Alistair Moffat

Author

Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Director of Programmes at Scottish Television and founder of the Borders Book Festival, he is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. From 2011 he was Rector of the University of St Andrews. He has written more than thirty books on Scottish history, and lives in the Scottish Borders.

Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Director of Programmes at Scottish Television and founder of the Borders Book Festival, he is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. From 2011 he was Rector of the University of St Andrews. He has written more than thirty books on Scottish history, and lives in the Scottish Borders.

Books

  • Glasgow: A New History
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Feb 2027
    £9.99

    Scotland’s largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country. This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From prehistory to the Romans, to Mungo and the...

  • Assassins and Secret Listeners
    Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £20.00

    Uncover the story of a nation’s hidden heroes. Throughout Britain, all day, every day and in the dead of night, the secret listeners went about their solitary work. Hands on headphones, these men and women, drawn from all walks of civilian...

  • To See Ourselves
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026
    £10.99

    Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

  • Bannockburn
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £8.99

    Relive the battle for a nation. As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a foregone conclusion. But...

  • Edinburgh: A New History
    Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2026
    £9.99

    From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotland’s capital since 1437, the city has witnessed many of the key events which have shaped the nation. But Edinburgh has always been much more...

  • Glasgow: A New History
    Hardback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025
    £14.99

    Scotland’s largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country. This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From prehistory to the Romans, to Mungo and the...

  • To See Ourselves
    Hardback | Pub: 12 Jun 2025
    £18.99

    Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

  • The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2025
    £14.99

    Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it has never been told before. From the...

  • Edinburgh: A New History
    Hardback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024
    £14.99

    From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotland’s capital since 1437, the city has witnessed many of the key events which have shaped the nation. But Edinburgh has always been much more...

  • The Borders
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024
    £14.99

    This is the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation’s history for thousands of years. The hunter-gatherers, who first discovered the bounty of the ancient Wildwood, the Celtic warlords, the Romans, the...

  • War Paths
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024
    £10.99

    Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans and their definitive conflicts. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess...

  • Italy’s Paradise
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Feb 2024
    £10.99

    ‘A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region’ – Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of...

  • The Alistair Moffat History Collection
    E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023
    £19.99

    Uncover the story of Scotland with Alistair Moffat’s history collection. From the Ice Age to the modern day, this bundle leaves no stone unturned. Journey through the long-lost kingdoms of Roman times and the Dark Ages, uncover the bloodshed...

  • Islands of the Evening
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022
    £10.99

    ‘Magnificent’ – New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. They sought spiritual solitude in remote places, but their mission was also to...

  • The Great Tapestry of Scotland
    Paperback | Pub: 22 Jul 2021
    £9.99

    The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of...

  • The Great Tapestry of Scotland
    Hardback | Pub: 22 Jul 2021
    £30.00

    The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry’s Wimbledon victory of 2013. More than 1000 stitchers spent...

  • Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
    Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2017
    £16.99

    Discover the ultimate chronicle of a nation.  In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of Scotland, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A...

  • The Wall
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2017
    £12.99

    This is the story behind Rome’s greatest frontier – Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian’s Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall...

  • The Reivers
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2017
    £10.99

    From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands suffered one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder in modern Europe. As a consequence of constant conflict, Borderers suffered horribly at...

  • Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms
    E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2012
    £8.99

    The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, The Knights of the Round Table and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surrounding King Arthur. But who was he really, where did he come from, and how much of what we read about...

  • The Sea Kingdoms
    E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011
    £6.99

    ‘The most powerful representation yet of the race which has repeatedly changed history as we know it’ – The Scotsman Alistair Moffat’s journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and...

  • The Faded Map
    Paperback | Pub: 17 May 2011
    £10.99

    In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting political shape of the land long before its modern...