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Collins Classics: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
$5.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat.' When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potent ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
"Greenmantle" continues the thrilling adventures of Richard Hannay from convalescence following the Battle of Loos, back to London for a vital meeting at the Foreign Office and thence on a top-secret mission across war-torn German-occupied Europe. His mission; to neutralise and destroy a cunning and pot ...Show more
Greenmantle (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A cryptic message launches Major Richard Hannay into another adventure of intrigue, espionage, and danger. Setting out across war-torn Europe, and travelling to the heart of the Middle East, Hannay and his friends Sandy Arbuthnot, Peter Pienaar, and John S. Blenkiron must penetrate enemy lines, quell a ...Show more
Prester John by John Buchan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John. The setting is contemporaneous with publication: the beginning of the twentieth cen ...Show more
The Battle of the Somme: The First and Second Phase by John Buchan
$17.99 AUD
Category: Military
Published as a short work just a year after the battle, John Buchan's account of the first two phases of the Battle of the Somme, one of bloodiest battles of the Great War, leap off the page a century on. Buchan goes beyond the first day of the Somme to provide a valuable account of the extended battle ...Show more
The Complete Richard Hannay Stories by John Buchan
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre- ...Show more
The Island of Sheep by John Buchan
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides to mastermind the whole affair out of a sheer love of adventure and a dislike of villain ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Ha ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Popular Penguins by John Buchan
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In prohibition-era New York, Nick Charles plans to enjoy a quiet Christmas with his glamorous wife, Nora, their Schnauzer, Asta, and a case of good scotch. But the bullet-riddled corpse of a former lover, a missing inventor and a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns force him out of retire ...Show more
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