Author: John Buchan

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In this fast-paced spy thriller, a self-described "ordinary fellow" stumbles upon a plot involving not only espionage and murder but also the future of Britain itself. Richard Hannay …

In his classic espionage thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan introduced Richard Hannay, an appealing antihero with the intelligence and daring to thwart a conspiracy involving British secrets …

In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John Macnab; three high-flying men – a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker – are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to …

After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent to South Africa to seek his fortune. A strange encounter on the voyage suggests that a tribal uprising is afoot, and David soon finds …

Sir Edward Leithen – perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan's characters – is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. After this prognosis, Leithen undertakes a profoundly …

David Sempill is being torn apart. Young and idealistic, his loyalty to his King conflicts with his Covenanting sympathies, which are, in turn, tested by the brutality he witnesses towards …

Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in The Guardian Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who …

Recently retired, grocer Dickson Mc Cunn decides to embark on a little walking tour in the Scottish Borders. Along the way he falls in with John Heritage, a young Englishman with a poet's heart. …

'For three minutes you will turn your eyes inward – into the darkness of the mind which I have taught you to make. Then – I will give the sign – you will look at the paper. There you will see …

An anonymous young man’s life is about to be changed, as could the course of history. It is 1536 and powerful men reveal to Peter Pentecost that it is he, and not the tyrannical Henry VIII, who …

'Plakos is a strange place, for the tides of civilisation and progress seem to have left it high and dry. It is a relic of old days, full of wild beliefs and pagan habits.' Young …

When Anthony Lammas, Kirk minister and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, sets off for business in London, little does he realise that he will soon be entangled in a web of conspiracy. But …

November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top-secret mission to investigate rumours of a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the …

A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honour-bound to resolve a violent vendetta in which the lives of a young father and his daughter are in danger from unscrupulous and …

The turbulent 'Killing Times' of the Covenanters is the backdrop to a desperate struggle between lifelong rivals. John Burnet of Barns, the last of an ancient line of Border Reivers, …

Young and dissolute, Francis Birkenshaw carouses around Edinburgh, caring nothing for the Jacobite Rebellion. An encounter with the beautiful Margaret Murray, wife of Bonnie Prince Charlie's …

The Jacobite army marches into England and Alistair Maclean, close confident of Charles Edward Stewart embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the cause in the west. He soon begins to …

Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels …

The Power House is the first adventure of the classic Buchan hero, the prosperous Scots lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen, whose measured daily routine of ‘flat, chambers, flat, club’ is enlivened by …

After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no …

Major General Sir Richard Hannay is a fictional secret agent created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and made further popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps. Buchan’s resourceful, …

The Thirty Nine Steps, John Buchan’s groundbreaking espionage thriller featuring spy Richard Hannay, has been called the first great espionage novel. It has been embraced by each new generation and …

Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he meets an American agent seeking help in stopping a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a …

In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel,   John Macnab. Three powerful men suffering from boredom concoct a plan to cure it. They notify three Scottish landowners that …

Considered by many to be one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, “The Thirty-Nine Steps” is Scottish author John Buchan’s most successful work. Published in 1915 and set during the early …

The John Buchan Collection: the essential collection of books by John Buchan in one collection:Greenmantle The Half-Hearted Huntingtower The Moon Endureth–Tales and Fancies Mr. Standfast The Path of …

This early work by John Buchan was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series with a brand new introductory biography. ‘Mr. Standfast’ is the …

Set in the later years of World War I, Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in …

Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once …

In a famous letter Keats has expounded life under the similitude of Chambers. There is first the Thoughtless Chamber, when man lives only for sensation; then comes the Chamber of Maiden Thought, when …

Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and …

Richard Hannay’s boredom with London society is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer from South Africa is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. When a …

In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Although …

Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange …

South America is the setting for this adventure from the author of ‘The Thirty-nine Steps’. When Archie and Janet Roylance decide to travel to the Gran Seco to see its copper mines they find …

I have never believed, as some people do, in I omens and forewarnings, for the dramatic things in my life have generally come upon me as suddenly as a tropical thunderstorm. But I have observed that …

What is the true root of royal blood? A band of gold belonging to a young Viking prince is passed from generation to generation. Follow this convoluted, yet heroic, path to the making of one of …

When his friend Charles Pitt-Heron vanishes mysteriously, Sir Edward Leithen is at first only mildly concerned. But a series of strange events that follow Pitt-Heron’s disappearance convinces Leithen …

A collection of stories from John Buchan, author of ‘The Thirty-nine Steps’. The pagan themes and classic adventures are set in Scottish countryside. John Buchan continues to stake his claim to being …

What is the true root of royal blood? A band of gold belonging to a young Viking prince is passed from generation to generation. Follow this convoluted, yet heroic, path to the making of one of …

I have told this story to many audiences with diverse results, and once again I take my reputation in my hands and brave the perils. To the common circle of my friends it was a romance for a winter’s …

Considered by many to be one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ is John Buchan’s most successful work. Set during the First World War, it is the story of Richard …

Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once …

Set in the later years of World War I, Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in …

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. When Richard Hannay encounters a mysterious stranger fearing for his …

One of John Buchan’s most famous characters, Sandy Arbuthnot is the hero of this story of adventure in a far flung country. Sandy must battle against a charismatic industrial tycoon who wants to take …

Tells the story of Peter Pentecost, a lowly clerk at the great abbey of Osney just outside Oxford. Peter’s life is turned upside down when he discovers he is the son of the last Duke of Buckingham, …

Europe is close to war and spies are everywhere. Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia, in order to …

Hannay is summoned to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant, a senior intelligence man, whom Hannay met and assisted in The 39 Steps. Bullivant gives Hannay an outline of the political situation …

Dick Hannay is called out of uniform by his old comrade, spymaster Sir Walter Bullivant, and sent to Fosse Manor in the Cotswolds to receive further instructions. He must pose as a South African, an …

