Its the last day of the festival and the words are being rounded up  in Wigtown. I shall take the words away and begin to think of how to develop the work for Spring Fling in May 2010 . Many ideas have been suggested ......bunting to wrap the town in words, poetry slams, donating the words back to writers ..kites flying over Wigtown with words .... 

I now need to spend time digest the words, the experience and information gathered.  I  have quite a few books to read also after hearing  great writers speak at events ..

mona siddiqui

Wigtown recommends ( by Sarah Sheridan blogging for the festival)
We asked Wigtown authors to donate their finest reading suggestion. Here are 20 Scottish Book Town recommended reads and their provenance.

At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien recommended by James Robertson
Animal Farm by George Orwell recommended by JF Derry
The Extinction Club by Robert Twigger recommended by William Coles
Uncle Petros and Golbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis recommended by Alex Bellos
The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson recommended by Irma Kurtz
1066 And All That by Sellar and Yeatman recommended by Owen Dudley Edwards
Comet in Moominland by Tove Jensson recommended by Debi Gliori
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal recommended by Charlie James
In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch recommended by Tiffany Murray
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine and Geoffrey Strachan recommended by Allan Massie
Arctic Dreams by Barney Lopez recommended by Jim Crumley
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe recommended by Tom Smith
Water Music by TC Boyle recommended by Sara Sheridan
The Incredible Adam Spark by Alan Bissett recommended by Barbara Trapido
Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich recommended by Henry Nicholls
Possession by AS Byatt recommended by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
The Mirabelles by Annie Freud recommended by Alan Buckley
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe recommended by Fiona Watson
Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers recommended by Andy Lane
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James recommended by Kei Miller







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