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WIGTOWN BOOK FESTIVAL 21–30 SEPTEMBER 2018 sponsorsQ funders Funders National Media Partners Awards

Regional Media Partners Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2018 Our Benefactors Cultural Event of the Year Through their individual donations, our Benefactors have helped to sow the seeds for Wigtown Book Festival’s growth and its continuing success, for Associate Sponsors which we are very grateful. We also wish to offer our thanks for the exceptionally generous bequests of May Lewis and Beverley Mathias, true friends of the festival.

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This year’s festival will include: Martin Bell, Sally Magnusson, Joanne Harris, Winnie Ewing, Jeremy Bowen, Bernard MacLaverty,Wigtown Book Town Company 2018 Themes 7 and Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association present Richard Holloway, Sheena MacDonald, Allan Little, Alan Taylor, www.wigtown-booktown.co.uk Julia Donaldson, Monty Don, Libby Purves, Mairi Hedderwick,The Wigtown Cathy Cassidy, Miles Hilton Barber... Poetry Competition 2005 in association with INSPIRED BY BOOKS SCOTLAND’S NATIONAL BOOK TOWN SCOTLAND’S NATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION Visual Arts 8 £2000 WigtownWIGTOWN Festival Office FIRST PRIZE Scottish Book Town Festival County Buildings Launched at the 2005 Wigtown Book Festival Wigtown DG8 9JH 23 Sept - 2 Oct 2005 SIXTH ANNUALon Oct 1st Main Programme 10 Tel: 01988 403222 Entry details available from Oct 1st from Andrew Forster Fax: 01988 402506 on 01387 253383 or [email protected] George Alan Michael www.wigtown-booktown.co.uk/festivalLITERARY FESTIVAL Max Kate Adie Funded by Leader + Arthur Galloway Taylor Fry 17TH-26TH SEPTEMBER

Wigtown Magnus Philip Neil Big Wig (children’s events) 44 EventScotland is proud to support Wigtown Book Festival 2018. Bookshops Al Alvarez Our bookshops are open between 9/10am and 6pm during the Festival Magnusson Serrell Doyle so take the time to call in….you will be made most welcome 451f Byre Books The Bookend Studio 29 South Main Street 24 South Main Street 23 North Main Street Tel: 01988 402515 Tel: 01988 402133 Tel: 01988 402403 Joan Martin Isla John Bill Bakewell Treacher Dewar Cairney Duncan Aa1 Books Cauldron The Bookshop Unit 3, Duncan Park 3 High Street 17 North Main Street WTF (YA events) 50 Tel: 01988 402653 Tel: 01988 402417 Tel: 01988 402499

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ES_ Wigtown Book 2018.indd 1 28/06/2018 10:58 festival 2018 THIS YEAR’S THEMES OUT & ABOUT Twenty vision Out & About It’s our birthday and From sleeping in the Galloway we’re going to celebrate. Forest Park and sailing on the This year’s programme Solway, to bat-watching and includes a series of events marking stargazing at the harbour, WBF18 our 20th festival and the 20th offers a host of opportunities anniversary of Wigtown becoming to get out and about. We’re Scotland’s Book Town. Look out for passionate about what this the logos in the event listings. corner of Scotland has to offer We’ll be looking afresh at how the and encourage you to take town reinvented itself as a literary time to explore the area around destination following the closure of Wigtown. There are lots of things the local distillery (now happily back to do outside the festival too, Fernhill Hotel Cally Palace North West Castle in operation) and of the creamery many of which can be found at in Bladnoch, and we’ll be gathering www.booktownscotland.com. Portpatrick, DG9 8TD Gatehouse of Fleet, DG7 2DL Stranraer, DG9 8EH t: 01776 810 220 t: 01557 814 341 t: 01776 704 413 together some of the key players in e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] that process of regeneration. Year of The 2018 festival also welcomes Young People the founders of Africa’s first book 2018 is Scotland’s Afternoon Tea - Lunch - Dinner - Golf - Short Breaks - Curling - Weddings - Groups - Events town, the small farming community Year of Young People, of Richmond in South Africa’s Karoo which aims to inspire the nation www.mcmillanhotels.co.uk desert, who took their inspiration through its young people and from reading about what was taking create opportunities for them. place in this corner of Galloway, half We’re supporting it through a world away. WTF, our free festival within a Finally, we consider how Scotland festival run by 13-25 year-olds. and the world has been transformed Did you know that if you’re since 1998, and we take a peek into under 26, you can get tickets the future: what will be discussed to most events in the main at Wigtown Book Festival 2038? programme for free, whether Should we fear or embrace the next you are a student or not? two decades of change? 1996 Big Wig 2018 Big Introducing B Big Wig, the new face of Wig Wigtown’s children’s book festival, which has had a 20th-anniversary makeover. Drawn by the illustrator Claudia Boldt, the Four times a year, Britain’s most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new legendary beast is large, hairy, fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from around the world. friendlier than the related Yeti, and (above all) inquisitive. It can Purchase tickets to any Wigtown Book Festival event and receive a 50% discount on a usually be found in the forest year’s digital subscription to Granta. That’s four new issues, plus over 140 back issues in land of Wigtownshire. Some the archive, for just £6. people even claim that the ancient settlement of Wigtown takes its name Big Wig, though this cannot be verified.      6 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 7 Picture Hooks The Museum festival An exhibition of artwork by emerging of Book Town 2018 illustrators who have been mentored Curiosities by their more established colleagues County Buildings, as they create a picture book. The show Nature Room | free includes work by Kirsti Beautyman Throughout the festival, (mentored by Helen Stephens), Hlin we will be collecting Davidsdottir (mentored by Ross exhibits for this temporary Collins), Anders Frang (mentored by museum which will, in a Steve Anthony), Hazel Dunn (mentored very roundabout way, tell by Patrick Benson) and Rachel Everitt the story of the Book Town (mentored by Debi Gliori). and festival. We welcome Craigard Gallery, 13 North Main Street. objects and stories alike Daily 10am-5pm - sublime and ridiculous, wonderful and weird. Our curators will be in the Nature Room every day to receive submissions: look out for the timetable. We’ll also post the best of our finds online.

Kirkcudbright Festival of Light Miniature Books Take a walk around Wigtown’s town Beautifully illustrated and bound VISUAL ARTS square as darkness falls to get a miniature books, all less than three hint of the installations that will inches tall, many less than one inch, If These Walls Could Talk illuminate Galloway’s Artists’ Town all perfectly legible. If a town could speak, what might during its first Festival of Light from Wigtown Society of Friends Meeting it say? To celebrate Wigtown’s 20 5-14 October. Room, off South Main Street. Mon years as a Book Town, Astrid Jaekel 24-Sat 29 Sept. Daily 10am-4pm. has been commissioned to turn Marbling building facades in the town square An exhibition of work by artist Gina into giant canvases, enlisting the Lawson. Marbling workshops for help of writer Jessica Fox. adults and children will take place in Old stories, rumours and myths the marquee throughout the festival. about the Book Town and its Beyond the Ice Applegarth Garden, Harbour Road. surrounds will be brought to life In late 2017 and early 2018, Saskia Daily 10am-5pm. in the visual form of outdoor Coulson and Colin Tennant (who wallpaper. Grab a map to guide has photographed the festival for a you around this playful large-scale, decade) travelled to the bottom of the installation and learn the history of world to capture the pristine beauty the town, told from a bricks-and- of Antarctica, South Georgia and mortar point of view. the Falkland Islands. This exhibition Astrid Jaekel was Spring Fling of photography and film is the Artist in Residence at the 2013 book result of months exploring rugged festival, where she was responsible landscapes and unpredictable seas, for the Windows of Wigtown and documenting the extraordinary project, which spectacularly filled behaviour of the wildlife. The images Editions: The Process of Print the panes of the County Buildings capture awesome beauty, but also How are prints made? This new show, curated specially for Wigtown Book with stories of local people. She remind us of our fragility in the face of Festival, explains. Printmaking and bookbinding workshops will accompany currently teaches illustration at climate change. the exhibition throughout the festival. Edinburgh College of Art. 4 North Main Street. Daily 10am-5pm Craigard Gallery, 13 North Main Street. Daily 10am-5pm 8 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 9 Friday 21 September Friday 21 September

Book Town, award-winning novelist and musician Louis de Bernières (ﬂute, mandolin, guitar and clarinet) teams up with Ben Please and Beth Porter of The Bookshop Band for an hour of musical magic. [008] Sponsored by SW Audio

6.30PM Stuart Kelly The Minister and the Murderer Wigtown Parish Church | £7 In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a THE programme 2018 minister in the Church of Scotland Isabel Hardman, 5pm, Friday 21 September – titillating the tabloids and dividing “failure”, whom some believe about his stand-alone follow-up to the national opinion. Stuart Kelly inspired the creation of Baron von popular Ardnish Was Home. [003]. 3.30PM the least trusted professional group discusses his remarkable account Münchausen. [001] Supported by R Barclay Nicola Sturgeon by the UK public. Why? Isabel of the affair. Part detective story, Sponsored by W A Barclay A Life in Books Hardman, assistant editor of The part memoir, it is also a moving 2PM Festival Marquee | £12 Spectator and presenter of BBC meditation on what it means to 12.30PM OUT & ABOUT “Books are amongst my very Radio 4’s The Week in Westminster, forgive and a fascinating alternative John Gray A Book Town Tour favourite things in life,” says Nicola lifts the lid on the strange world of history of the Kirk. [009] Seven Types of Atheism Meet by County Buildings | £5 Sturgeon. But which books and UK politics, asking how we end up Supported by the Faculty of Advocates Festival Marquee | £9 Join us on a guided tour of what has Scotland’s First Minister with representatives with whom we One of Britain’s leading Wigtown and its bookshops, meet learned from them? From Muriel are so unhappy and what can be 8PM philosophers talks about the the booksellers, and learn a little of Spark to John Boyne, she reveals done to change things. [006] Festival Fireworks importance of atheism in the how it became Scotland’s National the texts that have inspired and Sponsored by Merrick Real Estate Mercat Cross, Town Square | free modern world, revealing a tradition, Book Town. Surprises await. [004] shaped her. Damian Barr, author The Kirkcudbright and District Pipe in many ways as rich as religion Sponsored by The Biggest Little Store in Town of Maggie and Me and host of the 5PM Band leads the way from the Mercat itself, and deeply entwined with Literary Salon at The Savoy, tries to Charles E McGarry Cross to Bayview Nursery for what is often crudely seen as its read between the lines. [916] The Shadow of the Black Earl ﬁreworks over Wigtown Bay. [010] “opposite”. John Gray is Emeritus McNeillie Tent | £7 By kind permission of Bayview Nursery Professor of European Thought at 3.30PM Crime wave strikes south-west the London School of Economics. Alan Taylor Scotland. Dapper psychic police 8.30PM Charles E McGarry, 5pm, Friday 21 September His major books include Straw Appointment in Arezzo inspector Leo Moran recovers from Twentieth Dogs, Black Mass and The Silence of County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 a bereavement at a Galloway stately Birthday Party 11AM Animals. [002] Muriel Spark’s wily masterpieces home. But a budding romance is Festival Marquee Ted Cowan have been the subject of a year of disrupted by his visions of a missing Speakers, sponsors, Friends, Arctic Failure: John Ross of 2PM celebration. But what was the woman local girl and the discovery of an volunteers, ambassadors and donors Stranraer, 1818 Angus MacDonald who gave birth to them really like? ancient evil. Charles McGarry talks are warmly invited to celebrate. County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 We Fought for Ardnish Her friend, the journalist Alan Taylor, about his delicious mystery series To become a Friend, phone Wigtownshire’s John Ross should County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 tells all in his charming, indiscrete and embracing the ﬁner things in life. [007] 01988 402036 or write to mail@ have been the man to discover Sent on an alpine mission in the affectionate memoir. [005] wigtownbookfestival.com. [011] the Northwest Passage. But his second world war, a young Lovat Sponsored by The Bookshop 6.30PM Sponsored by Corney & Barrow 1818 expedition turned back Scout falls for a French-Canadian MUSIC after he was misled by a mirage, special forces operative. When 5PM Louis de Bernières 9.30PM appearing to show mountains she is captured he fears the worst, Isabel Hardman & The Bookshop Band Book at Bedtime in his way. Ted Cowan, Glasgow until a posting to Canada leads to Why We Get the A Birthday Concert The Open Book | free University’s Emeritus Professor remarkable news. A former soldier Wrong Politicians County Buildings, Main Hall | £9 Wind down with bedtime readings of Scottish History, considers the turned entrepreneur and now County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 To celebrate the festival’s 20th inspired by the festival’s themes. life of Galloway’s most successful novelist, Angus MacDonald talks John Gray, 12.30pm, Friday 21 September Politicians are consistently voted birthday, and 20 years of Scotland’s Hot chocolate provided. [012] 10 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 11 Saturday 22 September Saturday 22 September

9.30AM Mrs Hancock marks the arrival 1.30PM Book Town Breakfast of a wonderful new voice. Set in Louis de Bernières Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 1780s London, it’s a rollicking tale So Much Life Left Over Who’s on the sofa today with about desire and ambition. Join us Festival Marquee | £8 The Bookshop Band? Coffee for a conversation ranging from In his major new novel, So Much and pastries provided. [101] mermaids and madams to the Life Left Over, Louis de Bernières importance of optimism. [S] [109] transports readers to 1920s Ceylon, 9.30AM where Rosie and Daniel have moved OUT & ABOUT 12 NOON with their daughter to start a new A Wigtown Walk Morten Strøksnes life. But in precarious interwar Meet by County Buildings | £5 Shark Drunk times, little is straightforward. Take a walking tour through Wigtown’s McNeillie Tent | £7 The author deploys his trademark past in the company of local Shark Drunk is the true story of blend of humour and tragedy historian Donna Brewster, author Finlay Wilson, 10.30am, Saturday 22 September two men in a very small boat on to craft a story as captivating as of The House That Sugar Built. [102] the trail of a very big fish. It’s also Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. “Richly the origins of today’s broadcast a tale of obsession, enchantment enjoyable... it is written with such 10.30AM culture. The annual lecture celebrates and adventure, and a love song to vitality,” Allan Massie. [112] THE MAGNUSSON LECTURE the life and reflects the interests Morten Strøksnes, 12 noon, Saturday 22 September the sea. Multiple award-winning Sponsored by Caird Leisure Ltd Edward Stourton of the academic and broadcaster Norwegian writer Morten Strøksnes Auntie’s War Magnus Magnusson. [104] how the world reacts in the face of a talks about his acclaimed book. A Festival Marquee | £12 Supported by Faodail & Priory Antiques violent tragedy. [106] BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. The BBC is a unique institution. Love “Deserves to be read widely,” it or hate it, it has reflected our lives 10.30AM 10.30AM James Rebanks. [110] and told our stories, no more so Finlay Wilson Undiscovered Treasures Sponsored by Vogue Windows than during the second world war. Kilted Yoga: Yoga Laid Bare The Print Room | free Broadcaster, columnist and author County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 What hidden treasures lie in 12 NOON Ed Stourton offers a love letter to a “Apparently there is something Stranraer Museum? For this little Hugh McMillan golden age of radio and considers about the recipe of beards, kilts, book, writers were invited to Heliopolis butts and the Scottish Highlands examine and respond to some of The Print Room | £7 10.30AM - 4PM DROP-IN that just works,” says Finlay Wilson. the fascinating artefacts. Come and The poems in Hugh McMillan’s new The Bookbinder It appears so. His video of a yoga hear what they discovered. [107] collection range from his kitchen session in a Perthshire forest has Supported by C Barr table to Greece, St Petersburg and County Buildings, been downloaded more than 50 Mars. An audience favourite since Nature Room | free Imogen Hermes Gowar, 12 noon, Saturday 22 September A former production manager million times. Not bad for a man who 12 NOON his appearance at the first Wigtown at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, once struggled to stand because Sue Black Book Festival in 1999, he continues Christian Ribbens began book- of the pain in his legs. Join him for All That Remains to find the universal in the local and binding as a hobby. Now he some basic poses as he talks about Festival Marquee | £8 the local in the universal. [111] Louis de Bernières, 1.30pm, Saturday 22 September lovingly repairs antique volumes his triumph over adversity. [S] [105] Professor Dame Sue Black is one of for clients around the UK. Drop Sponsored by Five Kingdoms Brewery the world’s leading anatomists and Sue Black, 12 noon, Saturday 22 September in for a chat as he demonstrates forensic anthropologists. She talks his rare craft. [103] 10.30AM about her gripping – and strangely Claire Askew life-affirming – account of a career All the Hidden Truths staring death in the face, from war LIVE SURTITLES McNeillie Tent | £7 crime investigations in Kosovo to In association with StageTEXT, Pre-publication, poet Claire Askew’s the Indian Ocean tsunami. [108] we are providing live subtitles debut novel won the Lucy Cavendish Sponsored by ReadingLasses for people with hearing loss Fiction prize and was subject of a on Saturday 22 and Sunday fierce auction. All the Hidden Truths 12 NOON 23 September in the County begins with a school shooting in Imogen Hermes Gowar Buildings, Main Hall. Surtitled events are marked [S] in listings. Edinburgh. We know who did it. But The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock www.stagetext.org. why? Askew brilliantly portrays three County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 Supported by the Castansa Trust women seeking answers. A moving Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize study of forgiveness, empathy and Edward Stourton, 10.30am, Saturday 22 September for Fiction, The Mermaid and 12 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 13 Saturday 22 September Saturday 22 September

