John Buchan

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

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.

In this volume our classic authors including Victor Hugo, Thomas Wolfe, Ambrose Bierce, Ford Madox Ford and many others explore the many facets of war and its human dimensions.

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

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.

With three others, secret agent Richard Hannay travels across Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic messiah. Their success or failure could change the outcome of the First World War....

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....

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

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....

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War Sir, Edward Leithen is told that he has but one year left to live....

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

Five BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of John Buchan’s espionage thrillers featuring gentleman spy Richard Hannay....

John Buchan's hero Edward Leithen chances upon a worldwide plan for domination....

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

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

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

A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers....

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.....

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....

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