Greg Hemphill and Nicola Sturgeon among Wigtown headliners
Ex-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, BBC News presenter Reeta Chakrabarti, former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie, and BBC Antiques Road Trip star James Braxton will also feature.
The festival, which will run from September 26th to October 5th, will feature more than 200 events and activities up and down the Galloway coast.
Bibliophiles will be treated to author talks, wild-swimming, night walks, and garden saunas, as well as writing workshops and live music.
Other guests include Scots language poet Len Pennie, broadcaster Louise Minchin, Professor John McKay, and novelist Lucy Ribchester, as well as The Herald's Vicky Allan, who will lead a mass wild-swim.
The former First Minister will appear 'in conversation' with former Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler, and is expected to speak about her highly anticipated memoir Frankly, which will debut at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this month.
Nimmo said: 'We've always loved the sound of Wigtown Book Festival and now we finally get to go. We're really looking forward to it.
'It's such a great line-up of authors, and there's so much more going on even beyond the book events. Plus the Galloway coast is so beautiful, we'll doubtless be off for a swim while we're there.'
Adrian Turpin, the festival's outgoing Creative Director, added: 'Wigtown gives audiences the chance to enjoy famous names, new writers, great storytelling, big ideas and colourful characters in intimate surroundings at the heart of Scotland's National Book Town.
'The festival prides itself on being friendly, laid-back, full of surprises and intensely curious. Dive and and you never know what you will find."
Despite a population of less than 1,000, Wigtown hosts 15 bookshops and book-related businesses, and has been known as 'Scotland's National Book Town' since 1998.
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