John Buchan

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1915
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Richard Hannay

Mr. Standfast (May-1956)
The Island of Sheep (Jun-2010)
The Three Hostages (Jun-2010)

Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps

    I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me, and those are things that no men or women ought to feel. When adventurer Richard Hannay is alerted of an assassination plot that could completely take down Europe, ...

  • The Powerhouse

    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-N...

  • Mr. Standfast

    Richard Hannay

    In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Although Mr. Standfast is a sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps...

  • Prester John

    Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories. In his remote store David finds himself wit...

  • John Macnab

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Witch Wood

    First published in 1927 and set in the 17th century, this is a wonderful story of witchcraft in the forests of England....

  • Greenmantle

    In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron...

  • The Complete Richard Hannay

  • The Adventures of Dickson McCunn



  • The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay

    Here, from the father of spy fiction, is the grand sequence of his great master spy's adventures in four famous books: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr. Standfast and The Three Hostages.


    From the introduction by Robin W. Winks:
    Jo...

  • The Leithen Stories

    Four classic adventure novels starring Scottish hero Sir Edward Leithen from the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, who “invented the modern spy novel” (New Statesman).   Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, politician, sportsman and occasional philos...

  • Huntingtower

    Originally published in 1922, 'Huntingtower' by John Buchan is set in Scotland and follows the adventures of Dickson McCunn, a newly retired grocer planning a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland, where he meets John Her...

  • Salute to Adventurers

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  • John Bernet of Barns a Romance

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the ori...

  • Supernatural Buchan - Stories Of Ancient Spirits Uncanny Places And Strange Creatures

    Supernatural Buchan - Stories of Ancient Spirits uncanny places and strange creatures. Buchan's stories of solid characters clad in tweeds and braving all odds armed only with a stout walking stick have become popular classics. Perhaps it is therefor...

  • Sick Heart River

    “Sick Heart River” is a powerful and compelling novel originally published in 1941. It is John Buchan's last novel which was completed days before his death in 1940. It follows a dying protagonist, Edward Leithen, who confronts the question of th...

  • The Magic Walking Stick and Stories from the Arabian Nights

    This charming one-of-a-kind classic is a beautiful compilation which includes the timeless story, The Magic Walking-Stick and several additional Arabian Nights classic stories including; The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, The Story of the Magic Horse, The ...

  • The Dancing Floor

    Edward Leithen is one of John Buchan's most famous heroes. Here Leithen finds himself in Greece with an old friend and must save the life a stubborn but beautiful young women....

  • Sir Quixote of the Moors

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  • Midwinter

    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 informatio...

  • Castle Gay

    A classic novel featuring Dickson McCunn, introduced in John Buchan's previous book 'Huntingtower', and his adopted son Jaikie, who meets a media mogul named Craw.Jaikie and Craw embark on life-chaging travels around the Scottish wilderne...

  • The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn and Other Stories

    In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappe...

  • The Free Fishers

    A wonderful tale of treason and romance. Anthony Lammas, a professor at the St. Andrews University, finds himself involved in a web of intrigue that threatens the whole country....

  • Heart's Journey in Winter

  • Richard Hannay's War Adventures

    Published near the beginning of World War I The Thirty-Nine Steps is one of the earliest examples of the man-on-the-run thriller archetype in which the author, John Buchan, holds up Richard Hannay as an example to his readers of an ordinary man who p...

  • The 39 Steps & the Powerhouse

    Perhaps more than any other book "The Thirty-Nine Steps" has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan, only a very few, like Graham Greene, have managed t...

  • The Island of Sheep

    Richard Hannay

    I have never believed, as some people do, in I omens and forewarnings, for the dramatic things in my life have generally come upon me as suddenly as a tropical thunderstorm. But I have observed that in a queer way I have been sometimes prepared for t...

  • The Three Hostages

    Richard Hannay

    The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy....

  • The Complete Richard Hannay Stories

    Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with...



  • John Buchan

    "Greenmantle," by John Buchan, is actually based on a remarkable, if little-known, aspect of German propaganda during World War I. It involved Kaiser Wilhelm declaring himself a convert to Islam, a leader of "jihad," as a tactic for winning the suppo...

  • The Blanket Of The Dark

    A grand, sweeping historical drama. Set in Mediaeval England during a tense time as a the country waits for the new king to be crowned. A enthralling, richly detailed story of intrigue and passion....

