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Early life

John Buchan was born on 26 August 1875 in Perth, the eldest of five children.

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His father was a lively Free Church minister and an enthusiast of border ballads and other Scots songs. He was an indulgent parent in contrast to Buchan's mother, Helen Jane Masterton. She epitomised Free Church virtues and was austere, reserved and respectable.

In 1876 the family moved to a small mining town in Fife when his father became the Free Church minister there.

As a young boy, Buchan played on the shore of the River Forth and relished his holidays on his relatives' farm at Broughton in the Borders.

By John Buchan.

By John Buchan.

I was, thirty-seven years old, healthy, with enough 'money to have a good time, and bored to death, 'That evening I went out to dinner and sat reading the.

A thrilling tale of murder, deceit and spies on the brink of war!

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John Buchan's thrilling tale of an innocent man caught up in a of spies, lies and murder.

This is where he first became fascinated with the Border rivers, hills, shallow glens and their people. This was to be the staple of much of his writing.

Buchan and the First World War

Buchan was medically unfit for active service in 1914.

Confined to bed in the early months of the war, he began to write, with help, an account of the unfolding events in seriali