John Macnab (Buchan John)(Paperback)

John Macnab (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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 it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a

Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan John)(Paperback / softback)

Complete Richard Hannay (Buchan John)(Paperback / softback)

Thirty Nine Steps & The Power House (Buchan John)(Paperback / softback)

John Burnet of Barns (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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, returns home from abroad to find himself denounced as an agent of the Covenanters. Outlawed and deprived of his

Prester John (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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 involved - at great risk to his life - with the charismatic leader, John Laputa.Prester John

The Runagates Club (Buchan John)(Paperback)

The Runagates Club (1928) was John Buchan's last collection of short stories, and is a classic of British interwar short

Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1 - From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan(Paperback / softback)

The Power House: Authorised Edition (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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 the sudden disappearence of Charles Pitt-Heron, one of his Oxford contemporaries.Leithen steps up to

Huntingtower (Buchan John)(Paperback)

This modern fairy-tale is also the gripping adventure story about Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer who finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess held prisoner in the rambling mansion, Huntingtower. Here, Buchan introduces some of his

Midwinter (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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 suspect someone close to the Prince is passing information to the Government, but just as he closes in on

The Return of John Macnab (Greig Andrew)(Paperback)

'Highly Engaging' - Sunday Herald'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' - ScotsmanThe wagerTo poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates. The challengersThree men in a mid-life crisis who should know better. The wild

Witch Wood (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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 atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro.As a moderate Presbyterian minister, young David Sempill disputes with the

The 39 Steps (Collins Uk)(Paperback)

Revisit John Buchan s classic adventure story of danger and intrigue, as hero Richard Hannay desperately tries to escape being caught for a murder he didn t commit. The question is, can he stop the mysterious forces, which threaten the safety of the world while he s on the run? Pearl/Band 18 books

Mr. Standfast: Authorised Edition (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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 London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands and Islands in his search, which eventually ends in

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan John)(Paperback)

Famous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in

Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan John)(Paperback / softback)

Richard Hannay gets caught up quite suddenly on a dull London afternoon in a situation of extreme danger. Before he knows what is happening he is the obvious suspect for a murder committed in his own flat, and has to go on the run to his native

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan John)(Paperback)

The first of five novels featuring action hero Richard Hannay, and the basis for the classicHitchcock filmMay 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising

The Three Hostages: Authorised Edition (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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 than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of verse as clues, he is soon on the trail of Dominick

Sick Heart River: Authorised Edition (Buchan John)(Paperback)

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 from London to the Canadian Northwest, tracking down a missing man who is literally 'sick at

Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan John)(Paperback / softback)

Richard Hannay is thoroughly bored with London. Then a murder is commited in his flat. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his

Greenmantle - Authorised Edition (Buchan John)(Paperback / softback)

Richard Hannay is tasked to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and takes off on a hair-raising journey through German-occupied Europe to meet up with his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot in Constantinople, where they must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the

Thirty-Nine Steps - Authorised Edition (Buchan John)(Paperback / softback)

Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in Hannay's London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect and is forced to go on the run. He heads

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan John)(Paperback)

In The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), the best-known of his thrillers (made into a popular movie by Alfred Hitchcock), John Buchan introduces his most enduring hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow,' is caught up in the dramatic and dangerous race against a plot to