1.30PM 4.30PM 4.30PM Suzanne O’Sullivan Charlotte Higgins Mick Kitson Brainstorm: Detective Stories Red Thread: On Mazes Sal from the World of Neurology & Labyrinths McNeillie Tent | £7 County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 Sal is the tale of two half-sisters, Neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan’s first Charlotte Higgins explores our Sal and Peppa, who run away to book, It’s All in Your Head, won the ancient fascination with mazes the Galloway Forest to escape their Wellcome Prize. In Brainstorm, she and labyrinths, looking on their troubled home. Beautifully told in turns her attention again to the oddity significance in mythology, literature the older girl’s voice, it’s a story of of our brains. From a man who sees and life. The speaker is chief culture physical and mental survival, as well cartoon characters running across writer of the Guardian. Her previous as sisterly love. Journalist turned the room, to a girl who turns into a books include the acclaimed Under teacher Mick Kitson talks about why, ragdoll when she thinks of moving, Another Sky: Journeys in Roman fed up with the curriculum, he set out O’Sullivan’s case studies show the Europe’s Future , Britain, which was shortlisted to write something he would want to infinite complexity of “the universe’s 3pm, Saturday 22 September for awards including the Samuel teach, and how he found inspiration most complex structure”. [S] [113] Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize in south-west Scotland. [121] Supported by Barbara Moore Jessica Pidsley plays Leslie Jamison, Charlotte Higgins, 4.30pm, Saturday 22 September for non-fiction. [S] [120] Sponsored by Xtrastep Ltd trying to make sense of it all. [114] 1.30PM 3PM 6PM GRANTA BOOKS AND STORY MACHINE 1.30PM Lucy Mangan Gavin Francis PRODUCTIONS PRESENT Southlight 24 Launch Bookworm: A Memoir of Shapeshifters Whiskey & Ink The Print Room | free Childhood Reading Festival Marquee | £7 McNeillie Tent | £7 Join us to launch the new edition of McNeillie Tent | £8 Award-winning writer and doctor A brilliant, funny and moving Dumfries & Galloway’s new-writing When Lucy Mangan was little, Gavin Francis knows that to live means one-woman show based on New magazine, featuring poetry, short stories were all. As she was whisked to change, as we grow, heal, learn and Yorker essayist Leslie Jamison’s book stories, essay and opinion. [115] away to Narnia and Wonderland, age. He looks at the transformations The Recovering: Intoxication and Its new worlds opened up, casting light that trace the arc of human life, Aftermath. Welcome to an AA meeting 3PM on the complexities of this one. In from inevitabilities, such as puberty like no other, as famous writers PANEL Bookworm, she has revisited her or menopause, to milestones like including Stephen King, Jean Rhys Europe’s Future childhood reading with wit, love pregnancy. Drawing not only on case and David Foster Wallace discuss Festival Marquee | £8 and gratitude and invites you studies, but on history, art, literature whether literary greatness really What will Europe look like in twenty to do the same. [118] and myth, he shows that humanity’s exists at the bottom of a bottle. years’ time? Will the EU resemble essence is mutability. [122] a United States of Europe or was 4.30PM Brexit the canary in the coalmine? Shaun Bythell By 2038, will divergent national Gavin Francis, 6pm, Saturday 22 September The Diary of a economies, fears about mass Bookseller: One Year On immigration and right-wing populism 3PM Festival Marquee | £8 have put paid to the dream of “ever Miranda Kaufmann Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell’s closer union”? In this discussion, we Black Tudors diary paints a hilarious portrait listen to expert voices from across County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 of one grumpy secondhand the continent. Our panel includes Think you know the Tudors? bookseller, his mutinous staff, Richard Lewis from the Institute of Think again. Shortlisted for the infuriating customers and even European Studies in Brussels; Wolfson History Prize, Black Tudors more annoying cat. Since its Marie Rosenkranz, research uncovers extraordinary tales of launch at the 2017 festival, associate at the Berlin-based think free Africans living in Renaissance it’s been translated into 18 tank, the European Democracy Britain. Their life stories challenge languages, hit New Zealand’s Lab; and Dr Marco Siddi of the traditional narratives about slavery, bestseller charts and become Finnish Institute of International revealing our island’s multicultural a cult Russian hit. He talks Affairs. Chaired by the political history. Miranda Kaufmann is a about his memoir and a year commentator and former Scotsman Senior Research Fellow at the to remember. [119] editor, Iain Martin. [116] University of London’s Institute of Sponsored by Galloway Mick Kitson, 4.30pm, Saturday 22 September Supported by Royal Bank of Scotland Commonwealth Studies. [S] [117] Lodge Preserves Lucy Mangan, 3pm, Saturday 22 September Suzanne O’Sullivan, 1.30pm, Saturday 22 September 14 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 15 Saturday 22 September

Steve Bonham, 7.30pm, Saturday 22 September 7.30PM THEATRE Gulliver Returns GALLOWAY HOUSE ESTATE Swallow Theatre, Ravenstone | £13.50 Lil’s husband, Lem, has lost himself in Gulliver’s Travels. Whatever the cost, she must ﬁnd a way to drag him out of his fantasy. Dawn State Theatre magically rips up and reassembles Jonathan Swift’s satirical masterpiece. 75 min. [127]

8.30PM Wigtown’s Got Talent 6PM Festival Marquee | £6 Ken Ilgunas The 20th-anniversary edition of Four beautiful holiday cottages on a coastal estate in Galloway. This Land Is Our Land the annual talent show brings new County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 faces and some blasts from the Perfect for beachcombers, bird-watchers and bookworms America was once a continent of past. Visitors, locals and authors are uninterrupted horizons. Now more invited to compete for the Golden www.gallowayhouseestate.co.uk than a billion acres of pasture and Pencil. Do you have a talent that woodland, and swathes of coastline, could entertain, amuse or amaze? are closed to the public. An obsessive If so please ring 01988 403222 or hitchhiker and roamer, Ken Ilgunas email claire@wigtownbookfestival. looks back to the unrestrained com. To celebrate 20 years, one 19th-century and discusses how hundred tickets are available free. Art by Atcheson Scotland’s right-to-roam law is Only obtainable in person from the Co Co Co inspiring a new US movement. [123] box office. First come, first served Davy Brown Artist Sponsored by Visit South West Scotland (max 2 per household). [128] Drumrae Designs Sponsored by 3b construction Emily’s Designs 6PM Five Kingdoms Brewery The Five-Foot Shelf Live 9.30PM Gallovidian Liqueurs McNeillie Tent | £6 Ken Ilgunas, 6pm, Saturday 22 September OUT & ABOUT Galloway Chillies If you only had a five-foot bookshelf RSPB Batwalk Galloway in Pencil to contain all the knowledge required Wigtown at this year’s festival. Meet Meet by County Buildings | £5 KGR Glass Design for a full and happy life, what books and mingle. Refreshments provided. A gentle walk in search of Kirsty Muir Jewellery would you put on it? Ian Sansom [125] Wigtown’s bats in the company of Light and Colour Studio and Conor Garrett offer a live RSPB ranger Paul Tarling. [129] Lintie Furniture version of their BBC Radio 4 show, 7.30PM Sponsored by RSPB Livin the Dream enlisting help from special guests. MUSIC Steve Bonham Pun Patchworks Bring your own essential read. [124] Gone To Look for America 9.30PM Quirky Paintbrush The Print Room | £6 Book at Bedtime RSPB 7.30PM Inspired by a chance remark from The Open Book | free Saucy Desserts Outside the County Buildings Astrid Jaekel a singer-songwriter appearing with Bedtime stories and hot chocolate Scoish Art Scapes Open Studio Billy Bragg, “vagabond philosopher” in a friendly atmosphere. [130] Solway Silver Lampshades Open 10am-5pm / 6.30pm at weekends County Buildings, Steve Bonham set off on a literal The Buerfly and Toadstool Stalls subject to change on a daily basis Nature Room | free and metaphorical exploration of Free for under 26s The Damn Fine Cheese Company Festival-goers who are under 26 can Join artist Astrid Jaekel and writer myth, music and the moonshine of get free tickets to almost all events in The Galloway Fudge Company For further information, please visit: Jessica Fox, whose If These Walls America. The outcome is a funny, the main programme. Book by phone Wigtown Festival Company www.facebook.com/TheKistWigtown or at the box office. Just bring proof of Could Talk project is spectacularly moving, idiosyncratic collection of age on collection. transforming the streetscape of words and songs. [126] 16 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 17 Sunday 23 September Sunday 23 September

Helen Pankhurst, 9.30AM 12 noon, Sunday 23 September collected in one place. decades of transformation have 1.30PM Book Town Breakfast Tom Pow, Reid’s friend and the followed. So has the nation lived up Alex Beard Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 editor of this new volume, talks to Alasdair Gray’s exhortation, etched Natural Born Learners Who’s on the sofa today with about the life and work of a into the stone of Holyrood: “Work as County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 The Bookshop Band? Coffee Galloway original – New Yorker if you live in the early days of a better We are what we learn: education and pastries provided. [201] writer, intimate of Borges and nation”? Who better to ask than predicts future wealth, happiness Neruda, nemesis of Robert Graves writers? Our panel includes novelists and even longevity. So what’s the 10AM (whose girlfriend he eloped with) Candia McWilliam (Debatable magic formula for getting it right? OUT & ABOUT and itchy-footed citizen of the Land) and James Robertson (And Educational expert Alex Beard Festival Fun Run world, never happier than when the Land Lay Still) and children’s searched the globe for answers, Meet by County Buildings | free travelling light. [S] [207] author and illustrator Vivian French finding out what really happens at Join writers and other runners for Supported by Anne Brown (winner of the Scottish Book Trust Finnish schools, taking lessons from the annual 5km fun run. [202] Outstanding Achievement Award). a robot and visiting South Korea’s 12 NOON Chaired by Stuart Kelly. [210] exam factories. His discoveries are 10.30AM 10.30AM MAN BOOKER PRIZE AND STORYORY Sponsored by ReadingLasses likely to surprise you. [S] [211] THE WHITHORN TRUST LECTURE Dean Nelson MACHINE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTNT Sponsored by Five Kingdoms Brewery David Clarke The Indian Art Michael K The Myth of of Problem Solving McNeillie Tent | £7 1.30PM Scotland’s Dark Age McNeillie Tent | £6 A live show based upon Life and Edward Wilson-Lee County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 What do the Indian mission to Times of Michael K by J M Coetzee, The Catalogue of Why is Scotland so often absent Mars, the world’s cheapest car winner of the Man Booker Prize in Shipwrecked Books from studies of Britain and Europe and the hybrid bullock-cart Enfield 1983. In a war-torn country, Michael McNeillie Tent | £7 in the early medieval period? The motorbike have in common? They’re K leaves home to seek safety. As he Edward Wilson-Lee discusses Keeper of Archaeology at the all examples of jugaad, the Indian walks, he asks whether we can live the remarkable life of Hernando National Museums of Scotland, art of the rough-and-ready quick a life of dignity when lies, division, Columbus, son of Christopher, David Clarke, sheds light on an age fix. Dean Nelson, former south-east and repression surround us? and his creation of the first great that is far less “dark” than was once Asia correspondent for the Daily Featuring film and performance, this universal library in the age of assumed. [S] [203] Telegraph and Sunday Times, talks is a powerful staging of a classic printing. An explorer himself, about a philosophy of life that has novel by one of the era’s best who spent a year shipwrecked off 10.30AM - 4PM DROP-IN transformed India, and which offers writers. [208] Jamaica, Hernando associated The Bookbinder inspiration to us all. [205] with Thomas More, Erasmus, and County Buildings, 12 NOON Ferdinand and Isabella. He was also Nature Room | free 12 NOON Alan & Susan Windram almost entirely responsible for his A former production manager Helen Pankhurst Tom Pow, 12 noon, Sunday 23 September Children’s Publishing Surgery father’s legend. [212] at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, Deeds Not Words The Print Room | £5 Edward Wilson-Lee, 1.30pm, Sunday 23 September Sponsored by Ast & Red Christian Ribbens began book- Festival Marquee | £8 For most writers, the publishing binding as a hobby. Now he A hundred years since women industry remains a tough nut to lovingly repairs antique volumes got the vote, Helen Pankhurst – crack and publishing for children for clients around the UK. Drop great-granddaughter of suffragette is no different. Alan and Susan in for a chat as he demonstrates leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a Windram, the team behind Little his rare craft. [204] leading women’s rights campaigner Door Books, offer guidance on how – charts how women’s lives have to take your idea from the drawing changed since and offers powerful board to the bookcase. [209] LIVE SURTITLES arguments for the way forward. [206] In association with StageTEXT, Supported by Judith Brown 1.30PM PANEL we are providing live subtitles for people with hearing loss 12 NOON The Changing on Saturday 22 and Sunday Tom Pow Face of Scotland 23 September in the County Barefoot: The Collected Poems Festival Marquee | £9 Buildings, Main Hall. Surtitled events are marked [S] in listings. of Alastair Reid In 1998, Wigtown became www.stagetext.org. County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Scotland’s Book Town and the Supported by the Castansa Trust For the first time, the poems of Scotland Act established a devolved Andy Goldsworthy, 4.30pm, Sunday 23 September the late Alastair Reid have been Alex Beard, 1.30pm, Sunday 23 September parliament in Edinburgh. Two 18 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 19 Sunday 23 September Sunday 23 September

