Curlews in The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan’s thrillers are not exactly politically correct by today’s standards, but contain many gems of prose – especially on the natural world and on the cares of power. There is…
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“the culture of the Mechanics’ Institute”
Reading John Buchan’s “The Island of Sheep”, the last of (and the best of) the Richard Hannay novels, I came across this arresting passage (spoken by Sandy Arbuthnot on his…
“a confidence man, ivory poacher and all-round rogue “
The opening line of John Seabrook’s Wikipedia bio is pretty impressive, but here we find a better: Pseudonym of UK-born author William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940), who emigrated to the USA…
“The Gap in The Curtain”, John Buchan
Inspired by this post on The Dabbler , I purchased the slightly incongruously named Sir Edward Leithen Megapack a while back. I was using the comments section of the same Dabbler post to update an…
Séamus Sweeney 