Prester John tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John. Crawfurd is similar in …

Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on …

Hannay is called by an old oath to protect the son of a man he once knew, who is also heir to the secret of a great treasure. He obtains help from Sandy Arbuthnot, now Lord Clanroyden, and …

Sandy Arbuthnot’s friend John Blenkiron discovers that a charismatic industrial tycoon is plotting to rule the world from his base in the small South American country of Olifa. Sandy decides to lead …

The Scottish local community mobilises to uncover and thwart the conspiracy against a Russian woman, and to defend the neutrality of Scotland against the Russian Bolshevik …

Dougal and Jaikie set off travelling the world, but first they must visit Mr Craw and his Castle Gay fully of mysterious characters. Das E-Book Castle Gay wird angeboten von Fractal Press und wurde …

Set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia the novel follows Scottish visitors in the overthrow of a corrupt republic and the restoration of the monarchy. It is a sequel to Castle …

The Power-House, an international anarchist organization is led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley. Its plan to destroy Western civilisation is thwarted by Leithen with the assistance of a …

Three successful but bored friends in their mid-forties decide to turn to poaching. They are Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, Tory Member of Parliament (MP), and ex-Attorney General; John Palliser-Yeates, …

An eminent lawyer Edward Leithen becomes close friends with Vermon Milburne through unusual circumstances of chance. Milburne divulges that since childhood he has had a recurring dream in which an …

At a country house, five guests gather and are chosen by a brilliant scientist to take part in a shocking experiment which will let them glimpse one year into the future. However, when the experiment …

Set during the early part of Henry VIII’s reign, the story revolves around a young clerk Peter Pentecost, who proves to be a descendent of Henry of Buckingham and, thus, has a claim to the …

A conspiracy to betray England’s defences to Napoleonic agents is discovered by Anthony Lammas, a young professor who sets out to save his former students appearing to be in grave …

Social expectations, passion and romance are overpowering cowardly Lewis Haystoun in his attraction to Alice Wishart, a guest at a Scottish country house party hosted by Lady …

A lifelong rivalry between two young noblemen – John Burnet, heir to the ancient house of Barns, and his cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, a dashing, ruthless soldier, resulting in treachery, betrayal …

An imaginary conference is arranged by a multi-millionaire, Francis Carey, at a lodge, Musuru, located on the East Kenyan Plateau some 9000 feet above sea level, to discuss Empire. The conference is …

An encounter with the beautiful wife of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s secretary, Mrs Margaret Murray leads to a dangerous involvement with her husband for a young Edinburgh-born Francis …

Prester John is an adventure novel by John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to the medieval legend …

I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year …

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular …

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Der junge Londoner Anwalt und Parlamentarier Edward Leithen gerät durch die mysteriöse Flucht seines Freundes Pitt-Heron mitten hinein in einen düsteren Kriminalfall. Hatte Pitt-Heron sich auf …

This comprehensive e Book presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 5899 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The …

The 39 Steps is a melodrama adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. The original concept and production of a four-actor version of the story was by Simon …

The Moon Endureth, subtitled ‘Tales and Fancies’, is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan. In its review of the first edition The Athenaeum noted ‘a marked …

Three months of carefree life in London has brought Richard Hannay a terrible boredom. Numerous discussions about the weather, restaurants, horse racing and endless tea parties remained the same …

Lawyer and politician Sir Edward Leithen has been diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis – a year to live. A former colleague, American John S. Blenkiron, requests help to find his niece’s husband, who …

In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Although …

Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange …

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form …

A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan.I have never yet seen an adequate definition of Romance, and I am not going to attempt one. But I take it that it means in the widest sense that …

I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year …

The girl came into the room with a darting movement like a swallow, looked round her with the same birdlike quickness, and then ran across the polished floor to where a young man sat on a sofa with …

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form …

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the …

Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other …

The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels by Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1924 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.Hannay had previously appeared in The Thirty Nine …

The Island of Sheep (1936) is a novel by John Buchan. It is the last of his novels to revolve around Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot.The action occurs twelve years later on from the last novel, …

The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England.It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood’s Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The …

In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, ‘John Mac Nab’; three high-flying men – a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker – are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to …

The Dancing Floor is a 1926 novel by John Buchan featuring Edward Leithen. It is the third of five novels written about the character of Leithen.Edward Leithen is an eminent lawyer who is introduced …

These twelve stories are told by the old soldiers of the Runagates Club as they reminisce.Richard Hanny, hero of ‘The Thirty-nine Steps’, reappears recounting a trek into the bush in ‘The Green …

The Gap in the Curtain is a 1932 borderline science fiction novel by John Buchan. Part of the action is autobiographical, featuring the agonies of a contemporary up and coming …

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 …

Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he meets an American agent seeking help in stopping a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a l …

London, May 1914. Europe is close to the First World War. Richard Hannay, a Scotsman raised in Rhodesia is living in London, and finds American Franklin Scudder at his door. Scudder is a photographer …

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada’s Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and …

John Buchan was a Scottish author and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. He wrote a series of books that follow the adventures of Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who was …

A classic John Buchan story of espionage during World War I. It contains several familiar Buchan elements: a motley cast of characters, Great War intrigue, the use of disguises and linguistic …

„Castle Gay” is the second of Buchan’s three Dickson Mc Cunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s. The plot revolves around the self-discovery of a …

A classic espionage and adventure novel set during The Great War, featuring the reckless Richard Hannay. Sequel to „The Thirty-Nine Steps” and precursor to Mr. Standfast. Tasked with unraveling a …

A true adventure story involving the unlikely hero Dickson Mc Cunn, retired successful businessman and former greengrocer who sets out on a walking holiday in the Scottish Borders. There he meets a …

