History Creator / JohnBuchan

* FramingDevice: ''Midwinter'' begins with the twentieth-century discovery of a manuscript that tells the protagonist's story, with the added bonus that it explains why a particular period of Creator/SamuelJohnson's life is missing from Boswell's ''Life of Samuel Johnson'' (the time of [[UsefulNotes/HanoverStuartWars the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion]], to be precise). The story itself is the supposed manuscript, fleshed out by the discoverer for publication.

** In ''Midwinter'', the main character is assisted by Creator/SamuelJohnson.

** ''Midwinter'' (1923)

** An elderly [[UsefulNotes/HanoverStuartWars BonniePrinceCharlie]] appears in the short story "The Company of the Marjolaine".

* Buchan's short story compilations like ''The Runagates Club'' (1928) are long out of print; some of his short stories have since been republished under titles like ''The Best Short Stories of John Buchan'' and ''The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories'', while they also appear in various short story anthologies.

* NonstandardPrescription: ''John Macnab'' opens with a doctor suggesting that an excessively bored politician "steal a horse in some part of the world where a horse-thief is usually hanged" as a cure. The conversation when he mentions this to some friends leads to the actual plot of the story.

* RoguishPoacher: The protagonists of ''John Macnab'' — Edward Leithen, John Palliser-Yale and Lord Lamancha (the last of whom is a cabinet minister, no less) — collectively become this as a means of alleviating boredom; they send letters to to owners of tenants of three Highland estates declaring their intention to poach a deer or a salmon from their land and then deliver the carcass to them without getting caught, thus setting up the main plot of that novel.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Buchan made use of these from time to time.
** ''John Macnab'' ends with a brief description of how the story was kept out of the papers and what happened to the main characters in the months after the events of the novel.
** ''Witch Wood'' ends with a description of how the main characters of the book were remembered in subsequent centuries.

** ''John Macnab'' (1925)

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: ''Witch Wood'' ends with a description of how the main characters of the book were remembered in subsequent centuries.

* RoguishPoacher: The protagonists of ''John Macnab'' — Edward Leithen, John Palliser-Yale and Lord Lamancha (the last of whom is a cabinet minister, no less) — collectively become this as a means of alleviating boredom; they send letters to to owners of tenants of three Highland estates declaring their intention to poach a deer or a salmon from their land and then deliver the body to them without getting caught, thus setting up the main plot of that novel.

* GentlemanAdventurer: Sir Edward Leithen; this overlaps with RoguishPoacher in ''John Macnab'' in which he and two well-connected friends turn to poaching in order to alleviate their collective boredom.

* GoodShepherd: David Sempill, the protagonist of ''Witch Wood'', and his colleague Mr Fordyce, are ministers who labour tirelessly for the good of their parishes.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] novelist, historian and politician. Today, he is best known as the author of ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps'', the second of his then-contemporary [[{{Thriller}} thrillers]] (or 'shockers' as he called them). A prolific writer, he was the author of 28 novels and over 50 works of non-fiction. Despite ill health, in addition to his literary career he was also at various times a diplomat, a barrister, a journalist, the director of a publishing company, a wartime propagandist (rising to the position of Director of Information for the British government in the First World War) and a Member of Parliament before being appointed to be the 15th Governor General of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} (for which he was ennobled on the insistence of George V), a position he held from 1935 until his death in 1940. As Governor General, Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture. After his death, he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom. His posthumously-published autobiography, ''Memory Hold-the-Door'' (''Pilgrim's Way'' in the USA), is said to have been [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]]'s favourite book.

* FramingDevice: ''Midwinter'' begins with the twentieth-century discovery of a manuscript that tells the protagonist's story, with the added bonus that it explains why a particular period of Creator/SamuelJohnson's life is missing from Boswell's ''Life of Samuel Johnson'' (the time of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, to be precise). The story itself is the supposed manuscript, fleshed out by the discoverer for publication.

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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a [[UsefulNotes/Scotland Scottish]] novelist, historian and politician. Today, he is best known as the author of ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps'', the second of his then-contemporary [[{{Thriller}} thrillers]] (or 'shockers' as he called them). A prolific writer, he was the author of 28 novels and over 50 works of non-fiction. Despite ill health, in addition to his literary career he was also at various times a diplomat, a barrister, a journalist, the director of a publishing company, a wartime propagandist (rising to the position of Director of Information for the British government in the First World War) and a Member of Parliament before being appointed to be the 15th Governor General of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} (for which he was ennobled on the insistence of George V), a position he held from 1935 until his death in 1940. As Governor General, Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture. After his death, he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom. His posthumously-published autobiography, ''Memory Hold-the-Door'' (''Pilgrim's Way'' in the USA), is said to have been [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]]'s favourite book.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and politician. Today, he is best known as the author of ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps'', the second of his then-contemporary [[{{Thriller}} thrillers]] (or 'shockers' as he called them). A prolific writer, he was the author of 28 novels and over 50 works of non-fiction. Despite ill health, in addition to his literary career he was also at various times a diplomat, a barrister, a journalist, the director of a publishing company, a wartime propagandist (rising to the position of Director of Information for the British government in the First World War) and a Member of Parliament before being appointed to be the 15th Governor General of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} (for which he was ennobled on the insistence of George V), a position he held from 1935 until his death in 1940. As Governor General, Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture. After his death, he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom. His posthumously-published autobiography, ''Memory Hold-the-Door'' (''Pilgrim's Way'' in the USA), is said to have been [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]]'s favourite book.

** Dominick Medina in The ''Three Hostages'' is a well-known and respected public figure who also happens to be the head of an international crime syndicate. Even Richard Hannay doesn't believe Medina's a bad guy until he personally tries to put him out of the way.

* BlitheSpirit: Katrine, the hero's love interest in ''Witch Wood'', is a free-spirited daughter of aristocracy who tries to make things better for the hero and his parish.

** ''Witch Wood'' begins with a prologue set in the present day, in which Woodilee is a safe, modern town with a handful of quaint traditions. The rest of the novel takes place nearly 300 years earlier, where Woodilee is a cluster of hovels in the shadow of the sinister Melanudrigill forest, and the pagan rituals are far less innocent.

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Woodilee, the setting of ''Witch Wood'', is based heavily on the town of Broughton in the Scottish Borders, where Buchan had a holiday home.