3PM 4.30PM 7.30PM Peter Ross Andy Goldsworthy It Shouldn’t The Passion of Harry Bingo Leaning into the Wind Happen to a Festival Marquee | £8 Festival Marquee | £9 Book Festival Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in Internationally renowned sculptor, The Print Room | £6 2015, Peter Ross returns with more environmentalist and photographer Exploding dinner tables, missed unlikely dispatches from contemporary Andy Goldsworthy has magically flights and the author who ended up Scotland (and the odd foray across the transformed landscapes around the in the cells: we take a lighthearted border). One of life’s great observers, world, from his Dumfriesshire home romp through some of the mishaps he has the knack of capturing others to San Francisco, New York and Rio. of festivals past. [224] with humour and empathy – from He talks about his remarkable body herring queens and drag queens to of work, the subject of German 7.30PM Harry Bingo himself, still following director Thomas Riedelsheimer’s THEATRE Partick Thistle in his nineties. [213] visually spectacular new film Gulliver Returns Leaning Into the Wind. (See 7.30pm Swallow Theatre, Clare Balding, 6pm, Sunday 23 September 3PM for film details.) [217] Ravenstone | £13.50 Aida Edemariam Sponsored by Galloway House Estate See Sat 22 Sept, 7.30pm. [225] The Wife’s Tale 6PM | £7 4.30PM 8.30PM County Buildings, Main Hall Muriel Spark’s Women, 4.30pm, Sunday 23 September Malachy Tallack Aida Edemariam discusses Muriel Spark’s Women The Valley at the MUSIC her acclaimed book about her Norris explains their unique charms County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Centre of the World The Bevvy Sisters Ethiopian grandmother. Aged and launches the second of his Nowhere was Muriel Spark’s genius County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Festival Marquee | £8 eight, Yetemengu was married to guides to the range, which covers for displaying the contradictions Set on the rugged west coast of The classic sister act, who have a clergyman. Her long life spanned Minnigaff. [215] and complexities of human emotion Shetland, in a community faced worked with everyone from Eddi Ethiopia’s most tumultuous years, greater than in her depiction of her with extinction, The Valley at the Reader to Peggy Seeger, run the encompassing Fascist occupation, 3PM own sex. From The Abbess of Crewe Centre of the World is a tale of love gamut from high-energy golden oldies Allied bombardment, Haile Selassie, MUSIC to The Girls of Slender Means, we and grief, family and inheritance, to soulful self-penned ballads. [226] famine, revolution and civil war. This The Galloway Consort celebrate the witty, ingenious, rapid change and an age-old way Sponsored by SW Audio inspiring, often heartbreaking story, Fragments inspiring, vain and self-deluding of life. Malachy Tallack, author of offers a multilayered portrait of a Sacred Heart, South Main St | £7 heroines of one of Scotland’s 60 Degrees North, talks about his 9.30PM fascinating nation. [S] [214] “Simplicity is the ultimate greatest writers. Our panel includes acclaimed first novel. [221] Book at Bedtime sophistication”, Leonardo da Vinci. author and critic Lesley McDowell; Sponsored by Five Kingdoms Brewery The Open Book | free 3PM The Galloway Consort return with intellectual historian and Professor Stories and hot chocolate. [227] Stephen Norris another concert of renaissance of English Literature, Durham 6.30PM The Galloway Hills music and text. Move into a gentler University, Patricia Waugh; and Diary of a Bookseller Live The Print Room | £6 sound world of viols and recorders, Gail Wylie, former secretary of the The Bookshop | £7 The Galloway Hills are the forgotten renaissance guitar and the soft Muriel Spark Society. [S] [218] Shaun Bythell’s warts-and-all Aida Edemariam, 3pm, Sunday 23 September jewel in Scotland’s mountain tones of 16th-century chanson and Sponsored by Physgill Farm account of bookselling brought treasure house. Journalist Stephen madrigal. [216] 6PM to life. Find music, humour and 4.30PM Clare Balding surprises among the shelves. With Malachy Tallack, 6pm, Sunday 23 September Matt Hopwood Animals, Children and The Bookshop Band. [222] A Human Love Story other Rambles McNeillie Tent | £7 Festival Marquee | £12 7.30PM Matt Hopwood travelled more than She’s a former amateur jockey, FILM 1,500 miles on foot across the UK broadcaster, bestselling memoirist Leaning into the Wind to get people to tell him their stories and champion of ramblers Newton Stewart Cinema | £6 of love in all its forms, while relying everywhere. Now Clare Balding Sixteen years after his Rivers and on strangers’ kindness for shelter. has turned her hand to writing Tides documentary, director Thomas He talks about what he found and for children – with predictably Riedelsheimer offers another how weaving a web of connection impressive results. A first-class vibrant tour through the work of the is a powerful tool for change. “A raconteur, she talks about her latest environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy delicately woven tapestry of human adventures on page and path. [220] (see 4.30pm). 97 min. [223] life,” Clare Balding. [219] Sponsored by Fight for Sight Sponsored by Craigard Gallery Peter Ross, 3pm, Sunday 23 September 20 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 21 Monday 24 September Monday 24 September

James MacMillan, 6pm, Monday 24 September that has haunted the continent’s 7.30PM art and folklore and influenced its FILM The Prime history. [303] of Miss Jean Brodie Sponsored by RSPB The MUGA | £6 A magical outdoor screening of 12 NOON the 1969 version of Muriel Spark’s Emma Healey classic starring Maggie Smith. Whistle in the Dark Cert: 12. 116 min. [312] McNeillie Tent | £7 The author of the Costa Award- 7.30PM winning Elizabeth Is Missing A Persian Supper discusses her bestselling new novel, The Old Manse, Harbour Rd | £30 a compelling mystery exploring the Join us for a gourmet supper Iranian emotional minefield of family life. style with poet Marjorie Lotfi When a 15-year-old girl is found Gill, who will be talking about her after vanishing for four days, she experience of growing up in Tehran will not say what happened. Can her 1.30PM and fleeing the Iranian revolution, distraught mother find out? [304] Nina Caplan the starting point for her new Sponsored by S Cronnie Family Butchers The Wandering Vine collection, Refuge. [313] Nina Caplan, 1.30pm, Monday 24 September McNeillie Tent | £9 (inc tasting) 1.30PM What did the Romans ever do for Isla Dewar, 4.30pm, Monday 24 September 7.30PM 9.30AM Duncan Barrett us? Well, there’s wine. Nina Caplan Diary of a Bookseller Live Book Town Breakfast Hitler’s British Isles took a meandering journey from 4.30PM The Bookshop | £7 Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Britain to Rome, exploring European Isla Dewar Shaun Bythell’s memoir brought to Which guests are on the sofa today Only one part of the UK experienced culture and Jewish identity through It Takes One To Know One life. See Sun 23 Sept, 6.30pm. [314] with The Bookshop Band? Coffee life under German rule – the a shared love of the grape. She McNeillie Tent | £7 Repeated at 8.30pm tonight. [315] and pastries provided. [301] Channel Islands. Drawing on more discusses her vintage blend of The bestselling author of Women than 100 interviews of islanders, travelogue, wine-writing and Talking Dirty introduces her newest 7.30PM 10.30AM Sunday Times bestselling author memoir and invites the audience to novel about a single mother in THEATRE Damian Le Bas Duncan Barrett reveals a tale that is share a bottle. [306] 1970s Edinburgh who takes a The Time Machine The Stopping Places equally terrifying and inspiring, and Sponsored by The Pheasant heartbreaking job at a missing Swallow Theatre, County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 offers a vision of what Nazi Britain persons bureau owned by a man Ravenstone | £14.50 Inspired by his great-grandmother’s might have been like. [305] 3PM abducted as a baby. [310] HG Wells’ classic reinterpreted. See Romani stories, Damian Le Bas Anthony Adeane Sponsored by The Steam Packet Inn Tue 25 Sept, 7.30pm. [316] journeyed round Britain to discover Out of Thin Air the old stopping places known only County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Susan Calman, 4.30pm, Monday 24 September 6PM to travellers. He talks about his Iceland 1974: two men vanish. James MacMillan quest to square the circle between Six suspects admit murder. Yet change her life? She talks about her Notes on a Life the romanticised Gypsies of old and their confessions are false. Why? “Calmanifesto of Happiness”. [308] Festival Marquee | £8 their much-maligned descendants. Anthony Adeane talks about his Sponsored by Cally Palace Hotel Since his requiem The Confession “A pure delight,” Sunday Times [302] compelling true-crime classic, of Isobel Gowdie boldly announced Sponsored by Motorwise played out against extreme weather 4.30PM his talent at the Proms in 1990, Sir and strange folklore, where over Guy Stagg James MacMillan has established 12 NOON eighty per cent of people believe The Crossway himself as Scotland’s greatest living Donald S Murray elves might exist. [307] County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 classical composer – whose work The Dark Stuff In 2013, Guy Stagg made a 10-month, includes a mass for the Pope at County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 4.30PM 5,500 kilometre pilgrimage from Bellahouston Park, a cello concerto Donald Murray grew up playing, Susan Calman Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a for Rostropovich and a fanfare for then working, on the moors of Sunny Side Up non-believer, he began the journey the Scottish Parliament. He has also Lewis. The author of the classic Festival Marquee | £12 after suffering several years of mental been a critic of Scotland’s cultural Herring Tales discusses his masterful Comedian Susan Calman danced illness, hoping the ritual would heal establishment, defender of the place exploration of Europe’s peatlands, a into the UK’s hearts on Strictly him. He talks about his acclaimed of religion in secular society and a love letter to a threatened landscape Emma Healey, 12 noon, Monday 24 September Come Dancing, but how did it account of his adventure. [309] vocal foe of sectarianism. [311] Damian Le Bas, 10.30am, Monday 24 September 22 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 23 Tuesday 25 September Tuesday 25 September

9.30AM faced suspicious fishermen, red tape 4.30PM 7.30PM Book Town Breakfast and grumpy engineers. She shares Stuart Cosgrove FILM Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 her entertaining account of hi-jinks, Memphis 68 The Happy Prince Music and chat from The Highlanders and the high seas. [403] County Buildings, Main Hall | £6 County Buildings, Supper Room | £6 Bookshop Band and guests. [401] Broadcaster Stuart Cosgrove talks Rupert Everett directs and stars in 12 NOON about the second part of his dazzling this fresh new take on Oscar Wilde’s 10.30AM Walter Reid non-fiction trilogy. Memphis 68 tells last days. Cert 15. 105 min. [412] Amelia Dalton Five Days from Defeat the story of a crucial moment in US Mistress and Commander County Buildings, Main Hall | £6 history through the music of Southern 7.30PM County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 For the Allies in the first world war, Soul. It’s a tale defined by the Stuart Kelly’s Weary of a life of grouse moors victory was anything but a foregone deaths of Otis Redding and Martin Literary Pub Quiz and hunt balls, Yorkshirewoman conclusion. In March 1918, Germany Luther King, played out against the Craft, 30 South Main St | free Amelia Dalton naively threw herself launched one of the conflict’s most soundtrack of Stax records. There’s The infamous pub quiz takes its into converting a Scottish deep sea ferocious offensives, splitting the even a walk-on role for a young Black theme from our 20th-anniversary trawler into a holiday cruiser. But French and British, and driving the Panther, Samuel L Jackson. [408] celebrations. [413] what began as a nautical love affair latter back towards the Channel Sponsored by Stranraer & Wigtownshire became a battle to stay afloat, as she ports. Walter Reid talks about his Free Press 7.30PM THEATRE insightful account of one of history’s Mary Gladstone, 6pm, Tuesday 25 September great “what if?” moments. [404] 4.30PM Stuart Cosgrove, 4.30pm, Tuesday 25 September The Time Machine for adults and children, including Oliver Thomson Swallow Theatre, 12 NOON The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Zealots 6PM Ravenstone | £14.50 Mandy Haggith and 2016’s critically acclaimed McNeillie Tent | £6 Mary Gladstone A Victorian time traveller finds The Walrus Mutterer The Heart’s Invisible Furies. He In the 1630s, a small group of The Moss of Cree: warnings in the future. Dryad Whithorn Roundhouse | £6 introduces his new novel, A Ladder religious zealots gathered in A Scottish Childhood Productions’ radical interpretation of The Walrus Mutterer tells the story to the Sky, the tale of a thieving St Andrews. Through their plotting, County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 the HG Wells’ classic. [414] of a young woman in Iron Age novelist who will stop at nothing to they would unleash half a Mary Gladstone talks about the Scotland who meets an Ancient get to the top of his profession. [407] century of bloody holy wars, in second part of her Highland Sea 9.30PM Greek explorer after she is abducted Sponsored by Penkiln Sawmill Co Ltd Scotland, Ireland and England, series, which tells the story of her Book at Bedtime by traders. Mandy Haggith introduces that would transform those nations’ childhood on a dairy farm by the The Open Book | free her thrilling new novel in the Iron fortunes. Oliver Thomson talks to River Cree. A tale of poachers and Wind down with bedtime readings Age-appropriate setting of Whithorn’s Stuart Kelly about his fresh take tramps, terrifying teachers and natural and hot chocolate. The perfect end Roundhouse. [405] on an age of civil strife. [409] dangers, it conjures a life of freedom to the day. [415] of which today’s children can only 1.30PM dream. [410] Karen Lloyd Sponsored by Craichlaw Estate Amelia Dalton, 10.30am, Tuesday 25 September The Blackbird Diaries County Buildings, Main Hall | £6 7.30PM 11AM Who hasn’t been captivated by Archie Macpherson OUT & ABOUT a blackbird on the lawn? In The Adventures in the Golden Age: Canoe Adventure Blackbird Diaries, Karen Lloyd – Scotland in the World Cup Meet at Old Place of author of The Gathering Tide – shares Finals 1974-1998 Mochrum | £14 the everyday magic of garden wildlife, Festival Marquee | £9 Join adventurer Robert Twigger as seen from her Lake District home. The voice of Scottish football, for a canoe and kayak trip round Winner of a Lakeland Award. [406] Archie Macpherson covered all 18 the islands in Mochrum Loch. of Scotland’s World Cup matches Robert is the author of 11 books 3PM from 1974 to 1998. He shares his including Voyageur: Across the John Boyne brilliantly entertaining account of Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark A Ladder to the Sky a golden age, from Brazil to Peru, Canoe and Micromastery. County Buildings, managerial rages to nocturnal Equipment provided; dress for Main Hall | £7 antics, and that last painful evening the conditions. [402] Born in Ireland in 1971, in France. “A magnificently By kind permission of Mochrum Estate John Boyne is the author of John Boyne, insightful read” Craig Brown [411] numerous bestselling books 3pm, Tuesday 25 September Karen Lloyd, 1.30pm, Tuesday 25 September Sponsored by James Hyslop Plumber Archie Macpherson, 7.30pm, Tuesday 25 September 24 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 25 Wednesday 26 September Wednesday 26 September

