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A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers....

The listener can now enjoy all five adventures of Buchan's indefatigable hero Richard Hannay in one bundle....

With three others, secret agent Richard Hannay travels across Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic messiah. Their success or failure could change the outcome of the First World War....

John Buchan takes us back to Edwardian Britain on the eve of the First World War in the modern thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps....

During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate. Amongst the very many was ‘The Yellow Book’....

Hannay to the rescue once more! This time...our hero is summoned from his tranquil life in rural Oxfordshire to save the world from a financial conspiracy....

Three young truants from a church meeting on Sunday make their way to a seashore hideaway, where they observe a huge black man muttering incantations and performing weird rites....

The world since earliest times has always had spies. Information is a valuable commodity and even more so in times of war or tension. Many authors and poets have had real life incarnations as spies from Christopher Marlowe and Aphra Behn to Daniel Defoe.

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.

In the days before the First World War, the measured routine of barrister and accidental Member of Parliament Edward Leithen is disrupted when Charles Pitt-Heron, an Oxford contemporary and now the husband of Leithen’s old flame, abruptly goes missing....

Published in 1927, Scottish writer John Buchan's Witch Wood is set in a rural parish located in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....

The classic adventure of Richard Hannay—an ordinary Englishman who is “pretty well disgusted with life.” His boredom takes a turn when he finds himself involved in a thrilling race to deliver important intelligence to the British government before German anarchists stop him....

Sir Richard Hannay begins to fear that his idyllic existence with his family in their Cotswolds home is a little too comfortable. Then echoes of a past adventure during his days in Africa, and an old oath to protect the son of the man whom he saved then, draw him into new danger....

This espionage novel set during the First World War features thrilling disguises, despicable plots, and some of the most devious spies in literature....

After his wartime exploits, Sir Richard Hannay is now married to Mary and determined to remain peacefully in their idyllic Cotswolds home. But when he receives appeals to help recover the kidnapped children of three prominent men, Hannay cannot in good conscience refuse....

1914. O mundo se vê na iminência de um colapso que alteraria irremediavelmente os rumos da História. Enquanto isso, o aventureiro Richard Hannay morre de tédio pelas agitadas ruas da City londrina....

Mr. Standfast is the third of Buchan's thrilling World War I adventure novels in which Brigadier-General Richard Hannay is reluctantly plucked from the trenches of the Western Front to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring....

John Buchan himself stated that he set out to write a book in the style of the ubiquitous American “Dime Novel”. What he actually succeeded in creating was a relatively unique and new genre for British literature, the Spy Novel....

A year after the adventure of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Major Richard Hannay is plucked from the trenches of the Western Front, and sent on a perilous journey through the very heart of the German empire, to Constantinople....

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) is an adventure novel in the espionage genre by the Scottish author John Buchan. A classic of the genre, it is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an action hero with a knack for getting himself out of difficult situations....