John Buchan - Books and biography

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...

„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 century,...

A novel of action and excitement set in 17th century Virginia -- a challenging, untamed land.

"The African Colony" is at least not the work of a globe-trotter (a person far more likely to wreck the Empire some day than the proverbial cavalry subaltern). Its author has served for three years under...

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...

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,...

"Mr. Standfast" is the third part of a trilogy which begins with "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and "Greenmantle". In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself;...

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 there,...

'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...

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 Britain....

To say that Mr. John Buchan's novel, The Half-Hearted, is a "psychological study," would be to arouse in the breasts of many novel readers a dark, but unfounded suspicion; to describe it as a splendid...

No-Man's Land; The Far Islands; The Watcher by the Threshold; The Outgoing of the Tide; The Rime of True Thomas; Basilissa; Divus Johnston; The King of Ypres

Around my feet the clouds are drawn In the cold mystery of the dawn; No breezes cheer, no guests intrude My mossy, mist-clad solitude; When sudden down the steeps of sky Flames a long, lightening wind....

In Huntingtower there is a retired Glasgow grocer who, starting out for a walking tour with a knapsack and a poetry book, finds himself, within twenty-four hours, up to the neck in one of the wildest...

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 what...

"Prester John is a splendid story, not merely compact with thrilling scenes, but distinguished by a fine literary flavour, due partly to the author's style and partly to his ability to describe men who...

"The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels. The Richard Hannay novels are action/mystery/spy novels with a James bond feel. This book starts out with Richard Hannay married to Mary...

Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration...

This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western...

"This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfurd before the age of twenty. As a boy growing up on the coast...

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other...

Les Trente-neuf marches John BuchanTexte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.Cet ouvrage...

'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 words written,...

'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 Englishwoman Kore Arabin...

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 should...

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 cure...

In "The Courts of the Morning," John Buchan weaves a richly textured narrative that blends adventure, political intrigue, and profound philosophical musings. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century...

In "Grey Weather," John Buchan delves into the complexities of human emotion and existential reflection, weaving a rich narrative against the backdrop of the Scottish landscape. This novel captures the...

Set against the backdrop of the Canadian wilderness, John Buchan's "A Lodge in the Wilderness" masterfully intertwines adventure, introspection, and the raw beauty of nature through the lens of wilderness...

John Buchan, 1º Barão Tweedsmuir (1875 – 1940), foi um escritor e político escocês unionista que serviu como Governador-geral do Canadá e que se tornou famoso graças ao seu romance The Thirty-Nine Steps. Os...