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Designs Gallery Bookshop

Welcome to Designs Gallery Bookshop.  

See our book lists below with titles selected by us or use ‘SEARCH‘ at the top of this page to find the book you are looking for. Once you have found it pop it in your basket or add to your wish list for later. You can also buy Gift Cards to send to all your book loving friends for a special occasion  or just because you want to. 

Designs Gallery also has a bricks and mortar shop at 179 King Street Castle Douglas, SW Scotland DG7 1DZ which is a real hub for designer led crafts, jewellery, homewares, clothing and (of course) books. And our café is a great place to head for when visiting Castle Douglas with plenty of outdoor tables in our walled garden. 

We are also open for online shopping at: www.designsgallery.co.uk

 

 

 

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Good Girl: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Ministry of Time: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
Somewhere Else: Recommended by Miriam Margolyes
AMMA
Crooked Seeds
All Fours
The Dream Hotel: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Persians
Dream Count
Nesting: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025; the tender, soaring debut you won't be able to forget
A Little Trickerie
Birding: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Artist: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025
Tell Me Everything
The Safekeep
I Love Books: Shortlisted for Illustrator of the Year - British Book Awards 2025
The Sad Ghost Club: A Hopeful Guide to Getting Through Bad Days
Beautiful Ugly
Small Things Like These: An Oprah Book Club Pick
The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Orbital
Gliff
Shattered
Everything is Great: The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Modern Britain
Eat the World: A Collection of Poems
Mob One: Delicious meals in one pot, pan or tray
Sizzle & Drizzle: The Green Edition: Over 100 Essential Bakes, Recipes and Tips
Karla's Choice: A John le Carre Novel
Elly's Plate: Plant-based Comfort Food Made Easy
In Ascension: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024
Kala: 'The thriller of the moment'
Family Meal: 'This novel will break your heart twice over'
Under the Tamarind Tree: A beautiful novel of friendship, hidden secrets, and loss
Yawns Freeze Your Brain: Fun and Interesting Facts From Science, History, Life and The Universe
A Boy Called Christmas
Let the Light Pour In
Yr Dead
Looshkin: The Maddest Cat in the World (a Phoenix Comic Book, from the million-selling Jamie Smart, Illustrator of the Year)
Understorey: A Year Among Weeds
My Brilliant Friend: The International No. 1 Bestseller
Goodnight Tokyo: The English language debut from bestselling Japanese author
Dog: A novel
Sylvia Plath's Tomato Soup Cake: A Compendium of Classic Authors' Favourite Recipes - 'I couldn't possibly love this book more!'
London Feeds Itself
Colours, Colours Everywhere: A lift-the-flap adventure from an award-winning duo
The Magic Feather
Life: The beautifully illustrated natural history book for kids
Ocean Meets Sky
The Bear and the Piano
Franklin's Flying Bookshop
Whale in a Fishbowl
The Star in the Forest
Raybearer: The New York Times bestseller, soon to be a major Netflix series
Sleeping Beauty
Picture Puzzler: A natural history
Frindleswylde
The Blue Giant
Illustrated Fairy Tales
The Last Zoo
James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Orbital
Creation Lake: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
Held: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
The Safekeep
Stone Yard Devotional: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
The Proof of My Innocence
1982, Janine
Good As Gold
Beasts Of England
Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on Gulliver's Travels
The Lie of the Land: A very good read indeed' Matt Haig
Perfidious Albion
All My Precious Madness
Tell
Parade
Choice
Spent Light
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking: SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2024
Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Easy Wins: 12 Flavour Hits, 125 Delicious Recipes, 365 Days of Good Eating
Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You
You Are Here: The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller, from the author of One Day
Romantic Comedy
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise
Soldier Sailor: 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS
Sebze: Vegetarian Recipes from My Turkish Kitchen
IDLES x Magda Archer Brutalism: Illustrated Lyrics
Lobster: and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe
The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There
The Green Roasting Tin: Vegan and Vegetarian One Dish Dinners
Devorgilla Days: finding hope and healing in Scotland's book town
Small Things Like These: The Irish Times readers' choice for best Irish book of the century
Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
Stone Yard Devotional: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
What I Ate in One Year : (And related thoughts)
Trees in Winter: Fully illustrated edition
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Tell Me Everything
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
Night
Scaffolding
Hagstone
There's a Tiger on the Train
The Great Storm Whale
The Dress in the Window
The Cat Who Couldn't Be Bothered
Snail in Space
Grandad's Pride
The Wonder Brothers
The Final Year
The Clockwork Conspiracy: Shortlisted for the 2024 BOOKS ARE MY BAG Readers Award
Safiyyah's War
Kicked Out: A Boy, Everywhere story
