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,
“... Between the wars, the journalist Richard Usborne recalled in 1953, there was a feeling that John Buchan was good for you. ‘If not exactly the author set for homework, Buchan was certainly strongly recommended to the schoolboy by parent, uncle, guardian, pastor and master,’ he wrote in Clubland Heroes, a study of the thrillers he had enjoyed as a child ... ”