„John Burnet of Barns” was Buchan’s first fully realised, full-length work of fiction. The author’s third novel is story of adventure, treachery and revenge, set in the Scottish Borders in the 17th …

Written in 1925, the novel opens with three gentleman friends – lawyer Sir Edward Leithen, banker John Palliser-Yeates, and Cabinet member Charles Lord Lamancha – discovering that they all suffer a …

Regarded as one of the finest historical novels ever written, Jacobites, spies and thrilling intrigue are brought together by the master of suspense. As Bonnie Prince Charlie marches his army into …

World War I espionage thriller meets modern-day morality tale in „Mr. Standfast”, the third of five Richard Hannay novels written by acclaimed storyteller John Buchan. In this nail-biting adventure …

South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey …

In John Buchan’s thrill-a-minute novel „Salute to Adventurers”, hero Andrew Garvald makes his way from the dreary moors of his native land to the deceptively bucolic landscape of early colonial …

„Sick Heart River” is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchan’s last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchan’s own efforts to come to terms with his looming …

In the mid-sixteenth century, Jean de Rohaine, a middle-aged French nobleman, journeys to Scotland in search of adventure and a new beginning. In Scotland he meets up with his old friend, Quentin …

„Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” is a time-tested adage that suits Peter Pentecost, a young monk and legitimate claimant to England’s Throne. But he is not alone as others are vying for …

Although this book was listed in a collection of Richard Hannay stories, Hannay makes only a brief appearance at the beginning. Begins in the pleasant atmosphere of a country house in the Scottish …

Vernon Milbourne, orphaned since childhood and haunted by a recurring dream, is friends with the protective lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen. An Aegean cruise takes them to the mysterious island of …

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, „The Free Fishers” is classic Buchan and his last historical novel. It’s a fast-paced tale of treason, espionage and romance. Anthony Lammas, a professor at the St. …

When Sir Edward Leithen leaves London to spend Whitsuntide as a guest at Flambard, he has no idea of the extraordinary sequence of events about to unfold. Among the collection of fellow guests, some …

Set in the closing years of the nineteenth century, „The Half-Hearted” tells the story of Lewis Haystoun, a dilettante and coward. Part I of the novel is a story of manners and romance in upper class …

Third and final part of the Dickson Mc Cunn trilogy, where he and the usual sidekicks fall into a plot involving an exiled prince’s attempt to regain the throne despite the efforts of bad guys to …

Sir Richard Hannay, retired mining engineer, lives a comfortable suburban life outside London, but feels old age and stodginess coming on and longs to have his mettle tested again. He gets his chance …

We wonder that so great a man as Abraham Lincoln should spring from humble people – but who knows what his more distant ancestry might have been? In a series of dramatic chapters, Mr. Buchan tells …

Edward Leithen is a young British lawyer who learns that one of his Oxford contemporaries, Charles Pitt-Heron, has just disappeared. Leithen learns from Pitt-Heron’s wife that he has been forced to …

The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant, …

John Buchan’s own favourite among his novels, in which he dealt with the hypocrisy which can lie close to the surface of apparently god-fearing respectability. The story is set in the Scottish …

Mr. Standfast by John Buchan. Set in the later years of World War I, Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a …

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Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The first of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books, it is set near Carrick in south-west Scotland around 1920. The hero is a 55-year-old grocer …

During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment—in England and abroad, during …

I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping …

Castle Gay is a novel by John Buchan. It is the second of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the …

The House of the Four Winds is a novel of adventure by John Buchan, first published in 1935. It is a Ruritanian romance, and the last of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books.The novel is set in the …

The Courts of the Morning is a 1929 adventure novel by John Buchan, featuring his character Sandy Arbuthnot. The prologue is narrated by Richard Hannay, so the novel is sometimes included in Buchan’s …

Peter Pentecost, from his eyrie among the hazels, looked down on the King’s highway as it dipped from Stowood through the narrow pass to the Wood Eaton meadows. It was a King’s highway beyond …

That evening, I remember, as I came up through the Mill Meadow, I was feeling peculiarly happy and contented. It was still mid-March, one of those spring days when noon is like May, and only the cold …

This story begins, so far as I am concerned, in the August of 192-, when I had for the second time a lease of the forest of Machray. Mary and Peter John and the household had gone north at the end of …

From the heart of a great hill land Glenavelin stretches west and south to the wider Gled valley, where its stream joins with the greater water in its seaward course. Its head is far inland in a …

When Gideon Birkenshaw—of Birkenshaw Tower in the Forest and the lands of Markit beneath the brow of remote Cheviot—was summoned by death to his account, he left all to his eldest son and …

The narrative, now for the first time presented to the world, was written by the Sieur de Rohaine to while away the time during the long period and painful captivity, borne with heroic resolution, …

The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s. It concerns the involvement of some Scottish visitors in the overthrow of a corrupt republic and the …

Castle Gay is a novel by John Buchan. It is the second of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s. A tale of kidnapping, …

Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The first of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books, it is set near Carrick in south-west Scotland around 1920. The hero is a 55-year-old grocer …

The Island of Sheep (1936) is a novel by John Buchan. It is the last of his novels to revolve around Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot. The novel was published in the United States under the title …

The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels by Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1924 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Hannay had previously appeared in The Thirty Nine …

The Blanket of the Dark is a 1931 historical novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. The novel is set in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII, and explores the possible consequences had the …

Sick Heart River (1941) is a novel by Scottish author John Buchan set in Canada. It was published posthumously. The book was published in the United States under the title Mountain Meadow. Sir Edward …

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was ill in bed with a duodenal ulcer, an illness which remained with …

Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scots author John Buchan, set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three …

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the …

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the …

Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other …

Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to the medieval …

The Island of Sheep  (1936) is a novel by John Buchan. It is the last of his novels to revolve around Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot.] The novel was published in the …

Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The first of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books, it is set near Carrick in south-west Scotland around 1920. The hero is a 55-year-old grocer …

What is the true root of royal blood? A band of gold belonging to a young Viking prince is passed from generation to generation. Follow this convoluted, yet heroic, path to the making of one of …

Prester John  is a 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu upri …

British writer John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting …

Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, …

Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and …

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. …

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical …

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic tale by John …

British writer John Buchan’s Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into …

The Power-House written by John Buchan who was a Scottish novelist, historian, biographer and editor. This book was published in 1916. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is …

During the later years of the First World War Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large …

Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is …

follows 39 Steps and Greenmantle The earlier adventures of Richard Hannay, to which occasional reference is made in this narrative, are recounted in The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle.  …

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form …

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the …

The Moon Endureth, subtitled ‘Tales and Fancies’, is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan. In an introduction to the collection Buchan quotes from an article …

A historical fiction set against the background of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46, this is the story of Alistair Mac Lean's adventures in England as he proceeds on his mission for Prince …

Selected Supernatural Stories brings together some of the best short stories from the master himself, John Buchan! Featuring: The Keeper Of Cademuir A Journey Of Little Profit The Outgoing Of …

Dick Hannay se voit confier une mission secrète de la plus haute importance : trouver ce qui se trame en Turquie, et qui pourrait changer la face de la Grande guerre. Aidé par trois personnes : d’un …

Premier roman mettant en scène Richard Hannay, sud-africain, ingénieur des mines et prospecteur. Hannay se retrouve mêlé à une aventure incroyable qui conduira à l’attentat de Sarajevo en juin 1914. …

John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, had a remarkable life and here is his wonderfully written and fascinating memoir. A highly accomplished man and now known by many chiefly as an author, he was also …

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. …

Best known for penning the spy thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, author and politician John Buchan produced dozens of fiction and non-fiction works over the course of his career. The Path of the King …

11 Best Works of John Buchan Greenmantle Huntingtower John Burnet of Barns Mr. Standfast Prester John Salute to Adventurers The African Colony The Half-Hearted The Moon Endureth The …

Fans of H. Rider Haggard's action-adventure novels will be swept away by John Buchan's Prester John, a thrill-a-minute tale set in colonial Africa. Young David Crawfurd travels to Africa to …

In this fast-paced spy thriller, a self-described "ordinary fellow" stumbles upon a plot involving not only espionage and murder but also the future of Britain itself. Richard Hannay …

Many of the aristocrats profiled in John Buchan's novel The Half-Hearted are beset with crippling doubts about their own lifestyles and characters. Protagonist Lewis Haystoun is disgusted with …

In John Buchan's thrill-a-minute novel Salute to Adventurers, hero Andrew Garvald makes his way from the dreary moors of his native land to the deceptively bucolic landscape of early colonial …

The Moon Endureth (Blackwood) is a collection of tales and fancies, in prose and verse, which Mr John Buchan has contributed to Blackwood's Magazine. It reminds me of an old, well-thumbed saffron …

Author and diplomat John Buchan lived a remarkable life, achieving prominence and success in a number of fields—often simultaneously. Soon after embarking on an administrative career in Africa, …

British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into …

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed …

The Power-House of the title is an international anarchist organization led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley. Its plan is to destroy Western civilisation. Can this evil scheme be thwarted by …

CHAPTER I THE MAN ON THE KIRKCAPLE SHORE I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in …

One of the great spy thrillers of the twentieth century and a benchmark for much of what came after, Buchan’s breakneck dash up the British Isles takes in mistaken identity, fifth columnists and …

CHAPTER ONE A Mission is Proposed I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram. It was at Furling, the big country house in Hampshire where I had …

CHAPTER ONE The Wicket-Gate I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a …

CHAPTER ONE The Man Who Died I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up …

This collection of fourteen short stories, The Path of the King offers a tapestry of historical episodes, from the Vikings through centuries of Norman and French, Flemish, English, Scottish, and …

Tra i classici del giallo, I trentanove scalini, da cui Hitchcock ha tratto il celebre film, è certo uno dei più grandi. L’intreccio è un vero modello di suspence: Richard Hannay, da poco …

Nell’infanzia di David Crawfurd c’è un episodio – un rito satanico, cui il ragazzo si trova ad assistere – destinato a lasciare un segno profondo. Una volta adulto, David parte per il Sudafrica, dove …

Misteriose lettere, che portano la firma di ‘John Macnab’, giungono a tre proprietari terrieri degli Altipiani. Le lettere contengono una minaccia: in un dato giorno un cervo o un salmone sarà …

The Moon Endureth, subtitled ‘Tales and Fancies’, is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan. In its review of the first edition The Athenaeum noted ‘a marked …

Here, from the father of spy fiction, is the grand sequence of his great master spy’s adventures in three famous books: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle and Mr. …

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC (/ˈbʌxən/; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, …

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 …

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC (/ˈbʌxən/; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, …

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC (/ˈbʌxən/; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, …

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.’I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my …

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an …

Dickson Mc Cunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better …

Dickson Mc Cunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better …

In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan’s heroes: …

In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan’s heroes: …

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. ‘I turned on the light, but …

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. ‘I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my …

First published in 1915, John Buchan’s definitive spy novel was the fi rst in a long line of espionage thrillers to delve into the underbelly of the British establishment. Over a hundred years later, …

The Man Who Died I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone …

Set just before the onset of the First World War, The Thirty-Nine Steps introduces one of literature’s most memorable detectives, Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who has just returned to London …

Deployed to the Middle East during the First World War, British secret agent Richard Hannay must stop the Germans and Turks from creating an uprising in the Muslim World-an uprising that would prove …

