John Buchan Reconsidered: Thirty-Nine Years of War and Peace 1901-1940

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An intimate picture of a novelist whose work was of national importance. Like his friend Lawrence of Arabia, he was something of a mystery: an intellectual who was also an adventurer; a profoundly private man who was a household name.

Edited by Marcus Paul with a Preface by Sir Niall Ferguson FRSE.

Buchan influenced policies which came to define Britain for almost forty years. This collection of essays reveals a man of principle , who was
often at odds with the dominant ideas of his age. He envisaged a world free of the shackles of the worst Victorian prejudices but founded on the clear thinking and high personal endeavour of figures from the past.

As Professor Sir Niall Ferguson writes: ‘Buchan emerges from this volume as a remarkably likable and tolerant man’, one to whose ‘prodigious literary legacy’ we can return ‘with renewed admiration’.