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Wigtownshire Writer Jayne Baldwin’s New Book Revisits The 1850 Steamboat Disaster At Portpatrick

The Wrecking of the Orion 170th Anniversary Families boarding the paddle steamer The Orion at Liverpool in June 1850 had every reason to believe they...
Talking murder in Dalry

Talking Murder In Dalry

The village of Dalry, in Dumfries and Galloway, is to support National Crime Reading Month in June by staging an In Conversation With… event...

Local Award winning Poet Launches Scots Collection ‘AYE’

Stuart A. Paterson who lives near Dalbeattie in Dumfries  and Galloway, was born in 1966, and was raised in a Scots speaking household in...
BORDERS BOOK FESTIVAL CONTINUES THIS WEEKEND

Borders Book Festival Continues This Weekend

The home of Sir Walter Scott opened its doors on Tuesday 2nd November to the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival, bringing together a host...

Borders Book Festival To Celebrate Its 20th Edition With Yet Another Star Studded Summer...

A staple in the June diaries of booklovers the length and breadth of the country is the Borders Book Festival, a firm favourite of...
Out of this world – Wigtown welcomes Mrs Death and invites you to a Meeting of Spirits 

Out Of This World – Wigtown Welcomes Mrs Death & Invites You To A...

This year’s Wigtown Book Festival meets death and then plunges on to discuss what happens afterwards.  Author Salena Godden will be at the festival to discuss her...
Writing Competition Lets Imaginations Roam While Children Are Stuck At Home

Writing Competition Lets Imaginations Roam While Children Are Stuck At Home

With weeks of lockdown stretching ahead it’s the ideal time for young people to exercise their imaginations by entering Dumfries and Galloway’s own children’s...

New Venture For Local Poet, Publisher & Printer

A first venture combining the skills of a poet, publisher and printer has produced a book that has been described as “must have collection...
Shaun Baines

Lockerbie Author Shaun Baines Nominated for The People’s Book Prize

AUTHOR Shaun Baines  from is a Geordie expat  who now lives in Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway. Shaun  latest novel “Woodcutter” which was inspired by Dumfries...
Consultation Launched on Community Buyout of Wigtown Festival Company High Street HQ

Consultation Launched on Community Buyout of Wigtown Festival Company High Street HQ

A consultation is being launched on whether a bid should be made to take the building used as the Wigtown Festival Company HQ into...