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World – THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Farmer's Wife: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
Dim Sum Palace
Miss Cat: The Case of the Curious Canary
Impossible Creatures: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Strong Like Me
Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm: Book 1
Superhero Animals
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World
Feather
Greenwild: The World Behind The Door
People Need People: The award winning picture book poem from legendary poet Benjamin Zephaniah
In Dark Water: A compulsive Scottish detective novel
The Girls in the Glen: An unputdownable Scottish mystery
The Diary of a Bookseller
Lost People
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
Galloway: 40 Coast & Country Walks
Devorgilla Days: finding hope and healing in Scotland's book town
Waypoints: My Scottish Journey
Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape
Dumfries and Galloway Folk Tales
Nip Nebs and the Last Berry
The Galloway Chilli
The Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure
The Clanlands Almanac: Seasonal Stories from Scotland
Slow Seasons: A Creative Guide to Reconnecting with Nature the Celtic Way
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
Wild Swimming: 400 Hidden Dips in the Rivers, Lakes and Waterfalls of Britain
Swimming Wild in the Lake District: The most beautiful wild swimming spots in the larger lakes
The Art of Wild Swimming: Scotland
Taking the Plunge: The Healing Power of Wild Swimming for Mind, Body and Soul
Swim Wild and Free: A Practical Guide to Swimming Outdoors 365 Days a Year
The Wild Places
The Wild Silence
The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
Seaside Walks in a Box: Best coastal walks around Britain on pocketable cards
Wild Swimming Walks Cornwall: 28 coast, lake and river days out
Italian Coastal: Recipes and stories from where the land meets the sea
Persiana Everyday: Sabrina Ghayour’s long-awaited follow-up to Persiana
Dear Francesca: An Italian Journey of Recipes Recounted with Love
Easy Wins: 12 Flavour Hits, 125 Delicious Recipes, 365 Days of Good Eating
Taste: My Life Through Food
SIFT: The Elements of Great Baking
Prue: My All-time Favourite Recipes
Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter (Cloth-Covered, Flexible Binding)
Ottolenghi FLAVOUR
Eat Better Forever: 7 Ways to Transform Your Diet
Falastin: A Cookbook
East: 120 Easy and Delicious Asian-inspired Vegetarian and Vegan recipes
The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone: Over 200 Delicious Recipes That Anyone Can Make
Modern Baking
Veg: Easy & Delicious Meals for Everyone as seen on Channel 4's Meat-Free Meals
Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Pompeii: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
Imperium: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
The Silver Pigs: (Marco Didius Falco: book I): the first novel in the bestselling historical detective series, exposing the crim
The Wolf Den: the stunning first novel reimagining the lives of the women of Pompeii
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
The Twelve Caesars
A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun
Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
The Wretched of the Earth
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division: The powerful, pocket-sized manifesto
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
The Battle of The Nile: A Ladybird Expert Book
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory
24 Hours at Waterloo: 18 June 1815
The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
Napoleon: The End of Glory
The Napoleonic Wars
The Waterloo Armies: Men, Organization and Tactics
Walking Waterloo: A Guide
Napoleon in 100 Objects
Waterloo: Wellington's Victory and Napoleon's Last Campaign
Waterloo 1815: The British Army's Day of Destiny
Napoleon Victorious!: An Alternate History of the Battle of Waterloo
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815
How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
An Apothecary of Art: To soothe your soul
Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives
Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century
How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal
British Museum: Origami, Poems and Pictures – Celebrating the Hokusai Exhibition at the British Museum
Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age
Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love
The Indian Textile Sourcebook: Patterns and Techniques
The Bloomsbury Look
The Art of Wallpaper: Morris & Co. in Context
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The V&A Sourcebook of Pattern and Ornament (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Constantinople Quilts: 8 Stunning Applique Projects Inspired by Turkish Iznik Tiles
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
Designer Showcase: Interior Design at its Best
Colour is Home: A Brave Guide to Designing Classic Interiors
The Life Eclectic: Brilliantly Unique Interior Designs from Around the World
Everything: A Maximalist Style Guide
Bloom Wild: a free-spirited guide to decorating with floral patterns
A Room of Her Own: Inside the Homes and Lives of Creative Women
Beata Heuman: Every Room Should Sing
Inspired by Nature: Creating a Personal and Natural Interior
Live Beautiful
The Lives of Others: Sublime Interiors of Extraordinary People
Still: The Slow Home
Upgrade: Home Extensions, Alterations and Refurbishments
Nomad at Home: Designing the Home More Traveled
Curate: Inspiration for an Individual Home
