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Showing posts with label The Thirty-Nine Steps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Thirty-Nine Steps. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 July 2020

John Buchan, L. M. Montgomery and some snakes

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I neither love and revere snakes nor hate and fear them. I once horrified a friend by trying to stroke a big snake in a small zoo. I couldn’...
Wednesday, 1 July 2020

84 years of John Buchan’s Island of Sheep

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The Island of Sheep , published as The Man from the Norlands in the US, is the fifth and final book in the series of John Buchan’s Richard H...
Monday, 26 August 2019

100 years of John Buchan’s Mr Standfast

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T his day, A ugust 26th, is John Buchan’s birthday. This article marks the 144th anniversary of his birth. T his year,   2019,  is the 100...
Saturday, 9 February 2019

Today is Anthony Hope’s birthday

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T he novelist and playwright who wrote under the name Anthony Hope was born on this day, February 9th, in 1863. A nthony Hope is the mai...
Tuesday, 5 June 2018

103 years of John Buchan’s 39 Steps

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T oday is the 103rd anniversary of the first appearance of John Buchan’s classic spy thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps . T his exciting adv...
Friday, 26 August 2016

Today is the 141st anniversary of John Buchan’s birthday

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J ohn Buchan was born on this day, August 26th, in 1875. H is birthplace was Perth, Scotland. The house where he was born fell into dis...
Friday, 26 June 2015

Hebden Bridge and Parliament: a strange suggestion

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T he Houses of Parliament are reported to be slowly turning into an uninhabitable ruin; an option under consideration is moving MPs and pee...