9.30AM all over the world – pasts could be 7.30PM Book Town Breakfast forgotten, names invented, fortunes FILM Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 made and lost. Paul French, author From Scotland with Love Music and chat with festival guests, of the bestselling Midnight in Peking, County Buildings, Supper Room | £6 hosted by Jessica Fox. [501] talks about his latest true-crime Virginia Heath’s joyful film brilliantly history. [507] edits together Scottish film archive 10.30AM to create a tale of love and loss, Nicholas Blincoe 3PM work and play, accompanied by the Bethlehem: Biography of a Town Julia Muir Watt transcendent music and lyrics of Festival Marquee | £7 Whithorn: An Economy of People King Creosote. Cert: U. 76 min. [513] Nicholas Blincoe lived in Bethlehem McNeillie Tent | £7 for over 20 years. He takes us down In 2012 and 2013, Julia Muir Watt 7.30PM the stone streets he knows intimately, interviewed 29 people, including the Stables Supper spanning 11,000 years of history poet Alastair Reid and the writer and Home Farm, Garlieston | £38 with tales of traders, crusaders and editor Andrew McNeillie, about life Join us for a three-course supper. This refugees, myth and religion. And he Christopher Baker, in Whithorn from the 1920s to the year’s guests of honour are Darryl 1.30pm, Wednesday 26 September looks at how the “little town” survives 1960s. She talks about her book, David and Peter Baker, who set up today, a hostage of the Israeli- which reveals a community changed South Africa’s Book Town. [514] Palestinian conflict, surrounded by and invaders, from the Beaker almost beyond recognition. [508] Israeli settlements. [502] people to the Anglo-Normans, such Supported by Mary Nicholson Nicholas Blincoe, 10.30am, Wednesday 26 September 7.30PM as Robert the Bruce’s forebears. THEATRE The Power 12 NOON From the Wars of Independence to 4.30PM 6PM Behind the Crone Andrew J McCulloch an era of peace after 1701, Andrew Richard Emerson The Making of Swallow Theatre, Dumfriesshire: A Frontier Region McCulloch offers the definitive guide Rhythm and Colour The Book Town Ravenstone | £12.50 County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 to Galloway’s neighbour. [504] County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Professor Artemis Turret (Alison Dumfriesshire has always been a Sponsored by Creebridge Vet Centre The Colourist John Duncan In 1998 Wigtown became Skilbeck) sets out to refute the gateway to Scotland for immigrants Fergusson is a key figure in Scottish Scotland’s Book Town after adage that “there are no good parts 12 NOON art history. But his lover Margaret winning a competition. In this in Shakespeare for older women”. Robert J Harris & Morris had equal claim to fame special, celebratory event, we use 60 min. [515] Anthony O’Neill in their lifetime. A suffragette, photographs and recordings as Castle Macnab & The Strange impresario and avant-garde dancer we bring together some of the key 9.30PM Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Seek who challenged conventional figures in the town’s transformation. Book at Bedtime McNeillie Tent | £7 attitudes to sexuality, she helped We also ask: what will the next The Open Book | free Robert J Harris’s novels daringly bring put the Côte d’Azur on the map, two decades hold for this unique The perfect end to the day. [516] back to life the characters of John cultivating a circle that included Ellen national institution? [511] Buchan; in The Strange Case of Dr Terry, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, F Supported by Allan & Sandra McDowall Paul French, 3pm, Wednesday 26 September Jekyll & Mr Seek, Edinburgh-based Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Pablo 12 NOON Australian Anthony O’Neill offers a tells a fascinating story. He talks Picasso and Ernest Hemingway. 6.30PM OUT & ABOUT sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s about Sir Edwin Landseer’s work Art historian Richard Emerson talks OUT & ABOUT A Pocket Pilgrimage – most famous tale. Two authors talk in the context of the 19th century, about his compelling new book. [509] Forest Adventure St Ninian’s Cave about stepping in the footsteps of the artist’s meteoric career, and Meet 11 North Main St | £25 Meet Glasserton Old Kirk | £5 their famous inspirations. [505] the painting’s often controversial 4.30PM (including camp supper) To mark the publication of a afterlife. [506] Polly Pullar Join writers and adventurers new guide to the ancient 1.30PM Sponsored by Hazel J L Smith Chartered Architect A Richness of Martens Robert Twigger (Big Snake) and Glasgow-Whithorn pilgrimage Christopher Baker McNeillie Tent | £7 Ken Ilgunas (Trespassing Across route, join us for a gentle walk The Monarch of the Glen 3PM Wildlife writer for Scottish Field America) for a sleepover at Culsharg from Glasserton Old Kirk to St County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Paul French magazine, Polly Pullar gives a rare Bothy in Galloway Forest Park. Learn Ninian’s Cave, near the Isle of The Monarch of the Glen is perhaps City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir glimpse into the life of the much about night-time navigation and Whithorn, in the company of Scotland’s most iconic work of County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 misunderstood pine marten and swap tales round the campfire. A Sara Maitland, author of Gossip art. But why? Christopher Baker, Shanghai in the 1930s could have offers a passionate portrait of one unique experience. Bring equipment from the Forest. Bring a picnic. director of the Scottish National given Chicago a run for its money. of Scotland’s richest habitats, the including a sleeping bag and water- Approx 2 hours. [503] Portrait Gallery and acting director Before the Japanese invaded, the oakwoods of Ardnamurchan’s proof clothing and expect to walk in of the Scottish National Gallery, city was a haven for outlaws from Atlantic seaboard. [510] the dark. Over-18s only. [512] Robert J Harris, 12 noon, Wednesday 26 September 26 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 27 Thursday 27 September Thursday 27 September

9.30AM still have to be written by hand. She written and broadcast on his passion, Book Town Breakfast gives a crash course in what to look which has taken him from his beloved Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 for, offers celebrity examples and Cairngorms to the Himalayas, and Music, chat and coffee with invites audience participation. [607] brought him face to face with legends Jessica Fox and guests. [601] such as Sir Chris Bonington and Tom 3PM Weir. He reveals the ups and downs 10.30AM James Jauncey of a life lived in the wilds. [612] Darryl David Tales of Don Roberto Sponsored by Merrick Real Estate & Peter Baker County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Inspired by Wigtown: Known as Don Roberto, JRB 6PM South Africa’s Book Town Cunninghame Graham was an THEATRE The Flames County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 adventurer. In Argentina, he was a The Print Room | £5 Inspired by Wigtown, literature gaucho, in Mexico a buffalo hunter, The Flames is a Glasgow-based professor Darryl David and Canadian and once he was held to ransom by theatre company offering people vet Peter Baker had a dream: to a Moroccan sheikh. Along the way, over 50 the chance to take to the create a book town in South Africa. he founded the Scottish Labour stage professionally. Everyday They tell how the plan transformed Party with Keir Hardie and later stories are transformed through the run-down little sheep town of Olga Wojtas, 4.30pm, Thursday 27 September became founding president of the August Thomas, 12 noon, Thursday 27 September ﬁlm, music and performance as they Richmond, in the Karoo desert. [602] SNP. James Jauncey invites us to offer a fresh take on ageing. [613] Cameron McNeish, 6pm, Thursday 27 September Sponsored by Colin Tennant Photography answers tend to be habitually wrong. meet his extraordinary ancestor. [608] 4.30PM Bobby Duffy, chairman of Ipsos Charles Cockell 7.30PM show of the same name. [614] 10.30AM Mori’s Social Research Institute, 3PM The Equations of Life PANEL Love in Sponsored by Creebridge House Hotel OUT & ABOUT offers an entertaining trip through Amanda Thomson County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 the Countryside Mark Williams the perception gap. What he says A Scots Dictionary of Nature How come gazelles have legs not Festival Marquee | £7 7.30PM A Festival Forage will transform the way you engage McNeillie Tent | £6 wheels? Why is life based on carbon Finding rural romance may not be THEATRE The Power Meet Garlieston Car Park | £20 with the world in a “post-truth” era. From an owl’s call on a summer’s not silicone? What would an alien easy but it is often funny. Described Behind the Crone A guided walk with Scotland’s only “Mandatory reading,” Steven Pinker. evening (“huam”) to walking in look like? Charles Cockell, professor as Bridget Jones’s Diary meets All Swallow Theatre, foraging tutor, Mark Williams of [605] wet mud (“splorroch”), Scots of astrobiology at Edinburgh Creatures Great and Small, Maura Ravenstone | £12.50 Galloway Wild Foods. [603] has a myriad of words relating University, explains why evolution McElhone’s Falling for a Farmer charts See Wed 26 Sep, 7.30pm. [615] Supported by Jack Oliver 12 NOON to nature. Amanda Thomson, a took the paths it did and what forces her journey from wide-eyed townie August Thomas lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, created our natural world. [610] to silage widow. She joins Wigtown 7.30PM 12 NOON Liar’s Candle was determined to preserve them. Show Secretary Richard Oxley and The Midge Bobby Duffy McNeillie Tent | £6 She reveals her stroll through the 4.30PM Dumfriesshire farmer Christine Travellers’ Tales The Perils of Perception August Thomas’s acclaimed thriller undergrowth of language. [609] Olga Wojtas Crosbie, whose quests for love in the Up the Garden Path, Pop Up Bar | £5 County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 has been compared to John Le Sponsored by East Knockbrex Farm Miss Blaine’s Prefect and countryside were featured in the BBC2 The storytelling evening returns with How much tax do the rich pay? Is Carré. It tells the story of an intern the Golden Samovar true tales from abroad – from Gap- society becoming more violent? at the US embassy in Ankara who McNeillie Tent | £7 year hell to holiday heaven. Tell yours When people are asked fundamental accidentally knows too much after Olga Wojtas introduces her hilarious or simply listen to others. [616] questions about society, their a terror attack: can she escape both homage to Jean Brodie. Shona, a the CIA and Turkish security? An time-travelling Morningside librarian 8PM 12 NOON American graduate of Edinburgh who’s also a martial artist, linguist FILM The Eyes OUT & ABOUT University’s creative writing course, and hater of Muriel Spark’s most of Orson Welles Sailing Adventure Thomas draws on her life in Turkey famous work, is sent to 19th-century County Buildings, Supper Room | £6 Meet Garlieston Harbour | £20 as a Fulbright Scholar. [606] Russia on a secret mission. [611] Mark Cousins’ beautiful new Sail from Garlieston to Portyerrock Sponsored by Publishing Scotland documentary offers a ravishingly Bay and return, splitting the 1.30PM original portrait of the great journey between dinghys and a Emma Bache 6PM showman through his drawings and 30ft yacht. Poet Stuart Paterson Reading Between the Lines Cameron McNeish paintings. Cert 12A. 115 min. [617] will offer some insights into County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 There’s Always the Hills the lore of the Solway Firth. The UK’s leading handwriting expert, County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 9.30PM Includes light refreshments and Emma Bache believes penmanship Cameron McNeish embodies Book at Bedtime instruction. 150 min approx. [604] can’t help but reveal our deepest Scotland’s love affair with the The Open Book | free selves: no wonder in Japan all CVs Charles Cockell, 4.30pm, Thursday 27 September outdoors. For forty years, he has Emma Bache, 1.30pm, Thursday 27 September The perfect end to the day. [618] 28 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 29 Friday 28 September Friday 28 September

Tristan Gooley, 1.30pm, Friday 28 September Brae visitor attraction in Dumfries and a tattoo artist with a secret. A brilliant communicator, in this prepares to open, Cally Phillips With a serial killer flaying his victims illustrated talk he reveals how we explores a lesser-known side of the to collect their skin art, the unlikely can rekindle our “sixth sense” writer. [703] pair are forced together. [705] and create a life-changing new relationship to the outdoors. [706] 12 NOON 1.30PM Sponsored by Miltonise Farms Louis McGuffie Tristan Gooley Commemoration Wild Signs and Star Paths 1.30PM By County Buildings | free County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 Recording War unticketed Bestselling writer and explorer “Little is known…” Please join us for a ceremony to Tristan Gooley has led expeditions The Print Room | free unveil a memorial to Sergeant Louis on five continents, spent time with For the Recording War project, local McGuffie VC of Wigtown, exactly the Tuareg, Bedouin and Dayak in writers were invited to respond to 100 years after the action for which some of the remotest places on exhibits in Annan and Dumfries he received the Victoria Cross. See Earth and pioneered a renaissance museums that told the story of the also 4.30pm. in the art of natural navigation. first world war. Hear their work on a special day of remembrance for 3PM 4.30PM 12 NOON Wigtown. The project was led by OUT & ABOUT Richard MacLean Smith OUT & ABOUT Vivien Jones, whose poem in the Unexplained: Supernatural Richard MacLean Smith, 4.30pm, Friday 28 September Anne Crone Crafty Gin Distillery Tour Imperial War Museum’s 100 Writers Uncovering Scotland’s Iron Age Stories for Uncertain Times 9.30AM Wigtown Road, Newton Stewart | £7 exhibition will also be read. [707] Whithorn Roundhouse | £6 County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Book Town Breakfast This special tour of Wigtownshire’s Join archaeologist Anne Crone in Based on the “world’s spookiest Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 state-of-the-art distillery includes a 3PM Whithorn’s reconstructed Iron Age podcast” of the same name, Music and chat from The chance to explore the flavours of the Rose George roundhouse. She talks about how Unexplained is a book of 10 real-life Bookshop Band and guests. signature Hills & Harbour gin. [704] Nine Pints wetland excavations help reveal the mysteries that defy reason – from Who’s on the sofa today? [701] County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 period, drawing on her work at Black demonic possession in 1970s 12 NOON Blood is a waste product and a Loch, near Monreith, and at Cults Germany to reincarnation in 10.30AM Alison Belsham commodity pricier than oil. It heals Loch, near Castle Kennedy, which Middlesbrough. Richard MacLean Julian Baggini The Tattoo Thief yet transmits deadly infections. are the subject of a new book, A Smith looks beyond the simple thrill How the World Thinks: A Global McNeillie Tent | £6 Many faint when they see it, but Lake Dwelling in Its Landscape. The of the uncanny to ask: what do they History of Philosophy In 2016, Alison Belsham won each of us has roughly nine pints. talk will be followed by a walk to the reveal about human experience? [712] County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 a pitching event at the Bloody From ancient bloodletting to Iron Age fortified site at Rispain Fort Sponsored by Krista Robertson Design Why have different parts of the globe Scotland festival with what would state-of-art synthetic plasma, Rose (4km round trip approx). [710] inspired such diverse philosophies? become The Tattoo Thief. One of the George will change the way you see Sponsored by The Priory Vet Centre How might we reconcile the traditions year’s most anticipated debuts, her the very stuff of life. [708] of, say, Ancient Greece, China and the exhilarating novel is a high-concept 4.30PM Islamic world? Julian Baggini went thriller about a young policeman Ruth Hogan, 3pm, Friday 28 September 3PM Mike Morley & on the road to find out. He offers a Ruth Hogan Jack Hunter wide-ranging map of human thought Rose George, 3pm, Friday 28 September The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Louis McGuffie VC: and argues that, by exploring how McNeillie Tent | £7 Wigtown’s War Hero other cultures conceive reality, we can Selected for the Richard and Judy Festival Marquee | £8 lose our certainties and take a step to Book Club, Ruth Hogan’s debut On 28 September 1918 in Belgium, greater understanding. [702] novel, The Keeper of Lost Things Wigtown’s Louis McGuffie sold more than a million copies. singlehandedly entered a series of 10.30AM She introduces her new book, enemy dugouts to take more than Cally Phillips another tale of friendship and 25 prisoners. Tragically he was killed JM Barrie’s Echoes of War redemption. Crushed by a personal by a shell a few days later, to be McNeillie Tent | £6 tragedy, Masha swims underwater posthumously awarded the Victoria During the first world war, JM Barrie to escape the world. But a chance Cross. One hundred years to the day wrote four short plays about how meeting with two women, including after his heroic actions, historians the conflict was experienced on the mysterious bag lady Sally Red Mike Morley and Jack Hunter tell home front, published in 1918 as Shoes, offers hope. [709] his story. [711] Echoes of War. As the Peter Pan Moat Sponsored by Galloway Heathers Sponsored by Stair Estates Sarah Churchwell, 6pm, Friday 28 September 30 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 31 Friday 28 September

