Wigtown has seen an explosion in bookshops. Six years after the festival began, Joyce Cochrane and her husband decided to buy a shop and return home Joyce Cochrane runs the Old Bank Book Shop with ...

A shop on the corner of a small south of Scotland town might not seem like a prime holiday destination. However, the Open Book in Wigtown - which has been running for a decade - now has a two-year ...

Organisers also want audiences to be able to enjoy the "quirkiness, charm and atmosphere" of Wigtown, which is home to more than a dozen book shops. The festival, which runs from 24 September to 4 ...

To mark 25 years of the Wigtown Book Festival we look at the impact the festival has had on the town over that time. We speak to the people behind the original bid to become Scotland's Book Town ...

Running the store was something we had waited for three ... you can learn about the region’s history and traditions. Every ...