John Buchan

Once again Brigadier General Hannay is taken from the trenches of the front line to save his country on a desperate mission....

An espionage thriller that has been called the first great spy novel, it has sustained its popularity, being embraced by each new generation....

Hannay to the rescue once more! This time...our hero is summoned from his tranquil life in rural Oxfordshire to save the world from a financial conspiracy....

Greenmantle sees the return of Richard Hannay as he is sent on a secret mission to weaken Germany's efforts during the First World War....

The last of John Buchan’s thrillers and the final appearance of Richard Hannay now in retirement reverie deep in the comfortable Cotswolds....

The listener can now enjoy all five adventures of Buchan's indefatigable hero Richard Hannay in one bundle....

Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland....

The second of Richard Hannays’ adventures takes him from the trenches of the First World War on a mission of vital importance to the British campaign in the East....

Following the conclusion of the Great War, Hannay has retired from British intelligence. He is coaxed from retirement to aid in the rescue of three prominent hostages held by an international criminal organization bent on controlling the disturbed minds of those affected by the Great War.

Leithen’s quiet life is disrupted when he is pitted against the murderous forces of an international network of anarchists, and its chilling leader.

Here is one of the first espionage thrillers and an acknowledged classic....

Sir Richard Hannay introduces this last adventure involving his old friends....

Richard Hannay, Buchan's hero in this 1915 thriller, stumbles across a dark plot to attack England by the German Reich....

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.

Three gentlemen not wholly useless to their country—a lawyer, a banker, and a cabinet minister—have suddenly fallen into a state of profound ennui. Each seeks to rediscover the comfort of their lives through ‘the tonic of difficulty': adopting the nom de guerre of ‘John Macnab', they...

A fascinating collection of short stories by great writers that examine aspects of the first world war....

Going against everything Hannay believes in, he finds himself working undercover infiltrating a pacifist organisation....

What is sinister preacher John Laputa doing on a remote Scottish shore in the moonlight hours? Young David Crawfurd and his friends are lucky to escape with their lives when they disturb his rituals.....

Mr. Standfast is the third of Buchan's thrilling World War I adventure novels in which Brigadier-General Richard Hannay is reluctantly plucked from the trenches of the Western Front to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring....

The Thirty-Nine Steps begins John Buchan’s series of spy novels featuring adventurer Richard Hannay. Having just returned from South Africa, he finds life dull until a mysterious American tells him about an assassination plot before being murdered in Hannay’s London flat.