Alistair Moffat

Alistair Moffat

Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He is an award-winning writer, historian and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and former Rector of the University of St Andrews. He is the founder of Borders Book Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry of Scotland, and the author of The Secret History of Here: A Year in the Valley, The Hidden Ways: Scotland’s Forgotten Roads and To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne.

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Between Britain by Alistair Moffat cover

Between Britain

Alistair Moffat

The Secret History of Here by Alistair Moffat cover

The Secret History of Here

Alistair Moffat

To the Island of Tides by Alistair Moffat cover

To the Island of Tides

Alistair Moffat

The Hidden Ways by Alistair Moffat cover

The Hidden Ways

Alistair Moffat

 

Canongate to publish Alistair Moffat’s acccount of a walk along the border between England and Scotland

“Names tell stories, especially place-names, and sometimes they even move, taking their history with them.”

To the Island of Tides

Alistair Moffat

The Hidden Ways cover

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“All around me I felt the ghosts of an immense past, I heard their whispers and I smiled when they walked by my side through the fields and woods. I relished the companionship of the dead”

The Hidden Ways

Alistair Moffat