About the Author

Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He is an award winning Writer, Historian and former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television. He is the founder of Borders Book Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry Of Scotland.

Reviews

'The most powerful representation yet of the race which has repeatedly changed history as we know it'
*The Scotsman*

'Brimming with interesting facts ... instructive and wide-ranging'
*Independent on Sunday*

'The best picture of the Celtic race yet written'
*South Wales Echo*

'Lovingly traces the remnants of a once-powerful people through language, ancient place names, farms, fortresses, harbours and, most of all, through their connection to the sea'
*Irish Times*