Recalled from duty on the Western Front by renowned spymaster Sir Walter Bullivant, British secret agent Richard Hannay goes undercover as a pacifist, working to outwit a dangerous German spy and his …

When an international anarchist organization called The Power-House threatens to destroy Western civilization, lawyer and MP Edward Leithen must race against time and his friend Charles Pitt-Lumley, …

It is 1915. Richard Hannay is convalescing from wounds received fighting in France, when he is approached by Sir Walter Bullivant of British Intelligence. Bullivant’s son has been working undercover …

‘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 …

This book contains the classic supernatural novel ‘The Gap In the Curtain’, by the well-known John Buchan. The story is set in a country house, where guests are enabled by an eccentric scientist to …

A classic novel featuring Dickson Mc Cunn, introduced in John Buchan’s previous book ‘Huntingtower’, and his adopted son Jaikie, who meets a media mogul named Craw.Jaikie and Craw embark on …

Originally published in 1922, ‘Huntingtower’ by John Buchan is set in Scotland and follows the adventures of Dickson Mc Cunn, a newly retired grocer planning a modest walking holiday in the hills of …

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high …

The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction (1903) is a history of South Africa told from John Buchan’s personal viewpoint: ‘I have tried in the main to state as clearly as I could the outstand …

According to Wikipedia, ‘Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Hannay is called in …

The Half Hearted (1900) tells the story of the shallow Lewis Haystoun, a guest at a Scottish country house party, who falls in love, then goes off to India and gives his life for a nobler cause. …

According to Wikipedia, Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The first of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books, it is set near Carrick in south west Scotland around 1920. The hero is a …

The Moon Endureth by John Buchan is a collection of tales and fancies, in prose and verse, which were originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine. It includes From the Pentlands looking North and …

According to Wikipedia, ‘Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other …

The Path of the King is a travel through historic events that traces a band of gold as it is passed from a young Viking to Abraham Lincoln. The following is a quotation from its original publication …

According to Wikipedia, ‘Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising …

Salute to Adventurers is an historical novel, which tells the story of Andrew Garvald , a young Scottish merchant, who migrates to the Jamestown Colony. This story includes survival, pirates, …

The Thirty-Nine Steps, set during World War I, tells the story of Richard Hannay, who finds himself accused of murder and must battles both police and spies to prove his innocence. According to …

Classic British Works: 10 Books by John Buchan includes The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction, Greenmantle, The Half-Hearted, Huntingtower, The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies, Mr …

A first-hand account of World War I. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and politician, who served as governor general of Canada. His best-known fiction is The Thirty-Nine …

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and politician, who served as governor general of Canada. His best-known fiction is The Thirty-Nine Steps, featuring the action hero …

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and politician, who served as governor general of Canada. His best-known fiction is The Thirty-Nine Steps, featuring the action hero …

This classic book is John Buchan’s 1928 historical study, "Montrose – A History". James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) was a Scottish poet and soldier. He first fought for the …

This classic book is John Buchan’s 1898 novel, "John Bernet of Barns – A Romance". John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian who served as Governor General of Canada. …

A wonderful tale of romance and adventure set among the islands off the north of …

The first novel by John Buchan is a fascinating insight into the themes that would continue to appear throughout all of his later work. Set in 17th century Scotland, the story revolves around the …

The Thirty-Nine Steps was originally published in 1915 as the first of 5 novels featuring Hannay, an all action hero with a particular knack for getting himself out of tight spot. John Buchan may …

A classic Richard Hannay adventure novel by John Buchan. Richard Hannay is now in his fifties but once more must throw himself into an adventure to uphold a an oath he made in his youth to protect …

Richard Hannay is without a doubt the most famous of John Buchan’s creations. Mr. Standfast is a classic story of espionage, Richard Hannay is recalled from duty on the Western Front in the latter …

A wonderful collection of stories dealing with escapes and adventurous journeys, including the escape of Charles II to France, Winston Churchill’s escape from South Africa and many …

If you ever read one book by John Buchan this should be it, an often overlooked masterpiece of historical fiction. The Path of the King, offers a tapestry of historical episodes, from the blood …

A haunting novel of romance and duty, where the social expectations of the main characters shape the paths they …

Edward Leithen is one of John Buchan’s most famous heroes. Here Leithen finds himself in Greece with an old friend and must save the life a stubborn but beautiful young …

"Sick Heart River" is a powerful and compelling novel originally published in 1941. It is John Buchan’s last novel which was completed days before his death in 1940. It follows a dying …

First published in 1916 this is the second of five novels written by John Buchan featuring his protagonist Richard Hannay, set during the First World War, Hannay must thwart a German plan to use …

First published in 1927 and set in the 17th century, this is a wonderful story of witchcraft in the forests of …

The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt …

John Buchan had a special love for the landscapes and people of Scotland. Here is collected all of his short stories and novellas about the country he loved more then any …

"The Runagates Club" is a 1928 compilation of twelve stories recounted as memories from John Buchan’s most well-known characters. Set in the fictional Runagates Club in central London in …

A grand, sweeping historical drama. Set in Mediaeval England during a tense time as a the country waits for the new king to be crowned. A enthralling, richly detailed story of intrigue and …

A wonderful tale of treason and romance. Anthony Lammas, a professor at the St. Andrews University, finds himself involved in a web of intrigue that threatens the whole …

John Buchan’s first full-length work of fiction. John Burnet and Captain Gilbert Burne are two young nobleman, one the heir to the house of Barns the last in a long line of Border reivers the other a …

A classic historical romance by John Buchan. Set in Scotland amongst the chaos of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Our hero is Francis Birkenshaw and man for who the Jacobite cause means nothing until …

A classic John Buchan story of daring-do and espionage during World War I. A Prince of the Captivity is a 1933 novel by Scottish author John Buchan. It centres around Adam Melfort, a man who weds a …

