The Borders

Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the Nation’s history and has moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary visitors for hundreds of years. No narrative history of the Borders has been published since the 19th century, and this book tells a long awaited story of a unique place… a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities.

It is the story of England and Scotland, told up close and personal; the story of Celtic warlords, Romans, Border Reivers, Walter Scott… a tale told in blood, fun and granite-hard memory.