Charlotte McDonald-Gibson has covered the global refugee crisis for many years. In Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis she tells the personal stories of five refugees.
Children's author Philip Ardagh is a popular and regular feature at the Children's Festival at the Wigtown Book Festival. He's got a new collaborator: illustrator and author Elissa Elwick. And a new pet: Leafy.
Kathy Agnew from the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust explains how the house in Dumfries that inspired JM Barrie's Peter Pan is being given a new lease of life to inspire children's literature.
"When he grips you, he never lets go," author Cally Phillips says of 19th Century Galloway writer SR Crockett. "It's Boys' Own stuff," she tells the Wigtown Book Festival, adding he's "more readable" than Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Six years ago Anna Pasternak came to Wigtown Book Festival to talk about her famous great uncle - Boris Pasternak, author of Dr Zhivago. She revealed she was writing a book about the real life inspiration between his nobel prize winning novel. Anna said when she'd finished it she would come back. She did. Her book is called Lara - and it promises to be a gripping and revealing tale.
Dorothy Rayner is a volunteer @WigtownBookFest. Her real job is in a Stately home where she's a Furniture and Textiles Conservator. Dorothy joined the WTF team to talk about how she got her job and what she does. Some of the WTF team would like to follow in her footsteps!
Peggy Hughes chats to Shelley Day about her first novel - The Confession of Stella Moon. Fresh out of the McNeillie Tent where the audience were treated to tea and cakes they talked about Stella Moon and also Shelley's many different lives before writing her novel.
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