'What is important is the chatty and charming way Moffat makes our own cultural past accessible to us' -- Independent on Sunday 'Will surely become a classic of its kind ... a realistically chill modern attitude towards the raw social and cultural limitations of the period' -- The Times 20040904 'A brave, beautiful and rawly emotional memoir' -- Sunday Herald 20040904 'I left Homing charmed and moved ... There can be no greater praise for a writer than he opens eyes and changes minds, and Homing does that with style and talent' -- Glasgow Herald 20040904 'Moffat's childhood recollections are vivid and detailed' -- Allan Massie, The Scotsman 20040904 'Quaint but touching ... the book provides an equal dose of pathos and humour. Moffat describes a bygone era' -- Good Book Guide 20040901

Alistar Moffat was born in 1950. After school he took degrees at St Andrew's, Edinburgh and London universities. In 1976 he began a five-year period in charge of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, afterwards moving to Scottish Television, latterly as Director of Programmes and Chief Executive of Network Production. In 1999 he resigned these posts and settled in the Borders. His previous books include 'The Sea Kingdoms: The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland' and 'The Borders', which for many weeks was on the Scottish bestseller lists, both of which have been made into television series.