Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, he now runs the burgeoning Borders Book Festival as well as a production company based near Selkirk. He has written several other books that are published by Birlinn.
'A fascinating picture'
*Today Programme BBC Radio 4*
'The fusion of science and the physical history – like an abandoned
croft – allows people to trace their Scots ancestry with
precision'
*Sunday Herald*
'[Moffat] is wonderfully able to communicate the epic elements of
the story, which matters because that's precisely what man's
survival has been'
*Scotsman*
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