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John Buchan

November 2021

  • Author Wilbur Smith photographed at the Gore Hotel, London. For Portrait of the Artist. *Please mention the Gore Hotel in picture caption if at all possible*. Photo by Linda Nylind. 3/1/2013.

    Wilbur Smith obituary

    Bestselling author of adventure novels with African settings such as When the Lion Feeds and The Sunbird

February 2021

  • A ferry sailing away from the port of Larne, Northern Ireland.

    Tunnel visions and the romance of the railways in Scotland

    Letters: Readers respond to an article by Ian Jack on proposals for a rail tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland and a long-lost railway line

September 2019

  • John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Scottish Novelist 1927<br>John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, 1927. Buchan (1875-1940) is best remembered as the author of the adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, published in 1915. He also had a career in government and diplomacy and served as Governor-General of Canada from 1935 until 1940. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: can you recommend adventure novels for adults?

    Tales of derring-do for the grown-ups

May 2019

  • ‘A life apparently unshadowed by scandal or dishonour’: John Buchan in 1935.

    Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan review – a man of no mystery

    A biography by the author’s granddaughter reveals truth duller than fiction

May 2017

  • Rupert Penry-James as Richard Hannay in the BBC’s 2008 adaptation of The Thirty-Nine Steps.

    Books blog
    Bond and Smiley should be retired: it's time for working-class spy fiction

    HB Lyle
    Since the genre’s inception, its heroes have usually been privileged types. Less well-connected heroes would make better novels and wouldn’t go amiss in real life

May 2016

  • Ronald Pickup as Bayliss in the 1978 screen version of The Thirty-Nine Steps

    Top 10s
    Top 10 chases in literature

  • castle drogo devon

    Book of the day
    The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House 1918-1939 by Adrian Tinniswood – review

April 2016

  • david seabrook portrait

    Rachel Cooke's shelf life
    Bad vibes in Broadstairs and the dark side of Deal

    David Seabrook’s work exploring sinister connections in Kent could be the start of something obsessive…

August 2015

  • 39 STEPS, film still, Alfred Hitchcock

    Journeys in literature
    The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan – giddy action and vivid cameos

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps directed by Alfred Hitchcock

    The Guardian Books podcast
    On the trail of John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps – books podcast

July 2014

  • 100 novels-39-steps

    The 100 best novels
    The 100 best novels: No 42 - The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)

    John Buchan's espionage thriller, with its sparse, contemporary prose, is hard to put down, writes Robert McCrum

May 2014

  • Benedict Cumberbatch as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking

    Scientists on screen - in pictures

    The private lives of the great inventors, discoverers and academics were often extraordinary. So it's not surprising that film-makers have been drawn to celebrate them and that actors have produced some terrific performances. Kit Buchan chooses the pick of the bunch over the years including Russell Crowe as John Nash and Walter Matthau as Einstein

May 2013

  • The iPad app of John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps.

    Ebooks: the new reading
    Interactive novels: pretty but pretty exhausting

    The iPad app of John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is breathtaking to look at but the storytelling is desperately slow, writes Anna Baddeley

August 2012

  • The 39 Steps at Pitlochry

    The 39 Steps – review

    This tongue-in-cheek adaptation of John Buchan's thriller is witty and high on energy, writes Mark Fisher

May 2012

  • The Three Hostages by John Buchan

    Book dedications
    Book dedications: Up and down

    What goes up must come down – even John Buchan can’t escape the laws of gravity

March 2011

  • Offer now expired: See the award-winning show The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre for £20

    John Buchan's 1915 novel The 39 Steps gets the comedy treatment in an award-winning production at the Criterion Theatre in London's Piccadilly. On Tuesdays throughout April and May Extra members can buy tickets for just £20

December 2010

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews

    Life on Air by David Attenborough | Hurrah for Hannay! by John Buchan | The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell | Life by Keith Richards

February 2010

  • Classics corner
    The Best of John Buchan: Three Rip-Roaring Richard Hannay Thrillers: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast

    Richard Hannay still cuts a dash in John Buchan's rip-roaring thrillers, writes Philip Womack

January 2009

  • Charlotte Higgins on culture
    The lure of the spy story

    Why am I so addicted to John Le Carré, Spooks and John Buchan?

October 2008

  • The Thirty Nine Steps - Robert Powell

    The Digested Read podcast
    The Digested Classic: The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan

    John Crace condenses some classic suspense

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