John Buchan

The Thirty-nine Steps


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Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve …

Mr. Standfast


Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World Wa…

Huntingtower


Read by Simon Evers


Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

Greenmantle


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Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one…

The Power-House


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The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's …

Greenmantle (Version 2)


Read by Tom Weiss


Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one…

Prester John


Read by Grant Hurlock


This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfur…

The Island of Sheep



This is the last of Buchan’s ‘Richard Hannay’ novels. It’s cast of Characters, in addition to Hannay himself, includes from earlier novels, …

The Three Hostages


Read by Kimberly Krause


The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels. The Richard Hannay novels are action/mystery/spy novels with a James bond fe…

The Island of Sheep



This is the last of Buchan’s ‘Richard Hannay’ novels. It’s cast of Characters, in addition to Hannay himself, includes from earlier novels, …

Saturday Night Theatre



BBC show

John Buchan - Greenmantle



Greenmantle By John Buchan, dramatised by Patricia Hannah A ripping yarn by any standards, Greenmantle is set across two action-pa…

The Thirty-nine Steps (Version 3)


Read by Cliff Stone


The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adv…

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Version 2)


Read by Tom Haire


Richard Hannay thirsts for adventure. Down and out in early retirement in South London, Hannay bores of the easy life. When Franklin Scudder…

The Last Secrets


Read by Steven Seitel


The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two dec…

John Buchan The Three Hostages



Dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules 1924: Make the Acquaintance of a Popular Man. Some years after his adventures in The 39 Steps, R…

A History of the Great War, Volume One


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This is the first of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from its outbreak in the summer of 1914 to the campai…

John Buchan - Mr Standfast



Mr. Standfast John Buchan's First World War thriller, dramatised by Bert Coules. 1/2. Richard Hannay is ordered to pose as a pacifist and se…

Witch Wood By John Buchan



A fervent Scottish minister takes on Satan and his own church elders. John Buchan's 17th-century witching tale stars Paul Young.

First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I


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This collection of non-fiction and fiction, with its companion poetry collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th J…

Greenmantle (Version 3)


Read by Cliff Stone


Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to m…

Short Story Collection Vol. 103


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We present the 103rd edition of the Librivox Short Story Collection. All stories are selected by the reader. This collection includes works …

A History of the Great War, Volume Two


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This is the second of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from the opening of the Dardenelles Campaign in Sept…

LibriVox 9th Anniversary Collection


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This year is the 9th anniversary of our illustrious community, and readers have found and recorded 99 items with a connection with the numbe…

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies


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Celebrated Scottish author John Buchan, creator of the Richard Hannay series of thrillers (including The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle) …

John McNab


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Sir Edward Leithen and his friends Lord Lamancha, Palliser-Yeates, and Archie Roylance are bored of life. After Leithen's doctor recommends …

A History of the Great War, Volume Three


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This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in along the Ypres Salient in February 1916 and stopping mid-Novem…

A History of the Great War, Volume Four: Book 3, The Great Sallies (cont.) and …


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This is the fourth of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in during 1917, when Germany is reorganizing and Russia is about …

Poems


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John Buchan was a Scottish writer, poet and diplomat who became Governer General of Canada. Best known for his novels (The Thirty-Nine Steps…

Short Poetry Collection 248


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This is a collection of 52 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during January 2024.