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Currently on the BBC iPlayer: The 39 Steps: The Read with John Hannah
Murder, conspiracy and espionage are the themes of John Buchan’s gripping novel that sees Richard Hannay, a bored adventurer, become embroiled in a plot to assassinate a political figure.
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #thriller #The39Steps #JohnBuchan
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Buchlieferung! Dann kann mein Grundstudium Polit-Thriller ja weitergehen.
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“In WITCH WOOD, the Scottish Church looks for the devil everywhere but amongst its own”
Kate Armond leads us into the shadowy world of kirk & coven in Buchan’s favourite novel, WITCH WOOD
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/witch-wood-the-impossible-task/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #HistoricalFiction #supernatural #witchcraft
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“By the time the reader reaches the end of THE RUNAGATES CLUB, the range of fears that the stories explore, and the underlying opposition between the security of the society depicted, and the insecurity experienced by the characters when things go awry, have grown to encompass much of human experience”
Kate Macdonald exposes the lurking anxieties that drives Buchan’s tales of derring-do
5/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/the-runagates-club/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #shortstories
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“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”
Greg Michaelson compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
4/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Jacobite #HistoricalFiction #WalterScott #robertlouisStevenson
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“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”
Greg Michaelson compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
4/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Jacobite #HistoricalFiction #WalterScott #robertlouisStevenson
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“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”
Greg Michaelson compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
4/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Jacobite #HistoricalFiction #WalterScott #robertlouisStevenson
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“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”
Greg Michaelson compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
4/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Jacobite #HistoricalFiction #WalterScott #robertlouisStevenson
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“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”
Greg Michaelson compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
4/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Jacobite #HistoricalFiction #WalterScott #robertlouisStevenson
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“Tweeddale never lost its deep appeal for him, and it haunts much of his fiction”
Ursula Buchan revisits the rolling hills of her grandfather’s youth, tracing how place shaped a lifetime of writing
3/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/john-buchan-and-tweeddale/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Tweeddale #ScottishBorders
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“Identifying the supernatural as a consistent theme of Buchan’s fiction… reinforces Buchan’s status as a pre-eminent exponent of the supernatural tale and helps us to understand his wider oeuvre”
James Machin on Buchan as a writer of the weird
2/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/john-buchan-and-the-supernatural/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #supernatural #weird #weirdfiction
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“Buchan’s tales of trust and treachery, public duty and private doubt, still have questions to ask – and answers we might not entirely expect”
THE BOTTLE IMP tracks the many paths of one of Scotland’s most surprising storytellers in his 150th year
1/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/the-reign-of-saturn/
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John Buchan: A Man For Our Time?
Prof Murray Pittock discusses John Buchan – a literary legend & a man ahead of his time on issues from Scottish nationalism to the rights of indigenous peoples. Recorded at the 2025 Beyond Borders International Festival.
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Available on BBC Sounds from 31 August 2025
SICK HEART RIVER, John Buchan’s final novel, completed just days before his death, was published posthumously in 1941. An adventure yarn becomes a spiritual quest in the rugged Canadian wilderness.
8/8
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A Queer Warld
Four Short Stories by John Buchan
FREE EBOOKAlthough John Buchan is best remembered as the author of thrillers such as THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, it was his short fiction that established him as a master of storytelling & suspense
7/8
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/a-queer-warld/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #shortstories #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.”
—John Buchan, THE POWER-HOUSE (1914)David Goldie, speaking at our 2024 Schools Conference on why we should read John Buchan in the 21st century
6/8
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But Davie’s deid!
Nae mair gude nor ill can betide him.
We happit him doun by Beaumont toun,
And the half o’ my hert’s in the mools aside him.“Home Thoughts from Abroad”—one of John Buchan’s First World War poems, in Scots
5/8
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Scots #Scotslanguage #WarPoetry #FirstWorldWar
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Author of more than 100 books, dozens of short stories & poems, thousands of articles… Ursula Buchan explores her grandfather’s rich literary legacy, via CrimeReads
4/8
https://crimereads.com/learning-to-appreciate-john-buchan-for-more-than-the-thirty-nine-steps/
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“Class-conscious we are, and class-conscious wull be
Till our fit’s on the neck o’ the Boorjoyzee.”—Dougal, chief of the Gorbals Die-Hards, in John Buchan’s HUNTINGTOWER. Buchan’s father was a minister at the John Knox Free Church in the Gorbals
3/8
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17491019.gorbals-39-steps---can-learn-love-john-buchan/?ref=li
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Glasgow #Gorbals
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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS is a ticking bomb of a book. “The speed is breathtaking,” noted former MI5 chief Dame Stella Rimington. “It doesn’t matter that the reader has no clue where he is being taken.”
How THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS created the modern thriller
2/8
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/thirty-nine-steps-modern-thriller-john-buchan/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #thriller #spyfiction
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Novelist, historian, & politician John Buchan (1875–1940) – from son of the manse to Governor-General of Canada – was born #OTD, 26 Aug
A 🎂 🧵Nick Rankin examines Buchan’s literary legacy in THE BUCHAN TRADITION – currently available on BBC Sounds
1/8
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John Buchan: the master storyteller
4 Sept, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – free2025 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of John Buchan. Ursula Buchan, John Buchan’s granddaughter & biographer, will talk about the range of his fiction & its subject matter
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-buchan-the-master-storyteller-tickets-1480628713339
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John Buchan, Master Storyteller – with Ursula Buchan
5 September, Dunfermline – tickets £8.03Ursula Buchan, John Buchan’s granddaughter & biographer, marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most influential Scottish novelists of the 20th century with an in-depth examination of his literary accomplishments
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“A gripping, beautifully written, well-paced but introspective novel, it is perhaps Buchan’s finest achievement. He based the landscapes and the journey closely on some of his own travels in the northwest as Governor-General of Canada, and the book reflects clearly the immensity and variety not only of Canada’s landscapes but its peoples”
—Jordan M Poss on John Buchan’s SICK HEART RIVER
#CanadaDay 🇨🇦🏴
7/7
https://www.jordanmposs.com/blog/2022/6/30/sick-heart-river
#Scottish #literature #Canada #CanadaDay #Buchan #JohnBuchan
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🤔 Ah yes, the riveting world of Sigint fiction, where #cryptanalysis is as thrilling as watching paint dry on a damp day in February. 🕵️♂️🎨 Clearly, only the John Buchan #Journal could make decrypting wartime #ciphers sound as exciting as reading your car's manual. 📚🚗
https://siginthistorian.blogspot.com/2025/02/sigint-in-fiction.html #SigintFiction #JohnBuchan #ThrillingReading #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the riveting world of Sigint fiction, where #cryptanalysis is as thrilling as watching paint dry on a damp day in February. 🕵️♂️🎨 Clearly, only the John Buchan #Journal could make decrypting wartime #ciphers sound as exciting as reading your car's manual. 📚🚗
https://siginthistorian.blogspot.com/2025/02/sigint-in-fiction.html #SigintFiction #JohnBuchan #ThrillingReading #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the riveting world of Sigint fiction, where #cryptanalysis is as thrilling as watching paint dry on a damp day in February. 🕵️♂️🎨 Clearly, only the John Buchan #Journal could make decrypting wartime #ciphers sound as exciting as reading your car's manual. 📚🚗
https://siginthistorian.blogspot.com/2025/02/sigint-in-fiction.html #SigintFiction #JohnBuchan #ThrillingReading #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the riveting world of Sigint fiction, where #cryptanalysis is as thrilling as watching paint dry on a damp day in February. 🕵️♂️🎨 Clearly, only the John Buchan #Journal could make decrypting wartime #ciphers sound as exciting as reading your car's manual. 📚🚗
https://siginthistorian.blogspot.com/2025/02/sigint-in-fiction.html #SigintFiction #JohnBuchan #ThrillingReading #HackerNews #ngated -
The Buchan 150 Lecture
11 March, University of Glasgow & online – freeProf Murray Pittock will show how John Buchan (1875–1940), in both his political & fictional writing, analysed the issues of global security & national self-determination in ways more than ever relevant today.
#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #20thcentury #novel #politics #thriller
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Weird John Buchan
11 March, online – tickets £6.76James Machin discusses why John Buchan – remembered today as the author of spy thrillers such as THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (1915) – should be considered alongside M.R. James, Arthur Machen, & Algernon Blackwood as a master of “golden age” weird fiction
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weird-john-buchan-james-machin-tickets-1076533644109
#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #weirdfiction #20thcentury
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A Queer Warld
Four Short Stories by John Buchan
FREE EBOOKAlthough John Buchan (1875–1940) is best known as the author of thrillers such as THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, it was his short fiction that established him as a master of storytelling.
In these short stories, the landscape & elements are powerful presences, driving the characters’ moral & spiritual dilemmas as they face their different dangers.
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/a-queer-warld/
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But Davie’s deid!
Nae mair gude nor ill can betide him.
We happit him doun by Beaumont toun,
And the half o’ my hert’s in the mools aside him.“Home Thoughts from Abroad”—one of John Buchan’s First World War poems, in Scots
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Scots #Scotslanguage #WarPoetry #WarPoem #WW1
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/ -
Author of more than 100 books, dozens of short stories & poems, thousands of articles… Ursula Buchan explores her grandfather’s rich literary legacy, via CrimeReads
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan
4/6
https://crimereads.com/learning-to-appreciate-john-buchan-for-more-than-the-thirty-nine-steps/ -
“Class-conscious we are, and class-conscious wull be
Till our fit’s on the neck o’ the Boorjoyzee.”—Dougal, chief of the Gorbals Die-Hards, in John Buchan’s HUNTINGTOWER. Buchan’s father was a minister at the John Knox Free Church in the Gorbals
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Glasgow #Gorbals
3/6
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17491019.gorbals-39-steps---can-learn-love-john-buchan/ -
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS is a ticking bomb of a book. “The speed is breathtaking,” noted former MI5 chief Dame Stella Rimington. “It doesn’t matter that the reader has no clue where he is being taken.”
How THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS created the modern thriller
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #thriller #SpyThriller
2/6
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/thirty-nine-steps-modern-thriller-john-buchan/ -
Novelist, historian, & politician John Buchan (1875–1940) – from son of the manse to Governor-General of Canada – was born #OTD, 26 Aug
A 🎂 🧵Nick Rankin examines Buchan’s literary legacy in THE BUCHAN TRADITION – currently available on BBC Sounds