Ruth Jones, 6pm, Friday 28 September 7.30PM marks Robin Ince I’m a Joke and So Are You Festival Marquee | £7 Robin Ince is a comedian. And, for years, in BBC Radio 4’s The Inﬁnite the spot Monkey Cage, he’s popularised science. Who better to put together this funny and thoughtful guide to the mind, which taps into the Can you ﬁnd the treasure? insights of comics, neuroscientists X and psychologists. [715] Wigtown Customer Sponsored by Bellis Consultancy Services will be 7.30PM 6PM Kenneth Baker hosting many activities Ruth Jones On the Seven Deadly Sins X in the library for all ages Never Greener County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Festival Marquee | £9 In a lavishly illustrated talk, former including colouring Ruth Jones is best known for Home Secretary Kenneth Baker competitions, quiet starring as the incorrigible Nessa in explores how the Seven Deadly Sins the BBC1 comedy Gavin and Stacey, have shaped history from Ancient zones, sleep over, story which she co-wrote with James Greece to today’s secular world. [716] times and treasure hunt. Corden, and for Sky 1’s Stella. She Sponsored by Cally Palace Hotel discussesCANCELLED her Sunday Times chart- topping novel. Witty and warm, it 7.30PM follows a successful actress who PERFORMANCE Please come and visit us at the John McNeillie Library at meets a married man with whom Brave New Words the Wigtown County Buildings for more information she once had an affair. Are life’s McNeillie Tent | free second chances worth taking? Jenny Lindsay of Flint & Pitch “Unputdownable”, JoJo Moyes. hosts a special evening of the We will also be running [713] Dumfries-based spoken word event Brave New Words with music from extra Bookbug sessions 6PM Waitress for the Bees (novelist throughout the week Robin Ince, 7.30pm, Friday 28 September Sarah Churchwell Emma Hooper). [717] Behold America: A Partial and we’ve increased our History of America First and 7.30PM the American Dream THEATRE The Picture opening hours for the County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 of Dorian Gray week of the festival. President Trump promised to revive Swallow Theatre, Ravenstone | £13.50 the “American Dream” by putting See Sat 29 Sep, 7.30pm. [718] “America First”. But what do those Check the listings to see terms mean? And what does their 8PM what’s on and when. fascinating history reveal about OUT & ABOUT attitudes to capitalism, democracy Harbour Stargazing and race in the US? Sarah Meet by County Buildings | £5 Churchwell is Professor of American Dark skies and moon rise with Bookbug Sessions Literature and Chair of Public expert Elizabeth Tindal. [719] Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, 9.30PM University of London.“Enormously Book at Bedtime entertaining,” Sunday Times. [714] The Open Book | free Kenneth Baker, 7.30pm, Friday 28 September Sponsored by Park Cottage Stories and hot chocolate. [720] 32 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 33 Saturday 29 September Saturday 29 September

Patrick Gale, 12 noon, Saturday 29 September story The Gloaming, the inhabitants of Mara’s island are doomed to end 12 NOON - 3PM their days turned to stone on a cliff. Meet the Agent [805] County Buildings, Museum Sponsored by Craft | free (book in advance) Literary agent Jenny Brown 12 NOON will be on hand for writers Patrick Gale to pitch new work between Take Nothing with You 10.30am and 1pm. To reserve Festival Marquee | £8 a slot, and submit work, Born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight, please email boxoffice@ son of the prison governor, Patrick wigtownbookfestival.com Gale is one of Britain’s best-loved Booking essential. [808] and bestselling novelists, an astute and sympathetic observer of human account of farming, faith and family, nature whose works include Rough depression, healing and joy, but Music and the BBC drama Man in it’s also the story of the cow itself an Orange Shirt. Set partly in the through history. “Gripping,” Roddy Ayesha Hazarika, 10.30am, Saturday 29 September to politics’ most famous bear pit, Borders, Take Nothing With You Doyle. “Vivid and sharply observed,” and spares nobody’s blushes in the charts a collision between childish Jo Swinson, 12 noon, Saturday 29 September Colm Toibin. [809] 9.30AM process. “That rare thing: a genuinely hero worship and messy adult love Sponsored by Montpelier Chartered Accountants Book Town Breakfast informative, funny and original book lives. “A wonderful, wonderful Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 on politics,” Andrew Marr. [803] read,” Stephen Fry. [806] 12 NOON Coffee. Pastries. The Bookshop Sponsored by Portequip The Reading Band. Guests. What more could 10.30AM Development Event you want? [801] Emma Hooper 12 NOON The Print Room | free & Kirsty Logan Jo Swinson Almost 40 percent of children find 10.30AM Our Homesick Songs Equal Power: And How You learning to read difficult. Join us Mike Morley & The Gloaming Can Make It Happen to discuss the challenges faced Wigtown Warriors McNeillie Tent | £6 County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 by those with dyslexia, which will Festival Marquee | £7 Two island novels of magic and As a former Minister for Women, also highlight tools and support Over 240 people with Wigtown mermaids by two huge talents, from and an MP who took maternity networks to break down some of connections served their country Canada and Scotland respectively. leave only to be betrayed by her the barriers. Our panel includes in the first world war. More than Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Tory “pair” in a crucial vote, deputy Dr Jeremy Law, University of 80 were killed. Wigtown resident Songs is a haunting tale of a fading Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson Glasgow, School of Interdisciplinary Mike Morley has been delving in Newfoundland fish town and a boy knows more than most about Studies; Lucy Juckes, co-founder Richard Holloway, 1.30pm, Saturday 29 September the archives and shares stories of who will do anything to save his gender, power and politics. She talks of Barrington Stoke publishers; and sacrifice and bravery. [802] family. In Kirsty Logan’s fishy love about why inequality between the Rossie Stone, director of Dekko Sponsored by J B Costley Builders Mike Morley, 10.30am, Saturday 29 September sexes is so persistent and what can John Connell, 12 noon, Saturday 29 September Comics. [810] be done to change the status quo. 10.30AM 10.30AM - 4PM DROP-IN [807] Ayesha Hazarika The Bookbinder Sponsored by citybothy.com Punch and Judy Politics: An County Buildings, Insiders’ Guide to Prime Nature Room | free 12 NOON Minister’s Questions A former production manager John Connell County Buildings, Main Hall | £6 at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, The Cow Book Now a broadcaster and stand-up Christian Ribbens began book- McNeillie Tent | £7 comedian, former Westminster binding as a hobby. Now he John Connell discusses his number political adviser Ayesha Hazarika lovingly repairs antique volumes one bestseller in Ireland. The Cow spent five years prepping Ed Miliband for clients around the UK. Drop Book tells how he unexpectedly for Prime Minister’s Questions. in for a chat as he demonstrates returned from Australia to run his his rare craft. [804] She offers a hilarious, insightful family farm in County Longford. Alex Johnson, 6pm, guide (written with Tom Hamilton) Set over a calving season, it’s an Saturday 29 September 34 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 35 Saturday 29 September Saturday 29 September

1.30PM and broadcaster Sally Magnusson Andrew Miller tells of Ásta, the pastor’s wife who Now We Shall Be Entirely Free endures her changed circumstances McNeillie Tent | £7 with the one thing she brought from The Costa Award-winning author of home: the stories in her head. [815] Pure and Ingenious Pain introduces Sponsored by A B & A Matthews his stunning historical novel, the tale of a traumatised soldier, back from 3PM the Napoleonic Wars, whose search Ed Vulliamy for peace in the Hebrides turns into When Words Fail a nail-biting hunt to the death. “One County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 of our most skilful chroniclers of the As a journalist reporting from conflict human heart and mind,” Sunday zones, Ed Vulliamy knows the power Times. [813] of music to say what words can’t. Sally Magnusson, 3pm, Saturday 29 September He talks to Allan Little, whom he 1.30PM worked beside in Bosnia, about his OUT & ABOUT account of 16 life-changing concerts, from Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight 4.30PM Natalie McIlroy Festival, to the Bataclan in Paris and Ann Cleeves Pippins Revisited Walk the siege of Sarajevo. He asks: would Wild Fire William Davies, 1.30pm, Saturday 29 September Oliver Bullough, 4.30pm, Saturday 29 September Meet by County Buildings | free the world be a better place if we Festival Marquee | £8 1.30PM In 2014, environmental artist Natalie listened more and talked less? [816] A former probation officer, bird- 4.30PM Richard Holloway McIlroy planted 31 Galloway Pippin Sponsored by Simpsons Bakery observatory cook and auxiliary Oliver Bullough Waiting for the Last Bus apple trees in gardens around coastguard, Ann Cleeves is now Moneyland Festival Marquee | £8 Wigtown. Hear about the project, 3PM one of the UK’s leading crime County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 Radical, joyful and moving, Waiting visit some of the trees and listen to The Whithorn Way writers. Her books have sold more Investigative journalist Oliver Bullough for the Last Bus is an invitation to their owners’ stories. [814] McNeillie Tent | £6 than five million copies worldwide takes us on a trip to Moneyland, a reconsider life’s greatest mystery. Explore the legend, lore and and spawned two much-loved TV realm of the lawless, stateless super The former Bishop of Edinburgh, 3PM landscape of the 143-mile westerly adaptations, Shetland and Vera. She rich. He argues that lax attitudes to Richard Holloway has spent a Sally Magnusson pilgrimage route to the medieval discusses her life in writing, the final money-laundering are undermining lifetime at the bedsides of the dying. The Sealwoman’s Gift shrine of St Ninian. Julia Muir Watt book of the Shetland series, Wild the West’s stability, explains the true He reflects on the most important Festival Marquee | £8 discusses her new guide, Walk the Fire, and the sweet sorrow of saying cost of a Britain that is “open for lessons we can learn from death. In 1627, Barbary pirates raided the Whithorn Way, with writers Jessica farewell to its hero, Jimmy Perez. [819] business” whoever the customers, “Thought-provoking, revelatory, coast of Iceland and abducted some Fox and Sara Maitland, who have Sponsored by Ferry Fish and introduces us to the kleptocrats grave and comforting,” Alexander 400 people. Among the captives been stepping out on the trail. [817] and their awful children. [820] McCall Smith. [811] sold into slavery in Algiers were a Sponsored by Coburg Capital Ltd Sponsored by Galbraith pastor, his wife and children. In her 3PM bestselling take on the story, writer Andrew Miller, 1.30pm, Saturday 29 September THE BIG BANG EVENT 4.30PM 1.30PM PANEL Is Reality David Clark William Davies Discovered or Invented? Cicely Saunders: Nervous States The Print Room | £6 A Life and Legacy County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 Join us for a taste of Wigtown’s McNeillie Tent | £7 Why do we no longer trust experts? Big Bang, our winter celebration Born 100 years ago, Dame Cicely What lies behind today’s populist of science. The Guardian’s Max Saunders revolutionised care for upheavals? William Davies, author Sanderson enlists the help of the dying, opening the world’s first of The Happiness Industry, looks to BBC Radio 4 science presenter modern hospice in 1967. David Clark the past to explain the present. He Timandra Harkness and Professor discusses his study of a remarkable argues that, as many of the basic John Brown, Astronomer Royal nurse, social worker, physician and assumptions on which the modern for Scotland, to chew on science’s writer, who succeeded in the face world was founded vanish, fear is biggest philosophical question. Do the of a complex private life and others’ driving us to rely on feelings not facts. laws of maths, on which all scientific scepticism. Professor Clark is the The author teaches political economy theories are based, underpin nature? Wellcome Trust Investigator at the and sociology at Goldsmiths, Or are they invented to describe an University of Glasgow, School of University of London. [812] Ed Vulliamy, 3pm, Saturday 29 September ultimately unknowable reality? [818] Ann Cleeves, 4.30pm, Saturday 29 September Interdisciplinary Studies. [821] 36 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 37 Saturday 29 September Saturday 29 September

6PM planet. The former sommelier at own soul?” An original adaptation Tom Devine Le Gavroche and author of I Love by Box Tale Soup (Northanger The English in Modern Scotland Champagne and 101 Champagnes Abbey, Manalive!) of Oscar Wilde’s County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 and Other Sparkling Wines will lead haunting story of vanity, debauchery How have Scots reacted to the you through an entertaining hour’s and scandal. 70 min. [829] settlement of many thousands of tasting. Bubbles included. [827] English people among them in the 8.45PM last half-century? This is only one 7.30PM The Festival Ceilidh of the questions considered by the Donald Smith Festival Marquee | £6 nation’s leading historian in this talk The Irish Hoard Join us for an evening of celebration based on his recently published The Print Room | £6 and dancing to the sounds of New Scots: Scotland’s Immigrant Join one of Scotland’s top the Cask Strength ceilidh band. Communities Since 1945. [824] storytellers for a boisterous hour Whether it’s your first ceilidh or your Sponsored by Wigtown Pharmacy as he launches the first of his hundredth, everyone is welcome. “Treacherous Times” novellas, The Festival Ceilidh, 8.45pm, Saturday 29 September [830] 6PM a satirical take on “a Scotland in Sponsored by Crafty Distillery Alex Johnson the grip of Brexit malaise”. Set 7.30PM Book Towns: Forty-Five in Wigtown and Whithorn, The THEATRE The Picture 9.30PM Paradises of the Printed Word Irish Hoard tells of a surprise of Dorian Gray Book at Bedtime McNeillie Tent | £7 archaeological discovery that leads Swallow Theatre, The Open Book | free There are more than 40 official and to mayhem and skulduggery. Donald Ravenstone | £13.50 Wind down with bedtime readings semi-official Book Towns around Smith is the founding director of the “What does it profit a person if they and hot chocolate. A perfect end to the world, from the original Hay- Scottish Storytelling Centre. [828] gain the whole world and lose their the day. [831] on-Wye to Jimbocho in Japan and Arabella Weir, 6pm, Saturday 29 September Selfoss in Iceland, not forgetting Wigtown itself. Alex Johnson talks 4.30PM about his beautiful new book which PERFORMANCE celebrates the stories of these Lord Fox: A Fable havens of literature. [825] Dumfries & Galloway Life Cruggleton Church | £8 Supported by ScottishPower Energy Networks Created for the Edinburgh International THE REGION’S FAVOURITE MAGAZINE Book Festival by songmaker Kirsty 6PM Proud to be media partner of Wigtown Book Festival 2018 WELCOME INN MEET THE MONARCH WINNING HOSPITALITY IN ST JOHN’S TOWN OF DALRY £3.2m Kirkcudbright Law, author Kirsty Logan and Wigtown Poetry Galleries opens in style contemporary harpist Esther Swift, Competition 2018 Dumfries & Lord Fox reimagines the traditional The Print Room | free £29.99 FOR 12 ISSUES folk tale of seduction, curiosity and Join us for readings and then £21.70 every 6 months (via Direct Debit)* GallowayJULY 2018 Life revenge. Join them on a dark journey refreshments as Christine De Luca ISSUE 128 that may leave you questioning the announces the winner of Scotland’s + FREE DG LIFE CARD Hooked on Memories are IN PARTNERSHIP WITH made of this stories we are told. [822] international poetry prize while Neverland Mary Gladstone’s How the birthplace of stories of childhood Peter Pan continues to Angus Peter Campbell and Jenny inspire a new generation 6PM Lindsay reveal their choices in the For membership call 01228 612760 Arabella Weir Scots Gaelic and Scots Language Does My Bum Still Categories respectively. [826] Join the 2,800 Dumfries & Galloway Life subscribers who FEATURING ANNAN Supported by The Gaelic Books Council and DUMFRIES Look Big in This? DALBEATTIE have received our DG Life card entitling members to save KIRKCUDBRIGHT CASTLE DOUGLAS NEWTON STEWART Festival Marquee | £8 the Saltire Society PORTPATRICK Davy Zyw, Saturday 29 September, 7.30pm 25% on O Peak Advance Fares with Virgin Trains, STRANRAER WIGTOWN THREAVE In 1998, the actor, comedian and for two passengers all year round (T&Cs apply) MOFFAT writer Arabella Weir published her decades on, with the wisdom of 7.30PM first book, Does My Bum Look Big age, and in the age of social media Davy Zyw www.dumfriesandgallowaylife.co.uk Secret life of Dumfries £4.25

