Greenmantle is the second of John Buchan's novels to feature Richard Hannay, a Scottish intelligence office in the British army, and as such is the sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps.The book gives the account of Hannay and his associate's separate journeys through war-torn Europe to Constantinople to thwart an uprising that is poised to throw the Middle East, India, and North Africa into disarray, changing the course of the war.The book was popular when firs...

Domestic Medicine by William Buchan is a comprehensive medical guide first published in the 18th century, designed to provide practical health advice and remedies for families and individuals without easy access to professional medical care. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the prevention and treatment of common diseases, the importance of hygiene, and the management of various health conditions using accessible household remedies. Buchan emphasizes the significance of die...

Published in 1915, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a thriller set in Britain on the eve of the First World War.The novel's protagonist, Richard Hannay, is an expatriate Scot who has just returned to London after many years in South Africa working in the mining industry. He finds England extremely dull and is just considering returning to South Africa when he is accosted by another inhabitant of the block of flats where he is living.This man, Scudder, tells Hannay he knows of a fan...

Published in 1922, Huntingtower is the first of John Buchan's novels to feature Dickson McCunn.McCunn, recently retired, embarks upon a walking tour of southwestern Scotland and encounters a poet and former soldier on his travels. They spend the evening in a small village, and when they investigate a large empty house nearby, they hear a woman singing from within. McCann's companion recognizes the woman's voice as belonging to a Russian princess he had worshiped from afar ...

Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and conceptual analysis of corruption which demonstrates a persistent oscillation between restrictive 'public office' and expansive 'degenerative' connotations of corruption from classical Antiquity to 1800.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, not...

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.The novel formed the basis for a number ...

‘Every student of the seventeenth century in England must desire sooner or later to have his say about its greatest figure.So says John Buchan in the preface to this magnificent biography, in which he sets out to reshape the way the soldier and statesman is perceived.Born in 1599, Cromwell was a devout Puritan who, when the civil war broke out, quickly joined the Parliamentary forces.He led those forces to victory in battles that included Marston Moor and Naseby, an...

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps.Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy's evil plan and solve the mystery of the "thirty-nine steps".In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests...

The story begins when Hannay, recently returned to England from South Africa, becomes caught up in a web of international intrigue. After receiving a cryptic warning from a mysterious American stranger, Scudder, Hannay finds himself accused of murder. With the police on his tail and unsure who to trust, Hannay goes on the run, determined to uncover the truth behind Scudder's warning.As Hannay eludes capture, he discovers a global conspiracy involving spies, political secrets, and a plot to...

One of the most exciting 'chase thrillers' ever published, and a huge influence not only on spy fiction, but on Hollywood as well, The 39 Steps is a book which has captured the imagination of audiences for decades. It was written by acclaimed Scottish author John Buchan, who inspired the writing of other great British novelists, including Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John le Carré. The 39 Steps remains his most famous work. It is the first of five novels featuring Richa...

Richard HannayMajor-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional secret agent and army officer created by Scottish novelist John Buchan. In his autobiography,Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War.[Novels]Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including:1.The Thirty-Nine Step...