John Buchan - Books and biography

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 Montrose's...

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 heroic quest...

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 secretary...

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 himself...

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 from...

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 more...

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 desperate...

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 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 Kennedy,...

A Shocking Adventure Novel “I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.” ― John Buchan, The 39 Steps John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is a fast-paced adventure...

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 when...

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

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...

This comprehensive eBook 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 Thirty-Nine...

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 Borders...

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 story,...

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...

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 McCunn books. The novel is set in the fictional...

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 common...

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...

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...

John Buchan's SIR EDWARD LEITHEN Complete Collection is a must-read for fans of mystery and thriller genres. This premium edition includes 6 titles that follow the gripping adventures of Sir Edward Leithen...

John Buchan's 'RICHARD HANNAY Complete Collection' is a diverse compilation of 7 mystery and espionage novels, featuring the iconic literary character Richard Hannay. These unabridged stories are woven...

John Buchan's 'The Thirty-Nine Steps & Other Adventure Stories' is a thrilling collection of seven action-packed titles in one volume. Set in a politically tumultuous Europe on the cusp of World War...

John Buchan's 'The Great War Collection' is a deeply moving anthology of his renowned works that capture the turmoil and bravery of World War I. Buchan's eloquent prose and vivid imagery provide a stark...

In John Buchan's comprehensive work, 'THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME - First & Second Phase (Complete Edition – Volumes 1&2)', the reader is taken through a detailed account of one of the most significant...

In 'Dickson McCunn - The Complete Adventure Series in One Volume' by John Buchan, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a collection of tales that embody the classic adventure genre. Each story...

John Buchan's 'MYSTERY & ESPIONAGE Ultimate Collection' is a comprehensive collection of his most renowned works in the mystery and espionage genre. This anthology includes gripping tales of suspense,...

John Buchan's collection of 28 novels and over 40 short stories, beautifully illustrated, provides readers with a captivating glimpse into the world of British literature in the early 20th century. Buchan's...