your horizons at this laid-back, youthful and polylingual Croatian festival happening in and around the cafes, nightclubs and bars of Zagreb, often finishing up with a riotous night of gigging, and…

Great expectations

Programme announced at Wigtown Book Festival

4 Sep 2008

Book lovers have little reason to be disappointed following the launch of this year's sizeable Wigtown Book Festival programme. Taking place over ten days, the event will boast over 130 talks, debates, theatre, film and activities, organiser's revealed…

Festivals

5 Jun 2008

Until 8 June Leith Festival Various venues, Leith, Edinburgh, prices vary www.leithfestival.com Leith Festival showcases its trademark brew of home-grown talent and big name headliners with over 100 musical acts, 50 comedians and a dozen visual…