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 America....

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 narrator...

„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 power...

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...

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 little...

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 Wildebeest’....

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 borders,...

Richard Hannay, un enginyer de mines britànic que acaba de tornar de Rodèsia, està avorrit de la nova vida que ha començat a Londres. Tot canvia quan troben mort a casa seva un home que ha descobert un...

Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan, first published in 1922. The novel is set in Scotland and follows the adventures of three young men who become involved in a plot to rescue a Russian nobleman...

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 of...

The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1924.  John Buchan (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian,...

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 in...

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.

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 long...

Castle Gay is a novel by John Buchan. It is the second of his three Dickson McCunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s.

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...

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

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

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, which...

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, when...

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...

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...

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 them...

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...

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...

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 memories....

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 they intend to...

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 ago...

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 ago...

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 over...