Scandi Rustic: Creating a Cozy & Happy Home
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Sweet Sorrow: The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of ONE DAY
Conversations with Friends: 'Brilliant, funny and startling.' GUARDIAN
It Ends With Us: Special hardback edition of the global runaway bestseller. Now a major motion picture starring Blake Lively and
Normal People: One million copies sold
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: the most moving coming-of-age classic
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry: The hilarious and heartfelt YA romcom
It's Behind You
Rose, Interrupted
The Girl of Ink & Stars
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Collectors Edition
Ace of Spades
The Shadow Glass
Girl (In Real Life)
Burn After Writing (Illustrated): TIK TOK MADE ME BUY IT!
The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
Rootbound: Rewilding a Life
The Hidden Horticulturists: The Untold Story of the Men who Shaped Britain’s Gardens
Planting for Butterflies: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Flutter
Seed to Dust: A mindful, seasonal tale of a year in the garden
A Lifetime of Seasons: The Best of Christopher Lloyd
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 – 1990
The Well-Chosen Garden
Natural Selection: a year in the garden
Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life
Tom Stuart-Smith: Drawn from the Land
National Trust School of Gardening
100 20th-Century Gardens and Landscapes
Ten Poems about Walking
The Great Gatsby: Chiltern Edition
Wuthering Heights: Chiltern Edition
Sense and Sensibility: Chiltern Edition
The Art of War: Chiltern Edition
Jane Eyre: Chiltern Edition
Pride and Prejudice: Chiltern Edition
The Handmaid's Tale
Bunny: TikTok made me buy it!
Never Saw Me Coming: ‘Impossible to put down’ Louise O’Neill, author of Idol
The Inseparables: Vintage Classics French Series
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1
If We Were Villains: The Sensational TikTok Book Club pick
The Divines: A razor-sharp, perfectly twisted debut
The Song of Achilles
The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5
The Sandman Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
A Court of Thorns and Roses: Enter the EPIC fantasy worlds of Sarah J Maas with the breath-taking first book in the GLOBALLY BES
It Ends With Us: Special hardback edition of the global runaway bestseller. Now a major motion picture starring Blake Lively and
Where the Crawdads Sing
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
Attack On Titan 1
Learning to Talk: Short Stories
Normal Rules Don't Apply
Cursed Bunny
Found in Translation: 100 of the Finest Short Stories Ever Translated
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
Serpentine: A short story from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust
The Collected Short Stories
The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction
Fen
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Madame Zero
Men Without Women
Refugee Tales: Volume IV
Exit West: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
Refugee Boy
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground
Death and the Penguin: A BBC Two Between the Covers Pick
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
Saving the Butterfly: A story about refugees
Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930
A Story Like the Wind
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: The heartbreaking tale that everyone's talking about
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
The Thursday Murder Club: (The Thursday Murder Club 1)
Transcendent Kingdom
Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
A Gentleman in Moscow
Death in Her Hands
The Other Bennet Sister: The Perfect Regency Novel for Fans of Bridgerton and Jane Austen
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Double Blind
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
Americanah
The Keeper of Lost Things: winner of the Richard & Judy Readers' Award and Sunday Times bestseller
Beautiful World, Where Are You: from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People
Americanah
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
The Education of an Idealist
Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930–1944
The Salt Path
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 – 1990
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2
Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over 500,000 copies sold
The Year of Magical Thinking
Walking With Ghosts: A Memoir
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times
Second Class Citizen
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
Devil on the Cross
AWS Classics The Joys of Motherhood
We Should All Be Feminists
Purple Hibiscus
Weep Not Child
A Grain of Wheat
The Famished Road
Songs of Enchantment
The Memory of Love: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize
My Sister, the Serial Killer: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Daisy Jones and The Six
Shadow and Bone: Shadow and Bone: Book 1
Where the Crawdads Sing
Howl's Moving Castle
Wonder: The award-winning, multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon
How I Live Now
Girl A
The Terror: the novel that inspired the chilling BBC series
The North Water: Now a major BBC TV series starring Colin Farrell, Jack O'Connell and Stephen Graham
You Don't Know Me: The gripping courtroom thriller as seen on Netflix
The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series
Close To Me: Now a major TV series
Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series
Sweetbitter: Now a major TV series