Wigtown Book Festival: Saturday 4th October
10.30am - Lydia Syson - Doctor of Love
Widely credited as the world's first sex therapist, Dr James Graham treated Sir Walter Scott, the Duchess of Devonshire and the famous courtesan Mary Robinson.
1.30pm - Kathleen Jamie - Selected Poems
Winner of the prestigious Forward Prize, Kathleen Jamie is one of the most important poets writing today and a powerful observer of the natural world.
1.30pm - Andrew Davidson and Shona MacLean - The Gargoyle and The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle caused a multi-million pound bidding war from publishers last year. Shona MacLean's The Redemption of Alexander Seaton is a mystery set in 17th century Scotland.
2pm - Crichton Writers Anthology Launch - Scratching the Surface
The Dumfries-based creative-writing group launches its latest anthology, which has an archaeological theme.
3pm - Sophie Hannah and Karen Campbell - The Twilight Time
Former Stratchclyde police officer Karen Campbell has used her time in uniform to inform her gritty first novel set on Glasgow's mean streets.
4.30pm - Stuart Kelly and Willy Maley - Scottish Writing: Golden Age or Age of Hype?
Is Scottish writing going through a golden age? Or are the nation’s literary cheerleaders guilty of over-hyping the available talent?
6pm - Andrew Drummond - Elephantina
After an elephant dies by the roadside near Dundee, doctor and closet Jacobite Patrick Blair embarks on a mission to become the first man in Britain to dissect the beast.
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Add to BasketElephantina: Together With Some Short Remarks ... Dundee, 1830 - Hardback -
£9.99
It is April 1706. When an elephant dies, just outside of Dundee, Dr Patrick Blair attempts to make his name - and fortune - as the first man in Britain to dissect an elephant. His assistant, Gilbert Orum, meanwhile, plans a different tribute. Andrew Drummond is also the author of 'A Hand-book of Volapük'. -
Add to BasketDoctor Of Love: James Graham And His Celestial Bed - Hardback -
£20.00
Widely accepted as the world's first sex therapist, Dr James Graham was devoted to the research of the effect of physical stimuli on the psyche, and more specifically, on sexual activity. This biography presents a depiction of both the man himself and 18th-century society. -
Add to BasketThe Gargoyle - Hardback -
£16.99
After a horrific car accident which leaves him in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, the narrator of the story meets Marianne Engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles who tells him they were once lovers in medieval Germany. As she tells her tales, he finds himself drawn back to life - and, finally, to love. -
Add to BasketThe Redemption Of Alexander Seaton - Hardback -
£14.99
Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s. -
The Twilight Time - Hardback -
£12.99
Anna Cameron is a new Sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day she discovers she'll be working with her ex, now married with a child. In at the deep end emotionally after many years without him, she's also plunged headlong into the underworld of Glasgow's notorious Drag - the haunt of working girls, drug dealers and sad, seedy men.
