Alistair Moffat set up the Borders Book Festival in Melrose more than 20 years ago The man who saw his "dream become reality" by setting up a book festival in southern Scotland more than 20 years ago ...

Alistair Moffat is to step down as a director of Borders Book Festival at the close of this year’s festival in June, after more than 20 years at its helm. Moffat established Borders Book Festival in ...

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Why do you go there? I first saw this magical place 60 years ago, the first time I had gone up to the Highlands. Beyond the islands of Rum and Eigg stretches the eternity of the mighty Atlantic, its ...

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 ...

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The man who saw his "dream become reality" by setting up a book festival in southern Scotland more than 20 years ago is to step down as its director. Alistair Moffat established the Borders Book ...