Prester John

Prester John
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2011-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755117131

After his father's death, our young hero sets off to make his fortune in South Africa. He gets tangled up in an African tribal uprising and a strange encounter and rumours he hears make him suspect that his destination may not be as predictable as he has supposed. Set at the turn of the last century, this is a riveting adventure story.

7 Best Short Stories by John Buchan

7 Best Short Stories by John Buchan
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577773353

Although little known today, John Buchan's fiction was important in defining the present mystery fiction. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author for your enjoyment: - The Last Crusade - Politics and the Mayfly - The Keeper of Cademuir - The Wife of Flanders - The Watcher by the Threshold - Comedy in the Full Moon - The Herd of Standlan

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps
Author: Ursula Buchan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1408870827

John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there was vastly more to 'JB'. He wrote more than a hundred books – fiction and non-fiction – and a thousand articles for newspapers and magazines. He was a scholar, antiquarian, barrister, colonial administrator, journal editor, literary critic, publisher, war correspondent, director of wartime propaganda, member of parliament and imperial proconsul – given a state funeral when he died, a deeply admired and loved Governor-General of Canada. His teenage years in Glasgow's Gorbals, where his father was the Free Church minister, contributed to his ease with shepherds and ambassadors, fur-trappers and prime ministers. His improbable marriage to a member of the aristocratic Grosvenor family means that this account of his life contains, at its heart, an enduring love story. Ursula Buchan, his granddaughter, has drawn on recently discovered family documents to write this comprehensive and illuminating biography. With perception, style, wit and a penetratingly clear eye, she brings vividly to life this remarkable man and his times.

The Three Hostages

The Three Hostages
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473373646

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 him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.

The Dancing Floor

The Dancing Floor
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473373603

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 women.

The Island of Sheep

The Island of Sheep
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Island of Sheep" by John Buchan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Sick Heart River

Sick Heart River
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755117174

Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live and decides to devote his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker, who is searching for the 'River of the Sick Heart'. Braving an Arctic winter, Leithen finds the banker and then his own health returns, yet only one of the men will return to civilization ....

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1
Author: Philip Hensher
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 873
Release: 2015-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141979283

TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some magnificent stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals. The Penguin Book of the British Short Story has a permanent authority, and will be reached for year in and year out. This volume takes the story from its origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding to the 'golden age' of the fin de siècle and Edwardian period. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Hensher, the award-winning novelist, critic and journalist.

The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories

The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2009-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141889500

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 steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories. In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan's innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work.