Wigtown Book Festival: Sunday 5th October
10.30am - Rodge Glass - Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography
Now this brilliant young writer has produced a unique biography, applying Gray’s own fictional techniques to the story of his life, and playing Boswell to his former boss’s Dr Johnson.
10.30am - Andy Hall - A Sense of Belonging to Scotland.
The photographer travels through the Scottish landscape capturing favourite places of well-known personalities.
12noon - David Steel - A Life in Books
Sir David Steel has had a distinguished career in politics, from leading the Liberal Party to his role as first presiding officer in the new Scottish Parliament. But more than most politicians he has always had a large cultural “hinterland”.
12noon - Meagan Delahunt and Robin Jassin-Kassab - The Red Book and The Road from Damascus
Previously shortlisted for the Orange Prize, in The Red Book Meaghan Delahunt beautifully captures the fascination that India exercises on visitors.
1.30pm - Christopher Brookmyre - A Snowball in Hall
Christopher Brookmyre’s comic thrillers are known for satirising aspects of modern life.
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Add to BasketAlasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography - Hardback -
£25.00
Glass plays Boswell to Gray's Johnson in this humorous yet rigorous biography. Glass has used the inventive techniques of Gray's fiction to bear, mixing a chronological narrative of his subject's life with his own diaries of meeting, getting to know and working with the celebrated artist, writer and campaigner. -
Add to BasketThe Red Book - Paperback -
£10.99
20 years after the Bhopal gas disaster, three lives are bound together by a series of coincidences in this beautifully-written novel. -
Add to BasketA Sense Of Belonging To Scotland: The Complete Collection - Paperback -
£20.00
Breathtaking photographs of the favourite places of celebrities, including Emma Thompson, Colin Montgomerie, Denis Law and Elizabeth Blackadder. All of them describe in their own words what makes their chosen corner of Scotland so special to them. -
Add to BasketA Snowball In Hell - Hardback -
£16.99
If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the average talent show contestant. He's also got the media taped by the simple expedient of bypassing them completely and posting his killings on the Internet.
