Wigtown

In Wigtown, a lovely Scottish town in Dumfries and Galloway a few miles south of Newton Stuart, you'd better not say the word e-reader out loud as this is the Book Capital of Scotland, and we're talking about the real paper books, and lots of them. The official title is Scotland's National Book Town! And now I hear you thinking how it became the Book Capital of Scotland? Well Wigtown wasn't the book capital of Scotland all it's life, it just happened years ago to boost the local economy and it has been a success. Wigtown has a good number of second hand bookshops dotted around the town … [Read more...] about Wigtown Book Capital of Scotland