Author of Audiobooks - John Buchan
Greenmantle (Version 2) - John Buchan
Greenmantle (Version 2) - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay’s first and...
Huntingtower - John Buchan
Huntingtower - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held...
The Power-House - John Buchan
The Power-House - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. The narrator is the barrister and Tory MP Edward...
The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1939 classic film of...
Greenmantle - John Buchan
Greenmantle - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and...
Prester John - John Buchan
Prester John - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfurd before the age of twenty. As a boy growing up on the coast of Scotland, minister's son Davie and two...
Mr. Standfast - John Buchan
Mr. Standfast - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to engage in espionage, and forced...
The Three Hostages - John Buchan
The Three Hostages - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels. The Richard Hannay novels are action/mystery/spy novels with a James bond feel. This book starts out with Richard Hannay married to Mary Lamington living in Fosse Manor. He is asked to...
The Thirty-nine Steps (Version 3) - John Buchan
The Thirty-nine Steps (Version 3) - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adventure of "ordinary fellow" Richard Hannay, who is thrust into a plot involving the theft of crucial military...
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Version 2) - John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Version 2) - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Richard Hannay thirsts for adventure. Down and out in early retirement in South London, Hannay bores of the easy life. When Franklin Scudder reveals a secret ploy to set all of Europe to arms, Hannay finds his cure. With experience, intelligence,...
The Last Secrets - John Buchan
The Last Secrets - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Modern (20th C) / Exploration
The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and all that remains is but "amplifying our knowledge of the groyning and buttresses and...
A History of the Great War, Volume One - John Buchan
A History of the Great War, Volume One - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: War & Military
This is the first of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from its outbreak in the summer of 1914 to the campaign in Neuve Chapelle of March 1915. The author, John Buchan, was most widely known as the writer of the...