John Buchan: 297 books

Richard Hannay, the hero of 'The 39 Steps', returns as a member of ‘The Runagates Club’.  The club is a 1930s London dining society for gentlemen and is made up of ex-soldiers who meet once a month to share tales of adventure from their many heroic adventures across the globe.  Across...

Jolly hockey-sticks! It’s Volume 6 of British Mystery Multipacks: BRITISH SPY MYSTERIES. Seven classic espionage thrillers from across the pond filled with murder, mayhem and suspense: The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan’s groundbreaking series featuring spy Richard Hannay appears...

Literary Thoughts edition presents The Courts of the Morning by John Buchan ------ "The Courts of the Morning" is a 1929 novel by Scottish novelist and historian John Buchan (1875–1940), telling the story of Sandy Arbuthnot who discovers that a charismatic industrial tycoon wants to rule...

Buchan was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, but the most famous of his books were the spy thrillers, and it is probably for these that he is now best remembered. The "last Buchan" (as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative...

Edited and introduced by Andrew Lownie. ‘The short story is the real form’ John Buchan This is the first ever complete collection of all Buchan’s shorter Scottish fiction. Set largely in his beloved Borders, these stories and novellas show the full range and depth of Buchan’s writing. Featuring...

"Sick Heart River" is John Buchan's most powerful novel and his last, completed days before his death. It was published posthumously in 1941. Buchan's rich descriptions of the rugged Canadian Northwest Territories are influenced by his real-life voyage down the Mackenzie River in 1937. At...

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic...

Introduced by Christopher Harvie. Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, politician, sportsman and occasional philosopher, was probably the most autobiographical of John Buchan’s heroes. This collection of four novels, written over a span of thirty years, shows Leithen/Buchan in all his moods – from the urban...

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Novels The Thirty-nine Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast Huntingtower The Power-House Sir Quixote of the Moors John Burnet of Barns Grey Weather...

Prester John was written as a boys' adventure story set mostly in South Africa. It was published in 1910 when Buchan was 35. The South African background was based on the two years from 1901 which Buchan spent as a private secretary to Lord Milner, High Commissioner to South Africa and later governor...

This ebook compiles John Buchan's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle", "Mr. Standfast", "John Macnab", "The Island of Sheep" and "The Watcher by the Threshold". This edition...

"The African Colony" was written by John Buchan in London (1903) when he was Editor of The Spectator magazine about his previous time spent as private secretary to Alfred Milner, who was then the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Governor of Cape Colony, and colonial administrator...

‘The observer, wherever on the globe his eyes were turned, would have found no area immune from the struggle.’ John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, spent the First World War serving in a variety of official positions, but he also helped to produce a monthly magazine chronicling the history...

Lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live. Fearing he will die unfulfilled, he devotes his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker. Galliard is in remotest Canada searching for the River of the Sick Heart. Braving an Arctic winter, Leithen...