I WAS in Wigtown in November, a town with a population of less than 1,000 souls, yet it has 15 bookshops. It is officially Scotland’s “national book town”.
It is home to the Wigtown Book Festival, which is now in its 20th year. The town comes alive every autumn with visitors coming from all over the world. It is heaven for book lovers. As I have written in my piece, “A book town named Wigtown” (https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/culture/2019/11/23/scottish), I met one of the key characters in Wigtown’s journey from obscurity to international fame.
