Author Alistair Moffat has travelled the miles – and through the years – to compile his latest book The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History. Here he offers five landscapes where ...

Filtering the last 75 years of Scottish history through the author’s own experiences, this book gets the balance just right between capturing telling details and presenting the bigger picture ...

An historian who founded the Borders Book Festival has said being recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours feels like receiving a “monumental bunch of flowers”. Alistair Moffat, 74, is celebrating ...

Alistair Moffat. Canongate, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-1-83885-113-2 Historian Moffat (The Hidden Ways) offers a charming, vivid collection of journal entries that capture the day-to-day life and history ...

Alistair Moffat, 74, is celebrating becoming a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of services to literature and culture in the same week as this year’s festival.

Alistair Moffat (Image: Ryan Rutherford) What do you leave behind? Tears, mostly. Returning to the beach often over the last six decades, I’ve measured out my life.

In his book The Scottish: A Genetic Journey, author Alistair Moffat argues that soon after the Scots began farming cereals thousands of years ago, they learned how to turn that harvest into ...

CineSecrets Northern Echo 150th Anniversary Tyneside: A History of Newcastle and Gateshead from Earliest Times by Alistair Moffat and George Rosie (Mainstream Publishing, £9.99) ...

Alistair Moffat, 74, is celebrating becoming a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of services to literature and culture in the same week as this year’s festival.