Now we are seven!
In September 2018, Well-Read Books opened its doors for the first time. Over the six years the stock has expanded considerably and includes a wide range of both fiction and non-fiction. Our stock of carefully selected new books increases on a weekly basis and we try hard to offer customers ‘something different’ from what can be bought in a supermarket. We have a selection of new prints of old favourites at the very attractive price of £5.00 too.
Listen to our Podcasts!
Wigtown booksellers are set on entertaining you – with their thoughts on books they have read, books they would like to recommend, and maybe some they were ambivalent about. The Booktown Blether Podcast will keep you up-to-date with all that is happening on the literary front in Scotland’s National Booktown. Listen on Podbean.
New for 2025
Murder An’ Aw’ That Series. Commencing July we will be running a series of events featuring well-known authors (and maybe some new authors!) discussing their new crime fiction. Our first speaker – all the way from New Zealand – is Liam McIvanney (The Quaker, The Heretic) who will be chatting to Dr David Goldie about his latest thriller ‘The Good Father’, published on 7th July. Tickets, £5.00, are available from Well-Read Books. So, come and join us at The Wigtown Ploughman, on 21st July at 7pm.
In the shop:
We stock a wide variety of new fiction
Non-fiction
With the release of the film adaptation of Raynor Winn’s first novel ‘The Salt Path’ our stock includes The Salt Path, Wild Silence and Landlines. Her story-telling is unique and compelling.
Folio
We stock a super selection of Folio titles, from history covering Great Britain and Europe to Rudyard Kipling and Shakespeare.