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9.30AM Haetzman. The husband-and-wife collected verse). We reunite two of Book Town Breakfast team has created a new historical our most respected poets, who are Craft, 30 South Main St | £5 mystery, set in the feverish joined by a third, 2018 Gaelic Prize Conversation and music from The underworld of 1840s Edinburgh, a judge Angus Peter Campbell. Their Bookshop Band and guests. [901] city of medicine, money and murder. readings reflect on the passing of time Prepare to be surprised and amused and friends absent and present. [908] 10.30AM in this immersive event. [905] David Hayman Sponsored by Andrew Plunkett Steel Buildings Ltd 1.30PM Scotland’s Slavery Story Tom Devine Festival Marquee | £8 12 NOON The Scottish Clearances: An actor, director and founder James Crawford A History of the Dispossessed of the humanitarian organisation Scotland from the Sky Festival Marquee | £8 Spirit Aid, David Hayman has also County Buildings, Main Hall | £8 The landscape of Scotland today become known for his impassioned Historian turned TV presenter James came at a heavy price. In a major documentaries on the nation’s history. James Crawford, 12 noon, Sunday 30 September Crawford tells the story of the nation new work, Professor Sir Tom Devine He discusses the latest, made for from above. For his beautiful book, has told the story of the destruction the BBC, in which he has looked at misunderstood? In The Human Kind, based on the 2018 BBC TV series, of entire communities and 300 Scotland’s role in the slave trade, Peter Dorward reveals the ethical he draws on Historic Environment years of large-scale emigration from contributions to its abolition dilemmas that doctors encounter Scotland’s vast archive of aerial from both Highlands and Lowlands. Madeleine Black, 12 noon, Sunday 30 September to the huge industrial profits from every day in their surgeries, and photography. He also takes to the sky He talks about his reassessment human misery, which helped found truthfully recalls his own failures, from himself, revealing treasures invisible and challenges some of the myths to the flow country of Caithness and so many of our institutions. [902] the tragic to the humorous. He talks at ground level and how much the around these epic upheavals. [909] Sutherland. He charts the history Sponsored by Hillcrest House about his moving and humane book landscape has changed, for good or Sponsored by Wigtown Motor Company of the environmental movement with journalist Allan Little. [903] ill, in the name of progress. [906] in the UK and asks why the British 10.30AM Sponsored by Blairbuy Farm 1.30PM love the countryside so fiercely, yet Peter Dorward 10.30AM Mark Cocker inhabit one of the most denatured The Human Kind Jessica A Fox 12 NOON Our Place landscapes on Earth. [910] County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Three Things You Need Madeleine Black County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 Sponsored by Galloway & What does it mean to be a To Know About Rockets Unbroken Can we save Britain’s wildlife before Southern Ayrshire Biosphere GP and know you are bound McNeillie Tent | £7 McNeillie Tent | £7 it is too late? Acclaimed author and to fail many patients over the First published in 2012 and now At the age of 13, Madeleine Black activist Mark Cocker – author of 1.30PM years, to misunderstand and be optioned by a major Hollywood faced more physical and emotional Crow Country – went on a mission PANEL film company, Jessica Fox’s comic trauma than most people do in a to find out, from Norfolk’s flatlands Steve Brusatte, 3pm, Sunday 30 September The Future of memoir told the story of how, on a lifetime. Violently gang raped and Technology whim, she gave up her job working abused, she spent years tormented McNeillie Tent | £7 for Nasa in Los Angeles to work in a by psychological demons. Now Since the birth of Google in Wigtown bookshop and find love. In a psychotherapist working in September 1998, technology has this re-released and revised version, Glasgow, she talks about Unbroken, transformed our lives. We look at she frankly reveals what happened her remarkable memoir of how she the social consequences of living next, as romantic fantasy met came not only to rebuild her life but through a digital revolution and ask romantic reality. [904] to forgive. “A powerful testament to what the next 20 years may bring, Sponsored by Carslae Farm forgiveness, by an author who has from AI and robots stealing our suffered greatly,” Alexander McCall jobs, to new conceptions of privacy, 12 NOON Smith. [907] leisure, intelligence and selfhood. Chris Brookmyre & Should we be excited or afraid? Marisa Haetzman 12 NOON Our panel includes: William Ambrose Parry: The Way A Poet’s Party Davies, author of Nervous States of All Flesh The Print Room | £6 and editor of a new volume, Festival Marquee | £7 At the first Wigtown Book Festival, Economic Science Fictions; Ambrose Parry is the pseudonym the late Alastair Reid shared a Timandra Harkness, presenter of award-winning crime-writer stage with Christine de Luca of BBC Radio 4’s FutureProofing;

Chris Brookmyre & Marisa Haetzmann, 12 noon, Chris Brookmyre and consultant (now Edinburgh Makar) and Tom and leading Scottish science ﬁction Sunday 30 September anaesthesiologist, Dr Marisa Peter Dorward, 10.30am, Sunday 30 September Pow (who has recently edited Reid’s Mark Cocker, 1.30pm, Sunday 30 September writer, Ken MacLeod. [911] 40 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 41 Sunday 30 September

3PM chair of Edinburgh International 20TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE Book Festival. [912] Allan Little Sponsored by I Fisher 1998 and All This Festival Marquee | £8 3PM Allan Little considers the challenges Steve Brusatte that the world order has faced since The Rise and Fall 1998. Drawing on his career as a of the Dinosaurs reporter, from Bosnia to Baghdad County Buildings, Main Hall | £7 and Congo, he considers history’s What if much of what we think we tendency to make fools of us all, know about dinosaurs is wrong? and asks whether liberal democracy One of a new breed of dinosaur as we’ve known it is doomed. Born “hunters”, Edinburgh University’s in Wigtownshire, Allan Little is a Dr Steve Brusatte presents his BBC special correspondent and bestseller, which tells a new story of how these magniﬁcent beasts ruled Earth for 150 million years. “Thrilling,” Sunday Times. [913] Sponsored by Shennanton Sawmill Isabel Losada, 3pm, Sunday 30 September 3PM Isabel Losada funny, Sensation is the story of the Sensation: Adventures in author’s year-long quest to ﬁnd out Sex, Love and Laughter how to make our sex lives better. McNeillie Tent | £7 “I want to learn this stuff,” Russell Join the author of the bestselling Brand. [914] The Battersea Park Guide to Enlightenment as she brings her 3PM customary blend of humour, Stuart Paterson curiosity and honesty to the subject Here Is the Weather Allan Little, 3pm, Sunday 30 September of sex. Irreverent, open-minded and The Print Room | £6 In 2017, Stuart Paterson was appointed BBC Scotland’s Poet The heart of Galloway hosts wonderful in Residence, responding to the wildlife. Visit Wood of Cree the largest network’s output. He reads from his work and talks to Asif Khan, ancient oak woodland in southern director of the Scottish Poetry Scotland. Wigtown Bay Visitor Centre Library, about how the individual within Wigtown County Buildings gives poems originated. [915]

information about the local area. Get 4.30PM out in the fresh air at Crook of Baldoon, OUT & ABOUT for seas of thrift, waders and geese. MUSIC Events all year – see websites below. Live from The Birdhide Wigtown Harbour | £5 Celebrate the end of the festival RSPB Scotland Wigtown Office with an outdoor concert at Wigtown 26, South Main Street, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, DG8 9EH. Harbour. Waitress for the Bees Phone 01988 402130 (Canadian novelist Emma Hooper) joins Ben Please and Beth Porter of

n www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/c/crookofbaldoon/index.aspx The Bookshop Band for an hour n www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/w/woodofcree/index.aspx Jessica Fox, 10.30am, of verbally dexterous folk melodies Sunday 30 September beside the Solway Firth. [917] 42 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 43 w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w spot the world books a flashy costume. A heart-warming comedy of self-esteem, learning to Follow the map around town love your own scales and take pride and find the world books in in what makes you different. [C09] each window. Maps available from the Box Office, 11 North Shirley Husband, Maurice Main Street, Wigtown Library Hynds & Steven Brown and the Children’s Festival foyer. Nan McCoo and the Birthday Bother Wigtown Primary, The Hall Bookbug Rhymetime 4pm | £3.50 | 4-8 Songs, rhymes and stories for Nan McCoo is an amazing granny the youngest festival-goers. who always tries to keep the clan County Buildings, Library BiEntertainingg & inspiring events for our Wi youngest festival-goersg happy. She wants to surprise Chloe Daily 10.15am-10.45am. B McCoo for her birthday, but there’s a Supported by D&G Libraries.

problem – naughty Davy McDug. A as we explore the story of the delightful tale in Scots that will make

Christopher Lloyd, 11.30am, Saturday 22 September L Fri 21 sept L planet, from history to nature, you feel like part of the family. [C10] Aged 10-13?

K science to Shakespeare. These

Alan Gibbons award-winning timeline wallbooks Alan Windram Not sure what’s for you? You’ll aCceSs wworkork find events with a 10-13 badge Dream Team unfold the key moments in the From Inspiration K across Big Wig and WTF Wigtown Primary, The Hall history of the world with facts and shshopop to Publication programmes. The ages on 4pm | Free | 8+ beautiful illustrations. [C06] Wigtown Primary, listings are just a guide unless Coach Ayo takes the team to the Supported by Eloise & Natasha The Treehouse we’ve specified a restriction. library for some research to help 4pm | £3.50 | 8+ improve their game. To their surprise, Lari Don & Nataša Ilinˇcić Alan Windram understands the tricky the past really does hold the key to The Treasure of the process of taking a creative idea to Ticketing Policy making this season work. Suitable Loch Ness Monster publication. Let him equip you with for reluctant or dyslexic readers. [C02] the knowledge to develop, pitch and Under-12s must be accompanied Ross Montgomery, 11.30am, Saturday 22 September Wigtown Primary, The Hall 1pm | £3.50 | 5-7 Shirley Husband, 4pm, Saturday 22 September publish your bestseller. Perfect for by a ticket-buying adult. Under-2s K who do not need a seat are free. as he talks about his hilarious Mr Ishbel and Kenneth need to save their young writers and illustrators. [C11] L sat 22 sept L Gum series and his new book family from going hungry, so when set off across Loch Ness. Can they Sponsored by Allan McDowall Ltd Ages in listings are for guidance Natboff! One Million Years of Stupidity, they remember an old tale about reveal the monster in the depths? [C07] only. Even if an event is free, it is still advisable to book. workwork Mossyard Farm set in Mr Gum’s hometown. [C04] treasure under Urquhart Castle, they Sponsored by Curly Tale Books ______shshopop Pottery Supported by Aaron, Kyran & Harry Wigtown Primary School Barbara Mitchelhill Photography aCceSs 10am-4pm | pottery ranges Ross Montgomery No 1 Boy Detective series DDayay tickticketsets £4-£15 | family drop-in Space Tortoise Wigtown Primary, The Hall Photographs are taken during Pick your own ceramic character, Wigtown Primary, The Hall 2.30pm | £3.50 | 6+ Children’s Festival family the festival for future publicity. plate, mug or tile and create your 11.30am | £3.50 | 3-7 Damian Drooth is one of a kind. tickets are available for £20 Please advise the steward at own unique design with the help of A lonely tortoise longs to reach the A clean-up-the-world hero. Help per day. A day ticket permits events if we may not photograph Amy McConchie. [C03] stars and find other animals to play Damian solve the mysteries of ghosts, entry for up to five family your family. with. Using things he finds in the bin, dog snatchers, forged football tickets members, including a Andy Stanton he makes a spacesuit and sets off to and graffiti. Criminals beware! [C08] maximum of two adults. super accessible Mr Gum & Natboff! One Million find the rocket at the other end of the Supported by Holly & Arthur To guarantee availability for specific events, day ticket Years of Stupidity park - but is it really a spaceship? [C05] Hearing and telling holders must also reserve seats. Wigtown Primary, The Hall Supported by Hamish & Euan Jarvis stories is an experience ______aCceSs 10am | £3.50 | 7+ Tropical Terry ______that everyone can Multi award-winning, ridiculously Christopher Lloyd Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse enjoy. Whether you’re a reluctant funny author Andy Stanton brings What On Earth? 2.30pm | £3.50 | 3+ reader, have a reading disability

laughter, silly voices and horrible, Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse Terry feels dull compared to the or additional support needs, you

horrible singing – in short, business as 11.30am | £3.50 | Families 7+ dazzling tropical ﬁsh in Coral Reef can enjoy Big Wig too. Look out usual. Join him for joyous nonsense Journey around the earthK in wonder Andy Stanton, 10am, Saturday 22 September City until his friends help him make for the icon. 44 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 45 w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w Vivian French L sun 23 sept L Billy Hippo Learned To Swim L Mon 24 sept L L Wed 26 sept L Wigtown Primary, The Hall K 1pm | £3.50 | Under 5 Astrid Jaekel Puppet Anima! ______wworkork wworkork Mossyard Farm Billy Hippo hates water. It’s too cold, shshopop Stained Glass Adventures from the Odyssey Pottery too scary and too wet. It takes two The Culture Club The Culture Club shshopop Wigtown Primary School cheeky frogs and a big surprise to 4.30pm | £3.50 | 10+ 11.30am | £3.50 | 3-5 aCceSs 10am-4pm | pottery ranges persuade Billy that swimming might Learn how to create your own Full of magic and monsters, Ancient

£4-£15 | family drop-in be fun. A gentle and humorous tale papercut design and give it a stained- Greece comes to life. Join Odysseus

Pick your own ceramic character, from the 2018 Scottish Book Trust glass window effect with coloured on his journey and visit the ﬁrst ever plate, mug or tile and create your Outstanding Achievement Award- cellophane. Lasts 90 mins. [C22] Olympic Games. Interactive storytelling own design with the help of winner. [C16] K Supported by Helena and puppetry with Carolyne Latham Amy McConchie. [C12] Sponsored by The Old Bank Bookshop and her friendly dog. [C26] ______Susi Briggs & Nip Nebs Supported by Thomas Gareth P Jones Toon Trail Cathy Cassidy The Daily Joker Meet at The Print Room The Lost and Found series Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse 5.30pm | £3.50 | Family L Thur 27 sept L Wigtown Primary, The Hall 1pm | £3.50 | 7-11 An interactive story trail with Nip 10am | £3.50 | 9+ Gareth thinks he’s so funny that he’s Nebs himself. Search for pixies Time to Turn In Sometimes you need to get lost in written a rib-tickling joke for every Gareth P Jones, 1pm, Sunday 23 September an strinkle icy draps on speeder Bedtime Stories K order to be found. From the author day of the year. Join him for an hour webs! Nip Nebs is a Scots language Wigtown Library of the best-selling Chocolate Box of laugh out loud tricks, groanworthy picture book for children. A melodic 7pm | £3.50 | Family Girls, Love from Lexi is the story of gags, funny songs and silly games. [C17] imagining of an ancient Scottish Put on your pyjamas and bring your a girl whose mother goes missing, sprite also known as Jack Frost. [C23] favourite cuddly toy for bedtime while Sami’s Silver Lining tells the tale Chae Strathie songs and stories. [C27] of a Syrian refugee trying to build a Mack and the Missing Cheese aCceSs Vivian French Supported by Dumfries & Galloway new life in England. [C13] Wigtown Primary, The Hall The Fiendish Revenge Library Services Supported by Ellie 2.30pm | £3.50 | 3+ of Leroy Jones Mack, the cat detective, and his The Print Room

Kate McLelland trusty assistant Squeak try to solve 7pm | Free | 8+ L Fri 28 sept L

