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Laudator Temporis Acti (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
John Buchan, An Autumn Picture : As here I sit this languid Autumn day, Before me stretch great shores of sunset leaves, Crowning the gaunt boughs ere the wind bereaves The woods of these, the lingering leaves of May. Crimson and golden in a death display Bright flare the blossoms of the falling year. Now gone the green of beech, and cold and sere The yielding hazel. All the skies are...
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Geranium Cat's Bookshelf (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Sadly, I have had to abandon my copy of Buchan’s Supernatural Tales in Devon, too bulky to carry home after three weeks’ absence, during which I didn’t find time to blog about it. My memory isn’t good enough to write in detail about individual stories, but I can give a flavour of it here. I found myself labelling it “sub-Lovecraft”; in fact, if you had asked...
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Jessica Blair (Free subscription) | yesterday
My entry of the 10th October shows how my early reading took me to John Buchan. I have twenty-six books by him on my bookshelves, the first, Prester John which was on my school list for reading. It led me into Greenmantle, John Macnab and all the others. One in particular has special memories for [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... in the wind. It is Stonehenge, where they are cornered as Tess sleeps. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan "I felt the terror of the hunted on me. It was not the police that I thought of, but the other folk, who knew that I knew Scudder's secret and dared not let me live". Richard Hannay is chased over the Scottish highlands by ruthless agents of a foreign power. Luckily...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Stephen Poliakoff returns to the cinema after a 10-year absence and, by jingo, he appears to have secured the ghost of John Buchan to be his chaperone. Glorious 39 is a ripping, old-school conspiracy thriller, played out in the fraught run-up to the second world war. It gives us dotty aunts and dodgy spies, showbiz starlets and imperilled young firebrands. There are secret documents...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Scottish author John Buchan penned The 39 Steps while in bed ill with a duodenal ulcer. Both stayed with him for the rest of his life – his stomach problems never cleared up and his novel, published in 1915, became his most famous despite his prolific output.
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Liverpool Confidential (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... slapstick. The Liverpool Playhouse, for example, is offering The 39 Steps, a comic version of John Buchan's stiff upper lip thriller, rewritten by Patrick Barlow and directed by Maria Aitken. The show won an Olivier comedy Award in the West End and has been recast for Liverpool with four actors playing 139 roles.Then there's the positively anti-panto. The Royal Court Theatre has a...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
IN JOHN Buchan's Huntingtower the Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn, on the first night of his walking-tour, lodges in a house where "he supped handsomely off ham and egg
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www.FrenchHelpServices.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... d’Alfred Hitchcock ‘Les 39 Marches’ d’après le roman de John Buchan, le grand père de Laura Buchan Chanter notre éditeur. Thursday 12 th November at 20.45 on French TV channel Arte you can see Alfred Hitchcock’s classic ‘The 39 Steps’ based on the novel by John Buchan our editor Laura Buchan...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... and their nasty successors who got carried away by fanatic ambitions. This is simply following John Buchan's excuse for the hero of his biography of the Marquis of Montrose changing sides.DAVID STEVENSONForgan WayNewport on Tay, Fife
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crivens, jings and help ma blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... own Grandfather who served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. This from the history of the regiment by John Buchan. The Attack on Guillemont. July 23rd 1916. " The enemy second line having been won from Pozieres to Delville Wood, the next main objectives became Pozieres and Guillemont - the first because it was part of the crest of Thiepval plateau and the second because its capture...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... likes of the Grossmith brothers in The Diary of a Nobody (1892), as bottom-clenched arrivistes. John Buchan saw them as a race as alien to him as any he had encountered in imperial Africa. By 1933, the International Congress of Modern Architecture was describing the suburbs as “a kind of scum, churning against the walls of the city… one of the greatest evils of the century”. Even...
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Biblical Recorder (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... just four things for which we should make time every single day: We should make time to PRAY. John Buchan once described an atheist as “a man with no invisible means of support.” Life can be meaningless and devoid of joy for those who have no invisible means of support. We live in an age where neuroses, psychoses, and nervous breakdowns are common. Terrorism on a widespread...
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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
UK Feature Film Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, John Buchan Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie Funny, thrilling, and sexy, Hitchcock’s prototypical wrong-man thriller - in which a Canadian, living and working in London, is wrongly implicated in the...