One of John Buchan’s most famous characters, Sandy Arbuthnot is the hero of this story of adventure in a far flung country. Sandy must battle against a charismatic industrial tycoon who wants to take …

A fascinating biography of Lord Minto once governor of Canada and Viceroy of India. Written by John Buchan from original letters and …

A guide to South African politics and reconstruction after the terror and destruction of the Boer …

A collection of fantastic supernatural tales by one of the finest writers of the 19th century. Tales include: The keeper of Cademuir, A Journey of Little Profit, The Outgoing of the Tide, …

A thrilling and superbly written historical romance. The story of Andrew Garveld, a young man born into a poor but once noble family, sets about changing his fortune by travelling to Edinburgh but …

John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, had a remarkable life and here is his wonderfully written and fascinating memoir. Buchan can very readily be described as a man of empire, serving in the army during …

Here are collected two of John Buchan’s finest two historical romances, sweeping landscapes and beautifully written characters and plots are the hallmark of Buchan’s …

Richard Hannay is the most famous creation of author and diplomat John Buchan. Hannay can be seen to be the first true action hero of British literature, a decorated soldier and spy, constantly …

John Buchan is one of the finest writers of historical romances, novels packed with beautifully described landscapes and rich powerful …

Richard Hannay is the most famous creation of author and diplomat John Buchan. Hannay can be seen to be the first true action hero of British literature, a decorated soldier and spy, constantly …

John Buchan may hold the title of the man who invented spy adventure, bringing Richard Hannay fully formed to readers in the early 19th century. Hannay is just one of his masterful creations, Edward …

This book contains a fascinating treatise on the English King, Edward VII. It is not intended as a biography, but is instead an attempt to provide a picture – and some slight interpretation – of his …

Greenmantle’ is John Buchan’s second novel featuring the character of Richard Hannay and was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Greenmantle is one of two Hannay novels set during …

This classic book is John Buchan’s 1910 novel, "Prester John". It tells the tale of a young Scottish man called David Crawfurd who travels to South Africa. Contents include: "The Man …

The battle of Jutland was the largest navel confrontation during the First World War involving the British and German fleets. John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a man in position to write the …

This early work by John Buchan was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. ‘No-Man’s-Land’ is …

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan. In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that …

Dickson Mc Cunn is an affluent, 55-year-old grocer, who takes an early retirement and ventures out to explore the world. At once he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish …

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The novel of international intrigue and adventure that set the standard for the modern spy thriller One May evening in 1914, an ordinary Londoner named Richard Hannay receives word of an anarchist …

The second installment in the electrifying adventures of Richard Hannay, Britain’s greatest secret agent Major Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, is recovering from wounds …

In the last of his World War I adventures, Richard Hannay undertakes his most dangerous assignment yet When England calls, Richard Hannay answers. Not yet forty and already a brigadier general, he …

Retired grocer Dickson Mc Cunn embarks on the journey of a lifetime in John Buchan’s classic adventure tale Dickson Mc Cunn has led a respectable, if unremarkable, life. He’s a grocer in …

Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents. The Thirty-Nine Steps is a famous adventure nov …

Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents. Greenmantle, written by Scottish author John Bu …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history’s greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collecti …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history’s greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collecti …

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history’s greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collecti …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently …

The Battle of the Somme First Phase is the first part of Buchan’s classic non-fiction work about the terrible battle in World War I. Das E-Book The Battle of the Somme First Phase wird angeboten …

The Battle of the Somme Second Phase is the second and final part of Buchan’s classic non-fiction work about the terrible battle in World War I. …

The Thirty-Nine Steps introduces us to Richard Hannay, John Buchan’s wily hero of five novels. A major influence on spy fiction, the novel has been adapted for the cinema on numerous occasions. …

The Thirty-Nine Steps introduces us to Richard Hannay, John Buchan’s wily hero of five novels. A major influence on spy fiction, the novel has been adapted for the cinema on numerous occasions. …

British writer John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting …

British writer John Buchan’s Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into …

World War I espionage thriller meets modern-day morality tale in Mr. Standfast, the third of five Richard Hannay novels written by acclaimed storyteller John Buchan. Follow Hannay’s exploits as a …

In John Buchan’s thrill-a-minute novel Salute to Adventurers, hero Andrew Garvald makes his way from the dreary moors of his native land to the deceptively bucolic landscape of early colonial …

Author and diplomat John Buchan lived a remarkable life, achieving prominence and success in a number of fields — often simultaneously. Soon after embarking on an administrative career in Africa, …

In this epic tale of a family torn asunder by a long-lasting feud, renowned action-adventure author John Buchan spins an engrossing account of two cousins locked in conflict — and the horrible toll …

To celebrate his retirement, mild-mannered grocer Dickson Mc Cunn has planned a walking tour of the Scottish countryside. However, the journey that starts out as a bucolic gambol soon spirals into a …

Fans of H. Rider Haggard’s action-adventure novels will be swept away by John Buchan’s Prester John, a thrill-a-minute tale set in colonial Africa. Young David Crawfurd travels to Africa to make a …

Many of the aristocrats profiled in John Buchan’s novel The Half-Hearted are beset with crippling doubts about their own lifestyles and characters. Protagonist Lewis Haystoun is disgusted with his …

Best known for penning the spy thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, author and politician John Buchan produced dozens of fiction and non-fiction works over the course of his career. The Path of the King …

British writer John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting …

British writer John Buchan’s Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into …

World War I espionage thriller meets modern-day morality tale in Mr. Standfast, the third of five Richard Hannay novels written by acclaimed storyteller John Buchan. Follow Hannay’s exploits as a …

Best known for penning the spy thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, author and politician John Buchan produced dozens of fiction and non-fiction works over the course of his career. The Path of the King …

