Description John Buchan\'s name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps.
She is a daughter of John Buchan\'s second son, William..
She is an award-winning journalist and author, having written eighteen books and contributed regularly to the Spectator, Observer, Independent, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Telegraph and The Garden.
About the Author Ursula Buchan studied modern history at New Hall, Cambridge, and horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
With perception, style, wit and a penetratingly clear eye, she brings vividly to Life this remarkable man and his times.
Ursula Buchan, his granddaughter, has drawn on recently discovered family documents to write this comprehensive and illuminating biography.
His improbable marriage to a member of the aristocratic Grosvenor family means that this account of his Life contains, at its heart, an enduring love story.
His teenage years in Glasgow\'s Gorbals, where his father was the Free Church minister, contributed to his ease with shepherds and ambassadors, fur-trappers and prime ministers.
He was a scholar, antiquarian, barrister, colonial administrator, journal editor, literary critic, publisher, war correspondent, director of wartime propaganda, member of parliament and imperial proconsul - given a state funeral when he died, a deeply admired and loved Governor-General of Canada.
He wrote more than a hundred books - fiction and non-fiction - and a thousand articles for newspapers and magazines.
Yet there was vastly more to \'JB\'.
In the past hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock.
Description John Buchan\'s name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps
