Returning to England after years in South Africa, Richard Hannay enters the Secret Service accidentally after he finds a murdered neighbor in his apartment and finds himself on the run from the police and the killers alike, in an edition accompanied by Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1935 film adaptation, featuring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll, on DVD.

Product Description: [Read by Frederick Davidson] This, Buchan's best-known thriller, inspired Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name. With wit and flair, this old-fashioned roller coaster ride offers soaring suspense with a comic touch. Perhaps more than any other book The Thirty-Nine Steps has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man...read more

Product Description: John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Adventurers All contains: Huntingtower -- first of three novels about 55-year old grocer Dickson McCunn, who has sold his business and taken early retirement only to be swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures; John McNab -- the collective name for three successful but bored friends in their mid-forties who decide to turn to poaching but frolics and romance ensue; and The Three Hostages -- the further adventures of Richard Hannay, the hero of Buchan's best known novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps...read more

On the last day of May 1902 the signature at Pretoria of the conditions of peace brought to an end a war which had lasted for nearly three years, and had among other things destroyed a government, dissolved a society, and laid waste a country. In those last months of fighting some progress had been made with the reconstruction—at least with that not unimportant branch of it which is concerned with the machinery of government. A working administration had been put together, new ordinances in the form of proclamations had been issued, departments had been created and the chief appointments made, the gold industry was beginning to set its house in order, refugees were returning, and already political theories were being mooted and future parties foreshadowed. But it is from the conclusion of peace that the work of resettlement may fairly be taken to commence. Before that date the restrictions of war limited all civil activity; not till the shackles were removed and the civil power left in sole possession does a fair field appear either for approval or criticism.

Product Description: On the last day of May 1902 the signature at Pretoria of the conditions of peace brought to an end a war which had lasted for nearly three years, and had among other things destroyed a government, dissolved a society, and laid waste a country...read more

Product Description: In commenting upon the transformation of the Roman Republic into a great and glorious empire, John Buchan wrote: 'This book is an attempt to understand a little part of the mind of a great man ... Augustus, while he had able colleagues – and one of his gifts was his power to choose collaborators – he was always the master designer and the chief executant...read more

Product Description: Tells the story of Peter Pentecost, a clerk at the great abbey of Osney just outside Oxford. Peter's life is turned upside down when he discovers he is the son of the last Duke of Buckingham, sixth in descent from Edward III, and should by rights be King instead of Henry VIII.

Product Description: 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 first introduced in the classic novel The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Product Description: Retired Glasgow provisions merchant and adventurer, Dickson McCunn, first seen in ‘Huntingtower’, features for a second time in ‘Castle Gay’. His group of boys known as the ‘Gorbals Die-hards’ have gone on to Cambridge University...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1929, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by John Buchan at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in historical scholarship and historiography.

Product Description: A cold breeze swept over the man as he slept. He shifted, pulling the covers around him tighter, oblivious to the pair of glowing green eyes that glared down at him. His breathing fell back to a comfortable snore as the knife plunged towards his heart...read more

Product Description: This anthology of extracts from Buchan’s writings is well worth reading for its historical range and wide selection of subjects close to the author’s heart. Alongside portraits of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Virgil, Cromwell and Sir Walter Scott, to name but five, are lyrical descriptions of landscapes...read more

Product Description: Five novels featuring the adventures Richard Hannay beginning with his first appearance in the classic thriller ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’, and following his exploits through the Great War and on until the 1930s. Five complete novels written by Hannay’s creator John Buchan.

Product Description: The greatest classic of angling literature and a unique celebration of the English countryside, Izaak Walton's IThe Compleat AnglerR was originally published in 1653 and first appeared with Charles Cotton's continuation in 1676. No book, apart from the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, has been more often reprinted...read more

Product Description: This collection of the Complete Richard Hannay Series has all of the following works: 1st Book: The Thirty-Nine Steps 2nd Book: Greenmantle 3rd Book: Mr. Standfast 4th Book: The Three Hostages 5th Book: The Island of Sheep

Product Description: South America is the setting for this adventure from the author of ‘The Thirty-nine Steps’. When Archie and Janet Roylance decide to travel to the Gran Seco to see its copper mines they find themselves caught up in dreadful danger; rebels have seized the city...read more

Product Description: 1926. John Buchan was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet, and novelist, whose most famous thriller was The Thirty-Nine Steps. In his lifetime Buchan published nearly 30 novels and seven collections of short stories...read more

Product Description: EPISODES OF THE GREAT WAR by JOHN BUCHAN. CONTENTS: BOOK I - THE EARLY WAR OF MANOEUVRE I. PROLOGUE: AT SERAJEVO June 28, 1914, II. THE BREAKING OF THE BARRIERS The Immediate Results of the Serajevo Murders Germanys Council of War on 5th July Austrias Ultimatum toSerbia Germanys Proposal to Britain The Work of Sir Edward Grey The Ultimatums to France and Belgium The Invasion of Belgium The British Cabinet Britain declares War...read more

Product Description: A wonderful tale of romance and adventure set among the islands off the north of Scotland.