Is there a way of selecting all files within multiple folders?

Let's say I have a folder called 'text books' and within that folder I have 100 more folders named by author. Inside the folders are .txt files of their work. Is there any way I can select all the .txt docs and paste them in one big folder? In other words, is there a way of removing all the sub-folders and putting all the .txt files together in one place?
regards
Rob

Thanks Niel. Worked a treat! Took me a short while to figure out how to get it to run in the directory I wanted it to (as the file was also on NAS) as I have never used AppleSript before.
So, for posterity, and if anyone else is interested in trying to do this, here is my final script:
set pa to "/Volumes/Public/etc - whatever your path is"
set aspa to POSIX file pa
set tpa to "/Volumes/Public/ directory you are moving them to"
set as2pa to POSIX file tpa
tell application "Finder"
move every file of entire contents of folder aspa to folder as2pa
end tell

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