Isla and Pickle the mystery of the missing cheese. Leroy Jones thinks his name is Wigtown Primary, The Hall A hilarious new picture book from ridiculous and is determined to keep K aCceSs Marie Louise 11.30am | £3.50 | 3-7 Mark Lowery, 11.30am, Sunday 23 September the 2018 Bookbug Picture Book it a secret. But bossy Amy Strundle Cochrane Isla loves Pickle, the miniature Prize-winner. [C18] has other ideas. Will Leroy get his Storytime with Mrs Mash Shetland pony who lives in revenge, and is it really a dish best The Culture Club her neighbour’s ﬁeld. They Peter Brown served cold? Suitable for reluctant 11am | £3.50 | 3-7 have lots of fun together, but The Wild Robot or dyslexic readers. [C24] Scrumptious stories, catchy songs sometimes the mischievous Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse and food-themed fun with Mrs twosome get into a spot of 2.30pm | £3.50 | 9+ Mash the Storytelling Cook. trouble. [C14] An enchanting and thought- L Tues 25 sept L Lasts 45 mins. [C28] Supported by Isla & Mia provoking story from the New York Peter Brown, 2.30pm, Sunday 23 September Supported by Ernie, Issi, Naya, Ross & Sally Times bestseller Peter Brown. When workwork Gina Lawson Mark Lowery robot Roz awakes alone on a remote Ross Mackenzie Marbling Renita Boyle Charlie and Me: island, she has no idea how she got The Elsewhere Emporium shshopop Applegarth Garden, Big Wig’s First Adventure 421 Miles from Home there. She learns from the island’s Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse Harbour Rd The Print Room L Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse unfriendly animals, until her past 4pm | £3.50 | 8+ 4pm | £3.50 | 3+ 5.30pm | £3.50 | Family 11.30am | £3.50 | 9+ comes back to haunt her. [C19] Sequel to the Blue Peter Award Learn how to marble by making Bring your imagination Martin and Charlie journey 421 miles winner The Nowhere Emporium, your own bookmark and and help children’s from Preston to Cornwall to see the Big Wig’s Book Case Daniel and Ellie face their darkest suncatcher. Create your author and storyteller Vivian French, dolphin that made last year’s family 1pm, Sunday Wigtown Primary, The Hall fears to save the legendary Emporium own design – the only Renita Boyle to holiday so special. But it’s not the 23 September 4pm | Free | Family and each other. Be transported into a limit is your imagination. write Big Wig’s ﬁrst only reason they are making this Cherry Dashper, Moira Shields, magical realm where imagination is Perfect for children of adventure. [C29] very special journey. Expect humour, and Amanda Sunderland power and anything is possible. [C21] all ages. Old clothes Supported by Abigail, adventure and heartbreak. [C15] celebrate their new books. [C20] Supported by James & Molly advisable. [C25] Zoe, Cohen & Edison 46 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 47 w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w Jen Campbell & wworkork Ariel Killick L Sat 29 sept L Katie Harnett Adventures with the Franklin’s Flying Bookshop shshopop Gaelic Tree Alphabet - Wigtown Primary, The Hall Dàna-Thursan ri Aibidil 1pm | £3.50 | 3+ nan Craobhan Franklin the dragon would love to Fr sunday Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse read stories to people, if only they 1pm | FREE | 7+ weren’t so scared of him. Then he An Gille Dubh – The Guardian of the meets Luna and together they hatch Trees – is saddened by the clearing of a plan to share their love of reading his beloved forest and leaves to share

by opening a ﬂying bookshop! his tale. Lie and dream among the Author Jen Campbell and illustrator stars under a magical Gaelic spell. [C44]

Katie Harnett present the adorable

pair and introduce the second book K Jean Edmiston Ariel Killick, 10am, Sunday 30 September

Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon. [C34] Julia Jarman, 11.30am, Saturday 29 September Storytelling Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse K L Sun 30 sept L Jen Campbell & Katie Hartnett, 1pm, 2.30pm | FREE | Family Saturday 29 September Gill Arbuthnott Gwen Millward Ariel Killick A Secret Diary of the First World War Tiger Lily ______Graffiti Workshop Traditional and original folktales for ZooLab Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse Wigtown Primary, The Hall DG Funkyfaces Wigtown Primary School all ages. There may be wolves and Wigtown Primary School 1pm | £3.50 | 7-10 2.30pm | £3.50 | 3+ Wigtown Primary School 10am-12noon | FREE | 10-13 howoooooling. Lasts 45 mins. [C45] 10am-12noon | Free | Family Step into the boots of 14-year-old Lily gets lost with a lovable, but very 10am-4pm | FREE | Family Combine Celtic with Contemporary Get up close with the curious soldier James Marchbank and naughty, Tiger. They have lots of fun Celebrate the final day of the in a unique bilingual Gaelic Graffiti James IV creatures from ZooLab. [C30] find our what the first world war stomping, jumping and going wild festival by having your face Art workshop. Explore your creativity Science King was really like. Blending facts with until the Tiger goes too far. [C36] painted like your favourite and express yourself responsibly with Theatre Whithorn Trust, DG8 8NS Barry Hutchison fascinating fiction, this new series character. Who will you be? markers, spray paints, complex Celtic 2.30pm | Children £3.50, Magna Cow brings the most exciting and crucial Elizabeth Ezra Perhaps Mack the cat detective, stencilling and Hip Hop themes. [C41] Adults £5 | Family £15 Wigtown Primary, The Hall moments of WWI alive. [C35] Ruby McCracken: Mr Gum, Magna Cow, the Loch James IV was a very great king, lover 10am | £3.50 | 3-7 Tragic Without Magic Ness Monster, Wild Robot Roz Sandy McKnight of science, art, music, people. See a Magna Cow has mysterious magnetic Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse or Big Wig himself? [C39] Wheedleneeps group of actors and wastrels recount powers that cause her to mess up the 2.30pm | £3.50 | 8+ Wigtown Primary, The Hall the magnificent deeds of his life, other cows’ fun, but when disaster When Ruby’s parents move the 11.30am | FREE | Family dentistry, alchemy, pilgrimage. [C46] strikes, she saves the day. [C31] family to the Ordinary World, she This dark tale of Wheedleneeps the thinks her life is over. Until one day Brownie is inspired by local folklore. Family Fun

Julia Jarman Ruby receives a mysterious message When the animals are blamed for Wigtown Primary

The Time-Travelling Cat which appears to be the answer to taking crops from the farmer’s field, he 2.30pm-5pm | FREE Wigtown Primary, The Hall her magic-deprived life. [C37] has no choice but to take responsibility Celebrate the end of the festival K L 11.30am | £3.50 | 9+ for his actions. Lasts 45 mins. [C42] with lots of family fun: tell tales with Topher takes in a stray cat and calls Illustrator Renita Boyle; make masks with ______her Ka, but he becomes concerned Consequences ______Tracey Corderoy & Hazel Stevens; create a stick man about her mysterious absences. Ka ______with Elizabeth Tindal; and boing on Wigtown Primary, The Hall K Steven Lenton is leading a double life. When Topher 4pm | £3.50 | Family Fideri Fidera Shifty McGifty the bouncy castle. [C47] follows her back through time, he A Big Wig-twist on the classic game Oskar’s Amazing Wigtown Primary, The Hall Theatre finds himself in some trouble. [C32] of consequences. What creatures will Adventure 1pm | FREE | 5+ Children’s Festival Planning our team of illustrators reveal? Bring Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse Edinburgh International Book Festival is supported by aCceSs Ailie Finlay & Marie your imagination. [C38] 10am | FREE | Family 2-8 favourites bring the misadventures Jayne Baldwin, Renita Boyle, Louise Cochrane Elizabeth Ezra, 2.30pm, Saturday 29 September Guest programmed by Vivian French Oskar leaves the snowbound house of Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam Joyce Cochrane, Grace Crichton, A Multi-sensory Story Adventure on top of the mountain to try to to Wigtown. Shifty and Sam find Matt Kitson, Marie McCann, Kelly Milven, Cora Sharp, Wigtown Primary, The Treehouse Gwen Millward, 2.30pm, Saturday 29 September find a friendly animal to play with. themselves in the magical streets of Sarah Stewart 11.30am | £3.50 / Carers Free | Family But where are all the animals? This Paris but Cunning Sly has stolen the Big Wig is illustrated by Intriguing tactile props and interesting original play for young children spectacular gingerbread Eiffel Tower Claudia Bolt and designed smells await, with stories, songs mixes storytelling, physical theatre, they have baked for an important by Krista Robertson and joining-in. Particularly suitable clowning, puppetry, music and song exhibition. Will they catch him in time? The Big Wig programme is for children with additional needs. to tell the tale of a puppy’s search Guest programmed by Catherine curated by Anne Barclay Numbers limited. Lasts 40 mins. [C33] for friendship. Lasts 45 mins. [C40] Jones [C43] 48 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 49 sun23SEPT Love Simon 6.30pm | The Print Room | FILM £5 / U26 Free Life becomes complicated for 17-year-old Simon Spier 2018www.facebook.com/ when he falls in love with wigtownthefestival one of his classmates online. @WigtownTheFest The trouble is, he doesn’t #WigtownTheFestW know their identity and he wigtown:wtf. the festival hasn’t told his family and friends that he’s gay. Cert

Curated by Wigtown’s sat22SEPT PG-13. 110 mins. [W12] young adult team, Survival School this programme of out doors 10.30am | The Culture sun23SEPT entertaining, thought Club | £5 / U26 Free Nicky Singer, 11.30am, Sunday 23 September provoking and creative What essential skills do we need Nicky Singer’s events is aimed at under to survive in the wild? Join Mick Survival Game 25s, though everyone’s Kitson to explore the outdoors 11.30am | The Culture Club | welcome. Come and read, and see how resourceful you can £5 / U26 Free write, make, discuss and be in finding warmth and shelter. Your instinct is everything. be inspired. Lasts 90 mins. [W03] Could you survive with only your identity papers and a gun with no Supported by Dungeons and Dragons bullets? As Mhairi Ann explores WTF vs Guests, 4pm, Sunday 23 September 1pm–4pm | Church Hall | £5 / the world, an unlikely companion W U26 Free changes her life. [W08] Join dungeon master Gabe Kenny in a Lovecraftian tale of excitement Spellslinger John Young’s and adventure. No experience John Young, 2.30pm, Sunday 23 September 1pm | The Culture Club | £5 / Farewell Tour of an required. Numbers limited. [W04] U26 Free Eternal Optimist fri21SEPT As young magician Kellen faces 2.30pm | The Culture Club | £5 / You Learn Something Alex Wheatle’s Home Boys his toughest challenge, his magic U26 Free tue25SEPT State of Play New Every Day 2.30pm | The Culture Club | £5 / disappears. Is the mysterious dark Connor Lambert is determined to 4pm-8pm | The Culture Club | £5 / 12.30pm | The Culture Club | £5 U26 Free stranger his only hope? A gripping show the world that his cancer Rutendo Tavengerwei’s U26 Free / U26 Free Four friends run away from their fantasy series from the acclaimed doesn’t define him and forms an Hope Is Our Only Wing Join Iain Nisbet and Alasdair Writer and explorer Robert children’s home. In the woods they Sebastien de Castell. [W09] unlikely friendship with fellow 5.30pm | The Print Room | Free Rutherford for a laid-back evening Twigger says that regularly feel a sense of freedom, yet the forest juvenile, Skeates. Police chases, In the face of adversity, Shamiso of role-playing, fast thinking card learning a small skill is the key to has its own power and what happens wild parties and an imprisoned and Tanyaradzwa form an unlikely games and exciting board games happiness. Test his theory. Come will affect the four boys’ lives forever. father will have you on the edge of friendship. Confronting her fear with links to the real-world and and write. [W05] Inspired by personal experience. your seat. [W10] of loss, Shamiso opens herself up fantasy-based fiction. Whether Powerful and moving. [W06] to more heartache by befriending you are an experienced player or WTF vs Guests – Let the someone who’s ill, while she tries just starting out come along and Ready, Set, Write Game Show Begin to find out what happened the WORK have a go. [W01] SHOP 4pm | The Culture Club 4pm | The Culture Club | £5 / night of her father’s death. [W13] | £5 / U26 Free U26 Free Festival Fireworks This autumn, young people will Victors for two consecutive Blade Runner 8.15pm | Wigtown Square | Free create large pieces of visual art, years, the WTF team take on new FILM 7pm | The Culture Club Come and watch the festival start inspired by the written word. challengers in a battle to retain | Free with a bang! Kirkcudbright and Poet and novelist Claire Askew their title. This year you can help Harrison Ford stars in the 1982 sci- District Pipe Band leads the way hands you the tools to write your take on festival guests in a popular fi thriller. Four fugitive replicants for fireworks over Wigtown Bay. response to their work. Poem, TV game show extravaganza or escape back to earth but there’s a [W02] diary extract or short story – it’s up support your chosen side from the blade runner in pursuit. Cert R. 117 Mick KItson, 10.30am, Saturday 22 September By kind permission of Bayview Nursery to you. Lasts 90 mins. [W07] Sebastien de Castell, 1pm, Sunday 23 September audience. [W11] mins. [W14]

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sun30SEPT Julian Baggini’s Real You Everyone 1pm | The Culture Club | £5 / WORK WTF Team 2018 SHOP Can Write U26 Free 2.30pm | Church Hall | The Dreaded Draw Off 4pm | The Culture Club | £5 Who or what is the real you? Delve Free Escape Rooms / U26 Free 10am-6pm | Wigtown Primary | head first into the philosophy of Author Shalla Gray believes W The WTF classic is back and £10 / U26 Free some of life’s big questions as we anyone can write a story. Learn the better than ever. Sketch along Escape Rooms, 10am-6pm, Saturday 29 September Escape the 1950’s Asylum. Quick explore some fundamental and rules of writing and then push the with visiting illustrators and wits, fast thinking and sound mind-blowing ideas. You might boundaries as you start your own test your skills and speed. problem-solving skills are needed leave the room with a different best-seller. Lasts 90 mins. [W22] wed26SEPT And there’s a twist – this before the time runs out and the outlook on life and those around year’s theme is horror! [W28] Fox and the Hound nightmare really begins… [W18] you. [W20] The Fox Girl and theatre Theatre presents the White Gazelle Blackout Spoken Word and Mental Health 4pm | Wigtown Primary | Free Fairy Tales are 7pm | The Culture Club | £5 / Performance Poetry panel Laid Bare Reema will never call this strange for Everyone U26 Free 11am | The Culture Club | £5 / 2.30pm | The Culture country home – Syria is her home 1pm-3.30pm | The Culture Club | James chooses a destructive path U26 Free Club | £5 / U26 Free and it’s a million miles away. Caylin £5 / U26 Free to cope with bullying. He spirals out Take your first steps in generating Stripped back and relaxed, this looks after her mum and steals so Fairy tales can be bright and of control but is forced to face up ideas, having fun with words, writing, intimate panel discussion explores she can eat. The two can’t imagine breezy, or dark and scary. They to the consequences of his actions and battling those nerves as we write what mental health really means being friends, until a shared secret can be set in the past, the present, when he wakes in a cell. Followed poetry for performance with Jenny today. Our guests Amy Conway, brings them together. Victoria or the future. Come and create by a Q&A. Contains swearing and Lindsay. No previous experience Jenny Lindsay and John Connell Williamson introduces her your own tale in pictures and teen/adult themes. [W15] necessary. Sharing optional. explore stereotypes, impacts and uplifting debut novel. [W23] Victoria Williamson, 4pm, Saturday 29 September words with help from Debi Gliori Lasts 90 mins. [W19] definitions of the different types of and Vivian French. Deep and thur27SEPT mental health across all genders A Life in Comics her quest for good mental health. For dangerous? Merrily magic? The and ages. They also take a look at 4pm | The Culture Club | £5 / adults and young people – an honest, choice is yours... [W27] The Red Line what help is out there when you U26 Free open and sensitive performance. 5.30pm | The Culture Club | £5 / know where to look. Underground comic veteran [Recommended 12+] [W25] U26 Free [STRICTLY 14+] [W21] Jim Stewart discusses comics Jenna Reid plays new music and self-publishing in Scotland. sun30SEPT with words by Debi Gliori as they Followed by an audience Q&A. give their response to stories of [STRICTLY 18+] [W24] Repeat, Repeat! WORK refugees who are making Scotland SHOP 11am | County their safe haven. [W16] Amy Conway’s Buildings, Nature Guest programmed by Debi Gliori theatre Super Awesome Room | £5 / U26 Free World Astrid Jaekel demonstrates how sat29SEPT 7.30pm | The Culture Club | £5 / to create a seamless repeating U26 Free pattern and shows you how to As the darkness stirs, stretches its design and make your own using Vivian French, 1pm, Sunday 30 September Wake up to Yoga Astrid Jaekel, 11am, Sunday 30 September 9.45am | The Culture Club | Free poisonous form and flexes its claws, a variety of lo-tech printmaking. All Unwind, relax and destress with Amy steps back into the immersive you need to bring is an object that Jessica Fox. Lasts 45 mins. [W17]. Yoga, 10am, Saturday 29 September world of gaming as she embarks on inspires you. [W26]

