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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
9/9
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/a-queer-warld/
#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #20thcentury #shortfiction #shortstory #shortfiction
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John Buchan: A Man For Our Time?
Prof Murray Pittock paints a fascinating picture of John Buchan – a literary legend & a man who was ahead of his time on many issues that still resonate today, from Scottish nationalism to the rights of indigenous peoples
8/9
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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…”
—John Buchan, THE POWER-HOUSE (1914)David Goldie, at our 2024 Schools Conference, discusses why we should read John Buchan today
7/9
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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
6/9
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #20thcentury #poem #poetry #warpoem #warpoetry #ww1 #Scots #ScotsLanguage
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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 The History of Literature podcast
5/9
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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 1922 novel HUNTINGTOWERBuchan’s father was minister at the John Knox Free Church in the Gorbals, Glasgow
4/9
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17491019.gorbals-39-steps---can-learn-love-john-buchan/?ref=li
#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #20thcentury #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
3/9
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/thirty-nine-steps-modern-thriller-john-buchan/
#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #20thcentury #The39Steps #thriller #spythriller
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John Buchan wasn’t just a master of the suspense thriller: he also wrote poetry, short stories, essays, biographies & histories – & was an editor, publisher, intelligence officer, civil servant, politician, & churchman
Nick Rankin examines John Buchan’s life – currently available on BBC Sounds
2/9
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“The life of John Buchan reads like one of his adventure stories… he roamed both continents & careers alike, leaping from one cliffhanger to the next”
John Buchan (1875–1940) – from son of the manse to Governor-General of Canada – was born #OTD, 26 August.
A 🎂 🧵
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/the-reign-of-saturn/
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(male characters on the run written in that thriller novel style)
A Good Read
feat Daisy Dunn and Andrew Hunter Murray
The classicist and the author talk about books they love with presenter Harriett Gilbert. One of the books is eerily prescient about the state of the world today.
The books are:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, chosen by classicist Daisy Dunn
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household, chosen by podcaster and author Andrew Hunter Murray
A Life's Music by Andreï Makine, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, chosen by presenter Harriett Gilbert
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Beth O'Dea
Join us over on instagram @ agoodreadbbcPhoto credit: Timothy Foster
#Fahrenheit451 by #RayBradbury
#Daisy Dunn#RogueMale by #GeoffreyHousehold
#AndrewHunterMurray#ALifesMusic by #AndreiMakine
#HarriettGilbertmention of #TheThirtyNineSteps by #JohnBuchan
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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 🇨🇦🏴
https://www.jordanmposs.com/blog/2022/6/30/sick-heart-river
#Scottish #literature #novel #JohnBuchan #20thcentury #Canada #CanadaDay
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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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“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
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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
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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