  • The Gap In The Curtain

    This book contains the classic supernatural novel 'The Gap In the Curtain', by the well-known John Buchan. The story is set in a country house, where guests are enabled by an eccentric scientist to see a glimpse of their futures. An entertain...

  • Montrose: A History

    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist probably best known for The Thirty-Nine Steps and a Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. "The Great Montrose" -- James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (16...

  • The Long Traverse

    This enchanting adventure tells the story of Donald, a boy spending his summer holidays in the Canadian countryside. John Buchan knew that some Indians were said to have the power of projecting happenings of long ago onto a piece of calm water. In th...

  • THE KING'S GRACE

    John Buchan, the novelist, the politician, the historian, was appointed Governor General of Canada in 1935. He created memorable characters of fiction, such as Dickson McCunn, Richard Hannay and Sir Edward Leithen, but also wrote amazing volumes on t...

  • Adventurers All

    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...

  • A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys

    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-N...

  • The Moon Endureth

    Around my feet the clouds are drawn In the cold mystery of the dawn; No breezes cheer, no guests intrude My mossy, mist-clad solitude; When sudden down the steeps of sky Flames a long, lightening wind. On high The steel-blue arch shines clear, and fa...

  • The Complete Short Stories - Volume Three

    The stories in this third and final volume of John Buchan’s complete short stories were written between 1912 and his death in 1940. These are the stories published when Buchan was at the height of his fame. Eight of them appear here for the first t...



  • The Courts of the Morning

    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 hav...

  • No-Man's-Land

    This early work by John Buchan was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'No-Man's-Land' is a short story about a student on a fis...

  • What I Saw in California

    'Do you wonder?' he cried. 'For three hundred years they have been persecuted, and this is the return match for the pogroms. The Jew is everywhere, but you have to go far down the backstairs to find him. Take any big Teutonic business concern. If you...

  • The Complete Richard Hannay Series

    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...

  • The Grove of Ashtaroth

    The Grove of Ashtaroth by John Buchan Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@public...

  • The Spy Trilogy

    The Spy Trilogy includes three spy thrillers. The first one is The Thirty-Nine Steps and followed by Greenmantle, and Mr. Standfast. The Thirty-Nine Steps: Hannay, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. O...

  • Space

    A moody kind of horror story. On a Scottish deer hunt, with night falling, one friend tells another of a brilliant mathematician he knew. The man's work led him to believe other worlds existed amidst ours. He gradually came to see, and live in these ...

  • Scholar Gispies

    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-N...

  • Lake of Gold

  • Four Tales - The Thirty-Nine Steps - The Power-House - The Watcher By The Threshold - The Moon Endureth

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    This early works containing four tales is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive....



  • Grey Weather

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  • The Half-Hearted

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    John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently been turned into a popular British television show.&#...

  • The House Of The Four Winds

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    This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing t...

  • A Lost Lady Of Old Years

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Moon Endureth Tales and Fancies

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    The Moon Endureth by John Buchan is a collection of tales and fancies, in prose and verse, which were originally published in Blackwood's Magazine. It includes From the Pentlands looking North and South, The Company of the Marjolaine, Avignon 1759, L...

  • The Outgoing Of The Tide

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    Many crime and detective stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original te...

  • The Path of the King

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    What is the true root of royal blood? A band of gold belonging to a young Viking prince is passed from generation to generation. Follow this convoluted, yet heroic, path to the making of one of history's greatest leaders....

  • A prince of the captivity

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    A classic John Buchan story of daring-do and espionage during World War I. A Prince of the Captivity is a 1933 novel by Scottish author John Buchan. It centres around Adam Melfort, a man who weds a young and beautiful socialite that does not return ...

  • The Watcher by the Threshold and Other Tales

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    John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.  Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently been turned into a popular British television show.&#...

  • Runagates Club

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    Twelve stories comprise John Buchan's last collection of short stories, a classic of British interwar short fiction written from 1913 to 1927.Buchan's most popular character Richard Hannay battles an ancient curse in South Africa in `The Green Wildeb...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Buchan has published 59 books.

John Buchan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lake of Gold, was published in September 2021.

The first book by John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, was published in January 1915.

Yes. John Buchan has 1 series.
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