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Forever associated with the classic thriller The Thirty-nine Steps, Buchan wrote over a hundred books, including a series of 'shockers', children's books, biographies, tales of the supernatural and what many regard as the finest history ever written of the Great War. A man of formidable energy, he also had a distinguished career in public life. He ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and after eight years as a Conservative MP he ended his career as Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada. Andrew Lownie draws on private papers not used before, painting a compelling picture of Buchan's life and a panoramic view of British political, social and literary circles during the first half of the twentieth century.
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“ Lively and brilliantly researched new biography of one of Scotland’s most enduringly popular writers... -- The Scotsman
“ Lownie’s thoroughgoing, sympathetic biography broadens the view on one of the century’s great popular novelists -- The Daily Telegraph
“ The best biography yet of the creator of Richard Hannay and The Thirty-Nine Steps. -- Express on Sunday
“...an affectionate, admirably well-researched study from an intelligent biographer. Well worth reading.” -- Daily Mail
“...meticulously researched and mounts a persuasive case for reassessing Buchan” -- Sunday Times
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“ Lownie’s thoroughgoing, sympathetic biography broadens the view on one of the century’s great popular novelists -- The Daily Telegraph
“ The best biography yet of the creator of Richard Hannay and The Thirty-Nine Steps. -- Express on Sunday
“...an affectionate, admirably well-researched study from an intelligent biographer. Well worth reading.” -- Daily Mail
“...meticulously researched and mounts a persuasive case for reassessing Buchan” -- Sunday Times
Andrew Lownie was born in 1961 and educated at Fettes, Westminter and Magdalene College, Cambridge where he was President of the Union. Like Buchan he has been a law student, a journalist contributing to The Times and Spectator, a parliamentary candidate in Scotland and has worked in publishing. A Council Member of the John Buchan Society, he has written introductions to several Buchan novels and has edited collections of Buchan's poetry and short stories. He now lives in London.
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0712697357
- ISBN 13 9780712697354
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