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Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan
by Ursula Buchan.
Bloomsbury, 479 pp., £25, April 2019,978 1 4088 7081 5 Show More
by Ursula Buchan.
Bloomsbury, 479 pp., £25, April 2019,
“... can’t get from Janet Adam Smith’s biography, which is better on Buchan’s writing, or from Andrew Lownie’s The Presbyterian Cavalier (1995). But Ursula Buchan does a skilful job of bringing her subjects to life, especially Susan, an intelligent, spottily educated woman who suffered intermittently from depression but determinedly launched her own ... ”