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Alasdair Hutton

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Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: Scottish Borders
Languages: English
Author type: Storyteller, Writer
Alasdair Hutton's headshot

Alasdair Hutton has been a journalist and broadcaster, Member of the European Parliament, and Councillor on Scottish Borders Council where he was Convener for nine years. He served in the Parachute Regiment TA and is a Member of the Royal Company of Archers. He has been writer and storyteller of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo for 30 years and has written and presented many other large public events, mainly military, plus numerous concerts.

He has written and narrated videos, DVDs and CDs. He regularly reads from his own and other writers' work and is sought as a storyteller for adult and children's groups. His first book for children, The Tattoo Fox, won the Heart of Hawick Children's Book Award 2015. He has since had published four other books for children and one for adults with another children's book due for publication in the autumn of 2024.

(Photo credit: Shona McMillan)

Websites featuring the author

Local authorities will visit

Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Midlothian; North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Chairing events; Reading; Talk

Audience will work with

Young people in the community (e.g. Youth clubs, Guides, Scouts)

Topics of work

Adventure; Animals; Biography & memoir; Event production; Family; Picture books; Politics

Age groups published for

Children; Teens; Adults

Age groups will work with

3-5; 6-8; 9-11; 12-14; 15-18; 18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500; 500+