Do you dream of packing in the 9 to 5 and opening a bookstore amidst the hills and heather of Scotland? If you do, you probably dismiss the fantasy as a pipe dream — but that’s where The Open Book ...

WIGTOWN, Scotland — Isak Dinesen had a farm in Africa. Recently, if only for a day, I had a bookstore in Scotland. It wasn’t easy to get to Wigtown, in the remote Dumfries and Galloway region of ...

Watch footage of the historic Scottish town, which is preparing to host its annual book festival next month - with speakers including Nicola Surgeon and Sir John Kay. Did you know with a Digital ...

• Cruggleton Lodge, Galloway; 1988-600-694, www.gallowayhouseestate.co.uk. Self-catering home is about $130 a night (summertime rates higher). The McCreaths have three other rentals on the property, ...

If you've ever dreamed of running your own bookshop in a picturesque town full of bibliophiles, now's your chance. For anyone curious about the life of a bookshop owner, The Open Book in Wigtown, ...

There's no easy way to get to Wigtown. Planes and trains stop hours shy of the remote village on Scotland's sea-swept west coast. With so much peace and quiet, it almost makes sense that the tiny town ...

Still Game star Greg Hemphill is set to headline the Wigtown Book Festival next month. Springburn-born Hemphill, who played Victor to Ford Keirnan’s Jack in the long-running BBC sitcom, will appear ...

Dreaming big: US-born Fox had her own distinctive path to Wigtown. A former NASA employee in California, she packed it all up after fantasizing about a bookshop by the sea in Scotland. She never ...