Wigtown Book Festival: Wednesday 1st October
10.30am - David Hopes - Burns's Books
Robert Burns was inspired by many things: music, nature, politics. But a huge influence was his early reading. David Hopes, curator of Robert Burns’s Birthplace Museum in Alloway, talks about how the poet’s world view was shaped.
11am - Denise Mina - The Last Breath
Denise Mina talks to Catriona Taylor about the third novel in her award winning Paddy Meehan crime series.
12.30pm - Meet the Authors Lunch - With Denise Mina, Fiona Gibson and Kirsty Scott
Enjoy a light lunch and a glass of wine with some of the day's speakers.
2.30pm - Kirsty Scott - Between You and Me
In Kirsty Scott’s Between You and Me, two old school friends find their lives changed by a class reunion.
2.30pm - Haig Gordon - The Wigtownshire Companion
In his impressively detailed book, the broadcaster offers an entertaining and informative guide to the places, history and personalities of Wigtownshire.
4.30pm - Catriona McPherson - Bury Her Deep
Dandy Gilver could give Miss Marple a run for her money. In her latest adventure, the 1920s society sleuth investigates after a stranger starts pouncing on members of the Women’s Rural Institute.
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Add to BasketBetween You And Me - Paperback -
£6.99
Cate and Margie shared traumatic teenage years and left school promising to be friends forever. 20 years later they've drifted to the opposite ends of the country and communicate through Christmas cards. A class reunion brings them back together, reminding them how much fun a best friend can be and sending their lives in new directions. -
Add to BasketBury Her Deep - Paperback -
£7.99
'Bury Her Deep' is set in Scotland shortly after the Great War and features Dandy Gilver, an upper-class amateur sleuth. The first Dandy Gilver book, 'After the Armistice Ball', was nominated for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger of 2005. -
Add to BasketThe Last Breath - Paperback -
£7.99
Paddy Meehan is devastated when former boyfriend Terry Patterson is found murdered. As she begins her investigation into his death, she realises that if the secret he was about to expose was worth killing for, she is next in line.
