| Book Corner 
2 High Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HQ map
tel: 01988 402010 e-mail web
Open: Monday-Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Large general stock on two floors.Specialising in natural history and gardening. Also maintaining a stock of Scottish, fishing,shooting, climbing and much more. Also publish books. We sell art by internationally recognised wildlife artists, and have regular exhibitions of their work.
Changed hands about two years ago! Still specialises in new and secondhand natural history and gardening,but no longer publishes books or has natural history art exhibitions. - Second Nature 01.04.09.
Stock was of a fairly general nature but with some good Southern Scotland titles. Strong on modern fiction and children's books. I was the only customer during my half-an-hour visit. Nothing antiquarian. - Chris Harte 18.06.12.
Byre Books
24 South Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9EH map
tel: 0845 458 3813 e-mail web
Open: Mar - Oct 10.00 - 5.30, Nov - Feb - phone in advance.
Folklore, mythology, storytelling, stage and screen, Scottish and general.
Don't be put off by their name, which means a cowbarn, as this is a small to medium sized, well laid out and friendly shop. Set a garden area behind flats, it has a fairly general selection of mainly reference books. - Jeremy Briggs.
A sterile shop which took a short time to browse. Heavy on theatre and film and a few Scottish titles. We got the impression from the man whacking his laptop that we were intruding into someone's front room so we crept out quietly. - Chris Harte 18.06.12.
Reading Lasses Book Shop
17 South Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9EH map
tel: 01988 403266 fax: 01988 403266 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00 & Sunday: Easter to October: 12noon ? 4.00pm
A stock of approximately 20,000 books specialising in women's studies, lesbian & gay studies and social sciences available by visiting the bookshop and by mail order. Online catalogue with abebooks.com.
Also a cafe. The food may be good value, but the book stock is very highly priced. - Richard 29.07.09.
Located in Scotland's "National Booktown", this is the UK's only bookshop specialising in books about women by women. You want a Women's Press title? They've probably got it. The shop also carries a large range of secondhand academic and general titles in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere enhanced by the smell of freshly ground coffee and home-made brownies from the in-house cafe. Truly a mouthwatering bookshop. Accommodation is also available, which is useful as there are NINE other secondhand-book shops within a two-minute radius of Reading Lasses, and others in the surrounding area. - S+S 16.07.11.
This was the nicest, friendliest and socially warmest place in the whole of Wigtown. The ladies could not have been more helpful. Very strong on imported lesbian & gay studies as well as women's books in general. The cafe's home-made cakes were superb as was their coffee. No wonder the shop was bustling during our visit. - Chris Harte 18.06.12.
Interesting and varied stock, friendly service and good food ... well worth a visit. - Mike 17.08.12.
The Bookend Studio
23 North Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HL map
tel: 01988 402403 e-mail web
Wigtown's newest retail outlet specialising in books, local crafts and pine antique furniture. A relatively small selection of books on a wide variety of subjects, stocked at the rear of the property, allowing for uninterrupted browsing.
Second-hand stock kept at the rear of the shop. Generally books on crafts, gardening, cookery and the like. What the front part of the shop represents was beyond me. Maybe it was art of some kind. - Chris Harte 18.06.12.
The Bookshop
17 North Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HL map
tel: 01988 402499 e-mail web
Scotland's largest second-hand book shop.
Very large ,comprehensive ,quite good quality stock at reasonable prices. Also stocks new Scottish, mainly local, material. - Second Nature 01.04.09.
Good quality stock, prices higher than they should be. Nice to browse in. - PaulP 02.08.11.
I seriously doubt their claim to be "Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop." I can think of at least four larger and with far better and more interesting stock than the tired old offerings presented here. How many runs of 'The Waverley Novels' does it take to claim the record for the most boring titles? I agree that there are good books in this shop, some of which are very rare, but even the completely bored shop assistant admitted that sales this year "are slow." And the prices ... ! - Chris Harte 18.06.12.
The Box of Frogs Children's Bookshop
18 North Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9HL map
tel: 01988 402255 e-mail
Two rooms of secondhand children's books.
Second hand and new children's books. Very friendly and understanding staff who made it a pleasure to visit with a lively 21 month old. - Laura.
It looks like an ordinary children's shop on entering and if it was busy I can see why people could be forgiven for assuming that it was not a second hand bookshop. The two rooms of children's books are hidden away at the back and could probably do with a notice for newcomers to realise that they are there. However they have an excellent medium sized selection of most types of children's books from annuals through paperbacks to collectable hardbacks. Box of Frogs probably has as many children's books as the rest of Wigtown put together. - Jeremy Briggs.
My wife commented that although there were old children's books on many of the shelves, the prices were through the roof. While she was looking at those I was enjoying glancing through substantial holdings of titles by Enid Blyton and W.E. Johns. - Chris Harte 18.06.12.
The Old Bank Book Shop
8 South Main Street
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9EH map
tel: 01988 402111 e-mail
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30, Sundays 12.00 - 5.00.
Now under new ownership our focus will include: fiction, biography, history, politics, international issues, art and design and foreign languages.
Much improved since our last visit.Large very good quality general stock,nicely displayed and at reasonable prices. - Second Nature 01.04.09.
Now probably the best shop in Wigtown. - Richard 29.07.09.
Agree with above, wide range of stock properly priced for Wigtown. - PaulP 02.08.11.
The second best of the bookshops. Quite a number of rooms stock from floor to ceiling with a large section on Scottish interest. A lot of sheet music and a comprehensive art collection. General stock but, in all honesty, mainly for the casual visitor. - Chris Harte 18.06.12.
Transformer
26 Bladnoch
WIGTOWN Dumfries and Galloway DG8 9AB map
tel: 01988 403455 e-mail
General interest and academic secondhand books.
Principally academic books with good sections on science-fiction and crime. Much on the cultural history of the Far East. Also crafts and antiques. - Chris Harte 18.06.12.
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