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Selected Works:

Fiction:

John Burnet of Barns - 1898
Grey Weather - stories and poems - 1899
A Lost Lady of Old Years - 1899
The Half-Hearted - 1900
The Watcher by the Threshold - stories - 1902
A Lodge in the Wilderness - 1906
Prester John - 1910
The Moon Endureth - stories and poems - 1912
Salute to Adventurers - 1915
The Thirty-Nine Steps - 1915
The Power House - 1916
Greenmantle - Nelson, 1916
Mr Standfast - 1919
The Path of the King - 1921
Huntingtower - 1922
Midwinter - 1923
The Three Hostages - 1924
John Macnab - Hodder & Stoughton, 1925
The Dancing Floor - 1926
Witch Wood - 1927
The Runagates Club - stories 1913-28 - 1928
The Courts of the Morning - 1929
Castle Gay - 1930
The Blanket of the Dark - 1931
The Gap in the Curtain - 1932
The Magic Walking Stick - for children - 1932
A Prince of the Captivity - 1933
The Free Fishers - Hodder & Stoughton, 1934
The House of the Four Winds - 1935
The Island of Sheep - Hodder & Stoughton, 1936
Sick Heart River - also published as Mountain Meadow - 1941
The Long Traverse - also published as Lake of Gold - 1941
The Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy - stories, 1984

Non-fiction:

Scholar-Gipsies - essays - 1896
The African Colony - 1903
The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income - 1905
Some Eighteenth Century Byways - essays and articles - 1908
Sir Walter Raleigh - 1911
What the Home Rule Bill Means - 1912
The Marquis of Montrose - 1913
Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall - 1913
Britain's War by Land - 1915
The Achievement of France - 1915
Ordeal by Marriage - 1915
The Future of the War - 1916
The Battle of the Somme, First Phase - 1916
The Purpose of War - 1916
The Battle of Jutland - 1916
Poems, Scots and English - 1917
The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase - 1917
These for Remembrance - 1919
The Battle Honours of Scotland 1914-1918 - 1919
The History of the South African Forces in France - 1920
Francis and Riversdale Grenfell - 1920
The Long Road to Victory - 1920
A History of the Great War - 1921-22
A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys - 1922
The Last Secrets - essays and articles - 1923
A History of English Literature - 1923
Days to Remember - 1923
Some Notes on Sir Walter Scott - 1924
The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers 1678-1918 - 1925
The Man and the Book: Sir Walter Scott - 1925
Two Ordeals of Democracy - 1925
Homilies and Recreations - essays and addresses - 1926
The Kirk in Scotland - with George Adam Smith - 1930
Montrose and Leadership - 1930
Lord Rosebery, 1847-1929 - 1930
The Novel and the Fairy Tale - 1931
Julius Caesar - 1932
Andrew Lang and the Borders - 1932
The Massacre of Glencoe - 1933
The Margins of Life - 1933
Gordon at Khartoum - 1934
Oliver Cromwell - 1934
The King's Grace - 1935
Augustus - 1937
The Interpreter's House - 1938
Presbyterianism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - 1938
Memory Hold-the-Door - published as Pilgrim's Way in the United States - 1940
Comments and Characters - 1940
Canadian Occasions - 1940                          

Mother Helen Jane Masterton
Father John Buchan, five children.                          

15th Governor General of Canada.