The Manners of a Hog
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Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan
by Ursula Buchan.
Bloomsbury, 479 pp., £25, April 2019,978 1 4088 7081 5 Show More
by Ursula Buchan.
Bloomsbury, 479 pp., £25, April 2019,
“... Witch Wood (1927) was his favourite – and his status as a Scottish monument, a descendant of Scott and Stevenson. There’s nothing fanciful about this – Janet Adam Smith reported that Clement Attlee pointed out to her a borrowing from Kidnapped in The Thirty-Nine Steps – and if he had had a slightly different temperament Buchan might have become a ... ”