Many of the aristocrats profiled in John Buchan’s novel The Half-Hearted are beset with crippling doubts about their own lifestyles and characters. Protagonist Lewis Haystoun is disgusted with his …

Fans of H. Rider Haggard’s action-adventure novels will be swept away by John Buchan’s Prester John, a thrill-a-minute tale set in colonial Africa. Young David Crawfurd travels to Africa to make a …

To celebrate his retirement, mild-mannered grocer Dickson Mc Cunn has planned a walking tour of the Scottish countryside. However, the journey that starts out as a bucolic gambol soon spirals into a …

In this epic tale of a family torn asunder by a long-lasting feud, renowned action-adventure author John Buchan spins an engrossing account of two cousins locked in conflict — and the horrible toll …

Author and diplomat John Buchan lived a remarkable life, achieving prominence and success in a number of fields — often simultaneously. Soon after embarking on an administrative career in Africa, …

In John Buchan’s thrill-a-minute novel Salute to Adventurers, hero Andrew Garvald makes his way from the dreary moors of his native land to the deceptively bucolic landscape of early colonial …

John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel featuring the recurrent protagonist Richard Hannay. The story is set right before the outbreak of the Second World War in London. It starts …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. But his career was jam packed with other achievements. He was 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. But his career was jam packed with other achievements. He was 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. But his career was jam packed with other achievements. He was 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. But his career was jam packed with other achievements. He was 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. But his career was jam packed with other achievements. He was 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG …

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. But his career was jam packed with other achievements. He was 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG …

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One of the most exciting ”chase thrillers” ever published, and a huge influence not only on spy fiction, but on Hollywood as well, The 39 Steps is a book which has captured the imagination of …

Introduced by Christopher Harvie. Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan’s Witch Wood is a gripping …

John Buchan’s ‘shocker’ adventure novels have entertained readers for over a century. This comprehensive e Book presents the collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative intr …

John Buchan’s ‘shocker’ adventure novels have entertained readers for over a century and now, for the first time in publishing history, readers can explore the author’s complete fictional works in a …

John Buchans The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Hannay and became a foundational work in the spy-thriller genre. Taking place only months before the …

In John Buchans second book focusing on the exploits of the ever resourceful Richard Hannay, we find the English secret agent deep behind enemy lines as World War One rages. This time Hannay is …

Richard Hannay, one of Britains top secret agents, has been called on once-more to disrupt a German plot to knock Britain out of the War. Set near the end of the First World War, Mr. Standfast …

The fourth book in John Buchans thriller series focusing on Richard Hannay, The Three Hostages finds the one-time secret agent married and living a tranquil, rural life until a series of kidnappings …

In the final instalment of the Richard Hannay series, the popular secret-agent goes on his most dangerous mission yet. Now retired and in his fifties, Hannay is bound by an oath to protect the son of …

John Buchan, born 26 August 1875 – died 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. …

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian …

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG GCVO CH (1875 – 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, biographer and editor. Outside the field of literature he was, at various times, a barrister, a …

"Greenmantle" is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr …

Poetry and ten short stories by the British author known for adventure …

Huntingtower is a 1922 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It is the first of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books. The action takes place in Scotland, in the district of Carrick in Galloway. Having …

Excerpt: "When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should …

After the War, Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given …

The action occurs twelve years later on from the last novel, when Hannay, now in his fifties, is called by an old oath to protect the son of a man he once knew, who is also heir to the secret of a …

"Sir Quixote of the Moors" is an 1895 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It is Buchan’s first novel, written when he was nineteen and an undergraduate at Glasgow University. The …

The Three Hostages was written in the year 1924 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. Th …

Midwinter was written in the year 1923 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book i …

The Dancing Floor was written in the year 1926 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. Thi …

The Power-House was written in the year 1916 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This …

John Macnab was written in the year 1925 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book …

The Gap in the Curtain was written in the year 1932 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. …

The Runagates Club was written in the year 1928 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. Th …

Set amidst the religious struggles of the 17th century, this is the story of a young minister’s return to the town of his birth. There he finds a coven of Satan worshippers and falls deeply in love w …

Castle Gay was written in the year 1930 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book …

The Blanket of the Dark was written in the year 1931 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. …

The Free Fishers was written in the year 1934 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This …

The Keeper of Cademuir was written in the year 1894 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. …

A Journey of Little Profit was written in the year 1898 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the wor …

The Outgoing of the Tide was written in the year 1902 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world …

No-man’s-land was written in the year 1899 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This bo …

The Watcher by the Threshold was written in the year 1900 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the w …

The Grove of Ashtaroth was written in the year 1910 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. …

Space was written in the year 1911 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is pu …

Basilissa was written in the year 1914 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book i …

Fullcircle was written in the year 1920 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book …

The Magic Walking Stick was written in the year 1927 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. …

The Strange Adventure of Mr. Andrew Hawthorn was written in the year 1932 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other langua …

The House of Four Winds was written in the year 1935 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. …

Sick Heart River was written in the year 1941 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This …

The Island of Sheep was written in the year 1932 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. T …

The Far Islands was written in the year 1899 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This …

Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, …

A classic espionage and adventure novel set during The Great War, featuring the reckless Richard Hannay. Tasked with unraveling a mysterious message, Hannay travels through Germany and the Middle Eas …

The third part of a trilogy which begins with The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle. Das E-Book Mr Standfast wird angeboten von Booklassic und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …

Voici le livre dont a été tiré le célebre film d’Alfred Hitchcock : Richard Hannay, de retour d’Afrique du sud, s’ennuie dans son pays, l’Angleterre, et pense a repartir lorsqu’un locataire de son im …

Dans l’Angleterre en guerre, un officier, Dick Hannay, en convalescence apres une blessure, se voit confier une mission secrete de la plus haute importance : trouver ce qui se trame en Turquie, et qu …

The Half-Hearted was written in the year 1900 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This …