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Festival office The Kist Booking Information Wigtown Festival Company “Kist” is an old word for offices, including the Box Office, treasure chest. Situated in front It is possible to book securely online, in person or by phone. are located at 11 North Main of the County Buildings, The Kist Identifying numbers are provided for each event in listings to Street, Wigtown. For opening is the place to find art, crafts, make booking easier. hours and details of how to book, food and drink, and homeware see panel (left). Our friendly staff from Dumfries & Galloway and BY PHONE and volunteers will be happy to beyond. Open 10am-5pm (6.30pm During office hours: Tel 01988 403222 try to answer any queries that weekends). Wigtown’s weekend you may have. market also runs from 10am-4pm. IN PERSON Our box office is at Concessions The Swallow Theatre 11 North Main Street, Wigtown, DG8 9HN. Subject to availability, visitors A magical venue, located in Opening hours are: under-26 can attend events in the beautiful countryside about In advance of the festival: Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm main programme (excluding food 20 minutes’ drive from During the festival: Daily 9am-6.30pm and drink events) for free. Book in Wigtown, The Swallow is advance by phone or at the box Scotland’s smallest theatre. ONLINE BOOKING office. ID may be requested on It will be presenting four Via our website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at collection. Not available online. different shows during the www.wigtownbookfestival.com Registered students over 25 and festival. For full details, please the wageless can buy tickets for £2 Around & About see www.swallowtheatre.co.uk. Payment can be made by: on the door for main programme CASH, CHEQUE, CREDIT/DEBIT CARD events from 15 minutes before the Our venues RSPB Crook of Baldoon start, subject to availability. This Our main venues are: the County Wigtown Book Festival is delighted Conditions Wigtown Festival Company does not exchange or refund tickets. WFC reserves the right to alter the programme or substitute speakers without prior notice if circumstances dictate. If the ticketed event concession is valid, on production Buildings; the Festival Marquee, to have the RSPB as an associate proceeds but not as advertised, WFC will exchange your ticket(s) for another event of similar value but does of ID, from 10am-6pm. Certain which has been reconfigured this sponsor. Visit the RSPB nature not offer a refund. If an event is cancelled outright WFC will offer a full refund. exclusions apply. Free tickets are year so the main entrance is now reserve at the Crook of Baldoon, also provided for carers. on North Main Street opposite the just outside Wigtown, which offers box office; The Print Room, just a panorama of saltmarsh, mudflats Become a Wigtown Book Festival Friend Accessibility round the corner from the box office and hills. Go to www.rspb.org.uk Visitors with particular access needs on New Road; and the McNeillie for details or visit the RSPB stand in As a registered charity, Wigtown Book Festival relies on the are invited to contact us on 01988 Tent, which is located in the garden The Kist. generosity of our supporters to develop our activities each 403222. An access statement behind The Old Bank Bookshop. year. Please help us by becoming a Festival Friend. This can be found on our website or Our young adult venue aimed at Wigtown in Bloom year’s fee is £20 to celebrate our 20th anniversary. Renewal is available from our office. The 13-25s is The Culture Club located The team that keeps Wigtown information will be sent out in June each year. Benefits include: County Buildings Main Hall, Festival outside the County Buildings. blooming will be serving teas to Marquee and McNeillie Tent are Most children’s events take place raise funds in the Baptist Church • 20% discount on all ticket bookings* equipped with induction loops for at Wigtown Primary School. All on Saturday 22 Sept, 10am-4pm. (20th anniversary special) people with hearing difficulties. the above venues are within five • An invitation to the festival launch party on StageTEXT surtitles will be provided minutes’ walk of one another. Church service Friday 21 September in the County Buildings, Main Hall, Following the conclusion of on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 Festival Bookshop the festival, Wigtown’s churches You can also become a Friend for Life for £250, which also September. The Festival Bookshop is situated will hold a joint service in the receives 20% discount this year (normally 10%), and the beside the Festival Marquee. It Festival Marquee at 6.30pm on additional benefit of a pair of free tickets to an event of your Environment hosts book signings and contains Sun 30 Sept. All welcome. choice every year and two pairs in the first year. To become a The festival is committed to books by all the writers appearing at Friend, Friend for Life or find our about other ways of reducing its environmental impact. the festival. In advance of the event, Charity Please help by considering ride- some titles are also available at our Our chosen charity, Fight for supporting Wigtown Book Festival, please visit our website: sharing or public transport during shop, 11 North Main Street which Sight, funds medical research www.wigtownbookfestival.com/supporters or your visit and by placing used is open 10am-5pm on weekdays into the causes of blindness. phone the office on 01988 402036. brochures and waste material in the and 10am-6.30pm at weekends Please consider supporting them. *excluding tickets sold on behalf of other organisations recycling bins provided. during the festival. www.fightforsight.org.uk 54 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 55 visiting festival Funding medical S research to For local taxis: Marys Taxi: 01671 403035 stop sight loss McLeans Taxis: 01671 404131 Swift Cars: 07927 843602 Call us on: 020 7264 3900 Accommodation Visit our website: For places to stay: fightforsight.org.uk www.wigtownbookfestival.com www.visitdumfriesand Well-Read Books of Wigtown Help us stop sight loss galloway.co.uk in its tracks. Wide-ranging selection of second-hand www.visitsouthwestscotland.com adult, YA and junior readers fiction, history, Text EYES08 £5 to 70070 biography, transport and travel. to donate £5. Camping The campsite is back, offering Browse, Buy, Blether about Books. visitors the chance to sleep out under some of the darkest skies in The town’s newest bookshop, opening Britain within a couple of minutes’ in time for the 20th Book Festival. walk of the festival site. £12 per pitch per night. Basic portable toilet Travel & Accommodation and shower facilities. Tents only. Pre- 1-3 Agnew Crescent (next to The Open Book) booking is essential. Please contact email:m [email protected] Situated in the Machars area of By bus the box office. Caravan site details mobile: 07850 154 029 Registered Charity Number 1111438 Galloway in south-west Scotland, Several operators including National can be found on our website. Wigtown is located where the Express (08717 818181) run buses River Cree estuary meets the from Dumfries to Newton Stewart, Solway Firth, with a view towards from where you can pick up local KIRKCUDBRIGHT the Galloway Hills. services to Wigtown. Please visit www.dumgal.gov.uk/timetables for By car (postcode DG8 9HN) details. Head for Newton Stewart from all directions, taking the turn off Contacts for Wigtown (A714) at the A75 National Rail Enquiries: roundabout. Please allow at least 03457 484950 Glasgow Edinburgh Berwick-upon-Tweed two and a half hours from Glasgow, Journey planning: Kilmarnock three hours from Edinburgh, two and www.traveline.info Ayr M74 Books a half hours from Carlisle, an hour For ferries: and a quarter from Dumfries, and 45 www.stenaline.co.uk Dumfries 5-14 Oct '18 Wigtown Newcastle-upon-Tyne minutes from Stranraer or Cairnryan. www.poferries.com Stranraer Carlisle Ten days of performances, art Sheet Music www.aferry.co.uk M6 installations and illuminated By rail Belfast Kendal experiences. Celebrating the Edinburgh trains stop at Lockerbie; inspirational light of from London Euston change at Carlisle for Dumfries. Onward travel is possible Kirkcudbright. Blackpool from both towns by bus (see below). From Glasgow, the nearest stations Manchester are Stranraer and Barrhill. Buses from Barrhill village are limited, so please check before you travel. Scotrail offers a 20% discount on group For the latest news and information www.oldbankbookshop.co.uk bookings of 10 or more on some visit www.kirkcudbrightlight.com journeys, by booking 3 weeks prior to travel. Telephone 03448 110141. 56 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 57 The Swallow Theatre visiting festival Scotland’s Smallest Theatre S Bookshop Directory

At The Sign of the Dragon Faodail St Ninians, New Road, DG8 9JL 7 North Main Street, DG8 9HN Tel: 01988 403446 Tel: 07880 359943 [email protected] Daily 9am-5.30pm www.atthesignofthedragon.co.uk Drama Music Family Workshops Venue Hire Daily 11am-6pm Number 11 Creative retreat with on-site accommodation Scotland’s North Main Street, DG8 9HN National Beltie Books and Café Tel: 01988 402036 Moss Park, Whithorn, Newton Stewart. DG8 8DR Book Town 6 Bank Street, DG8 9HP Daily 9am-5pm www.swallowtheatre.co.uk In the mid-1990s, it was Tel: 01988 402730 Box Office : 01988 850368 suggested that a ‘book [email protected] The Old Bank Bookshop town’ on the model of www.beltiebooks.co.uk 7 South Main Street, DG8 9EH Hay-on-Wye would be a Daily 9am-5pm Tel: 01988 402111 good way to help regenerate [email protected] a community in Scotland. The Book End Studio www.oldbankbookshop.co.uk Six small towns with 23 North Main Street, DG8 9HL Daily 9am-7pm varying economic needs Tel: 01988 402403 submitted bids. Half were [email protected] The Open Book from Dumfries & Galloway Opening times vary 2 High Street, DG8 9HQ – Gatehouse of Fleet, Tel: 01988 402010 Wigtown and Moffat. The The Bookshop [email protected] others were Dalmellington, 17 North Main Street, DG8 9HL Daily 9.30am-5.30pm Dunblane and Strathaven. Tel: 01988 402499 An international panel [email protected] ReadingLasses chose Wigtown. www.the-bookshop.com Bookshop & Café The former county town Daily 9am-7pm 17 South Main Street, DG8 9EH of Wigtownshire had been Tel: 01988 403266 at its lowest ebb. There were Curly Tale Books [email protected] many empty and run-down 18 North Main Street, DG8 9HL Daily 10am-7pm properties, and the almost Tel: 01988 402896 derelict County Buildings [email protected] Shoots & Leaves on the town square were www.curlytalebooks.co.uk Bookshop & Café threatened with demolition. Daily 10am-5pm 20 South Main Street, DG8 9EH Wigtown then had one Tel: 01988 402249 of the highest levels of [email protected] unemployment in Scotland, Byre Books but the town boasted a 24 South Main Street, DG8 9EH Daily 9am-10pm beautiful setting and a Tel: 01988 402133 rich history. [email protected] WebbooksUK.com Ltd Now there are more www.byrebooks.co.uk Online sales only than a dozen bookshops Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Tel: 01988 402190 and related businesses here. Sun 11am-4pm [email protected] In 1999 the new Scottish www.webbooksUK.com Parliament acknowledged Craigard Gallery Wigtown as Scotland’s 13 North Main Street, DG8 9HL Well-Read Books of Wigtown National Book Town and Tel: 07903 044929 1-3 Agnew Crescent, DG8 9DS in the same year the ﬁrst [email protected] Tel: 07850 154 029 Wigtown Book Festival www.craigardgallery.co.uk [email protected] took place. Daily 10am-5pm Daily 10am-7pm

58 wigtownbookfestival.com Wigtown Book Festival 2018 59 visitingS festival Food & Drink Parking wigtown C To Newton 19Stewart 6 Festival Café Town centre parking is limited. Extra parking is LOWV E N N E L P 3 The Festival Café is on the first floor of the County within close walking distance and disabled parking Venue Buildings. Open 9.30am-6pm at weekends (10am-5pm is provided during the festival. It is shown on the Book Shop L A N E weekdays), it serves snacks, light meals, tea and coffee. map. Please follow the signs to the Old Showfield 25 (Southfield Park) when you enter Wigtown. Restaurant N E W R OA D The Kist 2 i Information 5 i Situated outside the County Buildings, The Kist sells local, Outside Wigtown LOCHANCROFT 17 BANK STREET regional and national food, drink, visual arts and crafts. P Disabled Parking H IG H V E N N E L Open 10am-6.30pm at weekends (10am-5pm weekdays). 27 8 7 i T P Festival Parking Venues STREET 4 Maps showing directions to events at venues outside 21 23 9 Other places to eat and drink include: T Toilet H 20 1 town (listed below) are available from the box office. BOTANY 26 AR B Beltie Books and Café C Festival Camping Most of these venues are around 15-30 minutes’ drive 16 P 12 10

6 Bank Street, DG8 9HP. Tel: 01988 402730 T OUR from Wigtown. Wherever possible, we will help ﬁnd SOUTH MAIN11 STREET15 Daily 9am-5pm 24 transport (usually car-share) to events outside N 30 i 22 Bladnoch Inn Wigtown. Please contact the box ofﬁce. Printed 18 R NORTH32 MAIN STREET OA Main Street, Bladnoch, DG8 9AB. Tel: 01988 402200 directions for drivers are also available, while postcodes 29 Daily 12pm-11pm for sat-nav are given below. D

13 Harbour Wigtown to SOUTHFIELD LANE P 14 Café Rendezvous Postcodes TO BLADNOCH 28 2 Agnew Crescent, DG8 9DS. Tel: 01988 402074 Crafty Distillery 6.2 miles (DG8 6AS) Mon-Sat 9am-8pm; Sun 10am-6pm Newton Stewart Cinema 6.9 miles (DG8 6NL) Garlieston Harbour 8.4 miles (DG8 8BB) 31 Cobwebs to Muga & Bladnoch Galloway Home Farm 8.6 miles (DG8 8HF) 31 South Main Street, DG8 9HG. Tel: 01988 402097 The Swallow Theatre 8.9 miles (DG8 8DR) Daily 11am-10pm. Evening booking advisable. Cruggleton Church 10.4 mils (DG8 8HL) 1 Festival Marquee Allsorts, 15 North Main St Craft Hotel & Restaurant Whithorn Visitor Centre 10.8 miles (DG8 8NS) 16 Wigtown Market 30 South Main Street, DG8 9HG. Tel: 01988 403236 Old Place of Mochrum 11.2 miles (DG8 9RS) 2 The Print Room 17 Number 11 (including box ofﬁce) Bayview Nursery, 19 Bank St Daily 9am-9pm; Bar open until midnight Glasserton Old Kirk 13.4 miles (DG8 8JU) 3 Wigtown Parish Church 18 Craft Briars Engravers, 12 North Main St Delicious Fish and Chips 4 The Bookshop 19 At the Sign of the Dragon The Biggest Little Store in Town, 30 North Main St Wigtown Square, DG8 9HL. Tel: 07724244224 5 Up the Garden Path, Pop Up Bar 20 Book End Studio The Co-operative, 31 North Main St Tue 4pm-7pm bladnoch 6 Children’s Festival 21 Curly Tale Books S Cronnie Family Butcher, 2 North Main St B7005 (including The Hall & The Treehouse) Galloway Bar 22 Byre Books Dalston Pharmacy, 20 North Main St 24 South Main Street, DG8 9EH. Tel: 01988 402431 7 County Buildings 23 Hippidippies, 25 South Main St N (including Main Hall, Festival Café, Library, Festival Bookshop Mon-Thur 2pm-11.30pm; Fri 2pm-1am; Sat 12pm- W O Nature Room & Supper Room) 1am; Sun 12.30pm-11.30pm T 24 Shoots & Leaves Low Vennel Garage, Low Vennel G I W 8 The Kist 31 25 Beltie Books & Café Machars Action, 26 South Main St ReadingLasses O A714

DISTILLERY T N 9 The Culture Club 26 The Old Bank Bookshop Post Ofﬁce, 27 South Main St 17 South Main Street, DG8 9EH. Tel: 01988 403266 TO W WI G Daily 10am-7pm TO 10 McNeillie Tent NOCH 27 Craigard Gallery & Books PS Carpets, 1 Duncan Park

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T 20 South Main Street, Wigtown, DG8 9EH. Tel: 12 Sacred Heart Church 29 Café Rendezvous Studio N, 14 North Main St w o 01988 402249 ll a 13 The Open Book w 30 Galloway Bar Traditions, 32 North Main St S

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