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James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian. Biography Buchan is a son of the late William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, and grandson of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He has several brothers and sisters, including the writer Perdita Buchan. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he began his career as a Financial Times correspondent, writing from the Middle East, Germany, and the United States. In 1986, he married Lady Evelyn Rose Phipps, daughter of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby. She died in 2018. He has three children and lives in Norfolk, England. Bibliography Novels A Parish of Rich Women (1984) Whitbread Book of the Year award, Betty Trask Award Davy Chadwick (1987) Slide (1991) Heart's Journey in Winter (1995) (The Golden Plough in US) Guardian Fiction Prize High Latitudes (1996) A Good Place to Die (1999) (The Persian Bride in US) The Gate of Air (2008) A Street Shaken by Light (2022) Non-fiction Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money (1997) Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World (2003) (Crowded with Genius: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind in US) Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty (2006) (The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas in US) Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences (2012) The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Book Prize (Silver Medal) John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century (2018) References . Discover the James Buchan popular books. Find the top 100 most popular James Buchan books.

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How the Scots Made America
Michael Fry
Ever since they first set foot in the new world alongside the Viking explorers, the Scots have left their mark. In this entertaining and informative book, historian Michael Fry sho...
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent; communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory i...
The Secret Chamber
Patrick Woodhead
People have been disappearing in what the explorer Stanley called the black heart of Africa the impenetrable forests of northern Congo. But when a brilliant young English doctor v...
Soldiers and Lovers
Leslie Thomas
In a sunlit, secret valley in the green mountains of central Italy, two people meet away from the horrors and clamour of battle. David Hopkins, a young fisherman from west Wales an...
Wildwood
Janine Ashbless
Avril Shearing is a landscape gardener brought in to reclaim an overgrown woodland for the handsome and manipulative Michael Deverick. But among the trees lurks a tribe of environm...
A Perfect Husband
Hilary Boyd
'Tackles a difficult subject with a light touch to keep you turning the pages' VERONICA HENRYA perfect husbandTo their friends, Lily and Freddy have a great marriage. He taught h...
The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope
Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the wa...
By Battersea Bridge
Janet Davey
Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her more confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are...
Moving Target
Ross Kemp
Former Special Reconnaissance Regiment Sergeant Nick Kane always stands by his friends. So when an old comrade is leaned on by gangsters, Nick's only too happy to help. But Nick qu...
Instinct
Ben Kay
Hidden in a remote corner of the South American jungle is a clandestine research facility known simply as MEROS. Here, working in laboratories buried a thousand feet underground, m...
A Literary Review
Søren Kierkegaard & Alastair Hannay
While ostensibly commenting on the work of a contemporary novelist, Kierkegaard used this review as a critique of his society and age. The influence of this short piece has been fa...