6 rooms of quality out-of-print, second-hand & antiquarian books & sheet music, plus curated new book selection in Wigtown, Scotland's National Book Town.
Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway
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Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth2023 today and every day in the far southwest corner of Scotland #choosebookshops #booksaremybag #wigtown
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📣🥳Online pre-orders are now open for the 2025 Wigtown Book Festival Programme 🙌📣.
Order yours now and receive a paper version through your door in mid-August. Follow this link to order 👇
wigtownbookfestival.com/blog…
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✨ Happy #IndieBookshopWeek! ✨
What’s your favourite thing about your local independent bookshop? Let us know! 👇
Celebrate the magic of your local independent bookshop. 🧡
📅 14–21 June
#ChooseBookshops
ALT Independent Bookshop Week social media asset featuring a scenic landscape with a bookshop in the distance. The text says: Shop Local. Shop Independent. Independent Bookshop Week 14-21 June 2025 #IndieBookshopWeek BOOKS ARE MY BAG #CHOOSEBOOKSHOPS
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"There would be something deeply perverse about celebrating the defeat of the extreme right on the battlefield on VE Day while ignoring the fact that much of the West is currently voting for its ideological descendants at the ballot box." theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Love it when authors meet up at #wigtownspringweekend!
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Late to post, but SUCH a brilliant time with @writerkcampbell on Sat with wee Gerard & co at #wigtownspringweekend @WigtownBookFest . #ThisBrightLife so worthy of awards!
Today is the day! Still time to grab a last-minute ticket #wigtownspringweekend in partnership with @wigtownbookfest. Do not miss the chance to meet wee Gerard, Margaret and Claire in #thisbrightlife
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Just days away from hearing all about wee Gerard, Margaret & Claire @writerkcampbell What a rollercoaster of a read @WigtownBookFest !
Great coverage in local press for #wigtownspringweekend 3-5 May @WigtownBookFest @WigtownBookShop @GGallerina @HutchHeinemann @writerkcampbell @QuercusBooks
Wigtown Spring Weekend (3-5 May) is out! Thrilled to be reading advance copies of @writerkcampbell #emmahealey @HutchHeinemann & @GGallerina @RingwoodPublish . Online booking wk beginning 24 March #wigtown
Breaking my silence with a book which MUST win awards. Wee Gerard will capture your heart & stay there. He's up there with @Doug_D_Stuart 's Shuggie Thank you for the #proof @writerkcampbell @canongatebooks You've surpassed yourself with #ThisBrightLife Karen.
So much to love about this out this!
1700 pupils in 38 schools across #dumfriesandgalloway
Last week @chaestrathie @RossAuthor @TaleTwisters and @alastair_ch joined us for the Big DoG Schools Tour to share their love of stories with children across our region.
We’re on Bandcamp. Follow us to be the first to hear when we release new music: thecochranes.bandcamp.com/fo…
So, so proud! Congratulations @WigtownBookFest #ThistleAwards
We won! Wigtown Book Festival is officially Scotland’s Outstanding Cultural Event or Festival. #ThistleAwards
We needed to sing & share the love. Singers Sing an original song by Ian Cochrane @OldBankBooks in #wigtown
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🖼️ 🏴 🌈 📖 Delighted to be curating a show of the Two Roberts’ art for @CharlestonTrust next year. The novel is out in September and the show opens around the same time. Pictures, prints, letters and stories and BEAUTY! Them and their starry world! charleston.org.uk/exhibition…
We are BIG @writerkcampbell fans at the Old Bank in #wigtown & cannot wait to get our hands on the next read !!
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Three years ago my wonderful brother, Wayne, was diagnosed with dementia aged just 56. On Sunday, October 27, his wonderful son, Harry Younge will run the Dublin marathon to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland. Please donate if you can gofundme.com/f/xpc6g-the-alz…
Yeah! Let's here it for #BookshopDay Loving this @jonesgarethp (and yes, we still stock your books❤️📚) #choosebookshops #wigtown
Happy #Bookshopday to all my bookselling friends out there. May your tills ring with the sound of sales. This song was requested by @Wonder_Bookshop, (based on Pancake Day by @Tony_Robinson).
Also for @MarkBowsherFilm
#ChooseBookshops #ScrollTheMusical
Hurrah! It’s #BookshopDay & we are flying the bunting in #wigtown #booktown @booksaremybag @WigtownBookFest #ChooseBookshops
Visit your local bookshop tomorrow and celebrate all the ways they make a difference to our local communities.
🎨: Sophy Henn
#BookshopDay
ALT Orange banner with beautiful artwork by Sophy Henn featuring a bookshop, hardware store, toy shop, clothes shop and patisserie. The text says: Bookshop Day Saturday 12 October Choose Bookshops Local jobs, Local economy, Local community, Real passion, Real people, Real conversations, Proper service, Proper gifts (and taxes paid!) @booksaremybag #BookshopDay