Huntingtower was written in the year 1921 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This boo …

The Path of the King was written in the year 1921 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. …

Prester John was written in the year 1899 by John Buchan. This book is one of the most popular novels of John Buchan, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This boo …

A novel of action and excitement set in 17th century Virginia — a challenging, untamed land. Das E-Book Salute to Adventurers wird angeboten von Booklassic und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategori …

In ‘The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn’ and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself …

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter …

In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan’s heroes: …

Contains: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages and The Island of …

Discover the original and best adventure story ever told. ‘The father of the modern espionage’ Sunday Times May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life …

John Buchan takes us back to Edwardian Britain on the eve of the First World War in the modern thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. An inexplicable murder drives the innocent Richard Hannay, on the …

Before James Bond, there was Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps. This thrilling 1916 sequel was praised by none other than Graham Greene. During the first World War, Hannay braves a laby …

Staid Scots grocer Dickson Mc Cunn, 55, has a plan: Retire early and take it easy. But soon he is swept up in a daring plot to rescue a beautiful princess imprisoned by scheming Bolsheviks in the r …

Buchan uncorks a thumping good yarn in this 1915 historical thriller. In 1680 Scotsman Andrew Garvald hoists sail for colonial Virginia. Soon he stumbles across a plot to provoke an American Indian …

Buchan covered World War I for The Times of London, as well as working for Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau. Collected here are his observations and analysis. This third volume begins by focusing on …

Published in 1910, this novel relates the African adventures of David Crawfurd, a young Scot who finds himself enmeshed in a Zulu uprising that bears mysterious links to the medieval legend of Pres …

Buchan covered World War I for The Times of London, as well as working for Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau. Collected here are his observations and analysis. The autumn of 1917 saw Germany in troub …

Trench warfare comes to vivid life in this 1916 blow-by-blow account of one of history’s bloodiest battles, written for the British War Propaganda Bureau. Although leaving out the great number of c …

A shipwrecked Viking prince; a band of gold, passed from generation to generation; the hidden history that links Joan of Arc, Daniel Boone, and Abraham Lincoln – this 1921 tapestry of fourteen inte …

“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass.” So threatens the leader of an anarchist conspiracy. The v …

The author of The Thirty-Nine Steps knew more than one way to chill a reader. His early forays into fantasy and the supernatural drew on Scotland’s rich legend and myth and carried into the rest of …

Buchan covered World War I for The Times of London, as well as working for Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau. This first volume of his observations begins on the eve of the Great War, and discusses b …

Buchan covered World War I for The Times of London, as well as working for Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau. Collected here are his observations and analysis. Picking up with the opening of the Dard …

John Buchan founded the modern day spy thriller, inspiring Ian Fleming and his James Bond character. In this World War I adventure, now Brigadier-General Richard Hannay, the hero of Buchan’s The Th …

This novel, set during the Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland in 1745, tells the story of Francis Birkenshaw, a young Edinburgh man intent on leading a life of debauchery until he chances upon the beau …

John Buchan’s novel ‘Prester John’ tells the tale of David Crawfurd, a young scotsman who travels to South Africa, where he experiences a Zulu uprising which is somehow linked to the medieval legend …

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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 …

I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a …

The House of the Four Winds is a novel of adventure by John Buchan, first published in 1935. It is a Ruritanian romance, and the last of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books. The novel is set in the …

Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The first of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books, it is set near Carrick in south-west Scotland around 1920. The hero is a 55-year-old grocer …

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 …

The Courts of the Morning is a 1929 adventure novel by John Buchan, featuring his character Sandy Arbuthnot. The prologue is narrated by Richard Hannay, so the novel is sometimes included in …

‘The House of the Four Winds’ is a novel of adventure by John Buchan, first published in 1935. It is a Ruritanian romance, and the last of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books. The novel is set in …

‘Castle Gay’, first published in 1930, is the second in the three Dickson Mc Cunn books which began with ‘Huntingtower’. Six years after the end of ‘Huntingtower’, the Gorbals Die-Hards–the gang …

‘Huntingtower’ is modern fairy-tale and a gripping adventure story by John Buchan, first published in 1922. It is the third of his three Dickson Mc Cunn books. If you only ever read one John …

The Gap in the Curtain is a 1932 borderline science fiction novel by John Buchan. Part of the action is autobiographical, featuring the agonies of a contemporary up and coming politician. …

‘Mr. Standfast’, first published in 1919, is a classic espionage novel by John Buchan. Although ‘Mr. Standfast’ is a sequel to ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ (and the third novel from the 5-book series of …

“Greenmantle” is a spy novel written by John Buchan and published in 1916. Set during World War One, “Greenmantle” is the second of the 5-book series of the Richard Hannay novels which immediately …

‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ was written by John Buchan and published in the year 1915. It is only the first of the 5-book series of the Richard Hannay novels.  This exciting action-adventure story …

John Buchan is best known as being the creator of Richard Hannay in ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’.  ‘The Three Hostages’, first published in 1924, is his fourth of the 5-book series of the Richard …

First published in 1936, ‘The Island of Sheep’ (or ‘The Man from the Norlands’ as it is known in the United States) is the fifth and final of the series of Richard Hannay ‘spy’ novels by John Buchan. …

‘Midwinter’ is a wonderfully written historical novel. Alastair Maclean. A scottsman who has been in exile in France goes to Englad to join the Scottish Army as it advances on London. En route …

Contents Lhasa — The gorges of the Brahmaputra — The North Pole — The Mountains of the Moon — The South Pole — Mount Mc Kinley — The Holy Cities of Islam — The exploration of New Guinea — Mo …

Midwinter is a wonderfully written historical novel. Alastair Maclean. A scottsman who has been in exile in France goes to Englad to join the Scottish Army as it advances on London. En route Maclean …