| Author: | John Buchan |
| Novel: | 29 |
| Novellink: | Novels |
| Musiclink: | Songs and monologues |
| Collection: | 2 |
| Collectionlink: | Short story collections |
| Playlink: | Plays |
| Poem: | 4 |
| Poemlink: | Poetry collections |
| Editorbook: | 14 |
| Editorbooklink: | Editor |
| Option: | 42 |
| Optionname: | Non-fiction |
| Optionlink: | Non-fiction |
| 2Option: | 10 |
| 2Optionname: | Biographies |
| 2Optionlink: | Biographies |
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), was a Scottish novelist, historian, biographer and editor. Outside the field of literature he was, at various times, a barrister, a publisher, a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps, the Director of Information—reporting directly to prime minister David Lloyd George—during the First World War and a Unionist MP who served as Governor General of Canada, the fifteenth to hold the office since Canadian Confederation.
Born in Perth, Scotland, Buchan was admitted to the University of Glasgow in 1892 to study classics; during his first year at university he edited the works of Francis Bacon, which were published in 1894. The following year he was awarded a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford; shortly after his arrival he also published his first novel, Sir Quixote of the Moors, which he dedicated to Gilbert Murray, his university tutor. By the time he left the university he had published five books, including Scholar-Gipsies, his first work of non-fiction.
Much of Buchan's non-fiction mirrored his circumstances: his time in South Africa resulted in The African Colony, and the First World War led to a series of books about the war in general, and the Scottish and South African forces in particular. He interspersed his non-fiction with further novels, and also wrote ten biographies and four volumes of poetry, as well as numerous articles and stories for magazines and journals. During the war he wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps, the novel which has been adapted for film and television more than any of his other work, (film versions in 1935, 1959 and 1978 and a 2008 television version).
Buchan was the general editor of the Teaching of History series, published by T. Nelson Publishers between 1928 and 1930. In 1900 he was also a member of the editorial board of The Spectator.
| Title | Year of first publication | Author | First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon | Walter Scott Publishing Co | |||||
| Musa Piscatrix | Various | John Lane | ||||
| Methuen Publishing | ||||||
| Various | T. Nelson Publishers | |||||
| Miscellanies: Literary and Historical | Hodder & Stoughton | |||||
| Great Hours in Sport | Various | T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| –24 | Various | Hodder & Stoughton | Six unnumbered volumes | |||
| Various | T. Nelson Publishers | Abridged and published in 1937 as A Shorter History of English Literature. | ||||
| Various | Hodder & Stoughton | |||||
| Modern Short Stories | Various | T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| Essays and Studies | Members of the English Association | Oxford University Press, Oxford | ||||
| South Africa | Various | British Empire Educational Press | ||||
| Various | T. Nelson Publishers | Eleven volumes | ||||
| William Blackwood & Sons |
| Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Quixote of the Moors | T. Fisher Unwin | |||
| John Burnet of Barns | John Lane | |||
| John Lane | ||||
| Isbister. Serialised in Good Words, 1900[1] | ||||
| William Blackwood & Sons | ||||
| Prester John | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| Salute to Adventurers | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| William Blackwood & Sons | ||||
| William Blackwood & Sons | ||||
| Greenmantle | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Mr Standfast | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Huntingtower | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Midwinter | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| John Macnab | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Witch Wood | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Castle Gay | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Sick Heart River | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholar-Gipsies | John Lane | |||
| Robinson | ||||
| William Blackwood & Sons | ||||
| Stevens | ||||
| Some Eighteenth Century Byways | William Blackwood & Sons | |||
| Nine Brasenose Worthies | Clarendon Press, Oxford | |||
| What the Home Rule Bill Means | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| Nelson's History of the War (24 volumes) | –19 | T. Nelson Publishers | ||
| Britain's War by Land | Oxford University Press, Oxford | |||
| Methuen Publishing | ||||
| Ordeal by Marriage | Clay Publishing | |||
| Boyle, Sons & Watchurst | ||||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| J. M. Dent & Sons | ||||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| These for Remembrance | Privately printed, London | |||
| The Island of Sheep | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Outram | ||||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| Birkbeck College | ||||
| Days to Remember | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| Two Ordeals of Democracy | Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass | |||
| William Blackwood & Sons | ||||
| Homilies and Recreations | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Montrose and Leadership | Oxford University Press, Oxford | |||
| Andrew Lang and the Borders | Oxford University Press, Oxford | |||
| Peter Davies | ||||
| Gordon at Khartoum | Peter Davies | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Naval Episodes Of The Great War | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Presbyterianism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | Church of Scotland, Edinburgh | |||
| Memory Hold-the-Door | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Comments and Characters | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| Canadian Occasions | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Blackwell Publishing, Oxford | |||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall | William Blackwood & Sons | |||
| Francis and Riversdale Grenfell: A Memoir | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| Lord Minto: A Memoir | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| T. Nelson Publishers | ||||
| Montrose | T. Nelson Publishers | |||
| Sir Walter Scott | Cassell | |||
| Julius Caesar | Peter Davies | |||
| Oliver Cromwell | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Augustus | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwell Publishing, Oxford | ||||
| Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People (includes short stories) | John Lane | |||
| W Blackwood & Sons | ||||
| Poems: Scots and English | T.C. & E.C. Jack |
| Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People (includes poetry) | John Lane | |||
| W Blackwood & Sons | ||||
| W Blackwood & Sons | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Donald M. Grant, Publisher, West Kingston, RI |