The Runagates Club by John Buchan
The Runagates Club is John Buchan's last collection of short stories, and is a classic of British interwar short fiction. These twelve stories were written from 1913 to 1927, when he was at the peak of his powers, reprinted here with a critical introduction by Kate Macdonald.
John Buchan was born in 1875 in Perth, the son of a Presbyterian minister. After attending Glasgow University he took a Double First in Great at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, read for the Bar, served in South Africa's reconstruction after the Second Boar War, worked as a reviewer and political commentator and briefly as deputy editor of The Spectator, entered publishing with Thomas Nelson & Sons, and developed the British government's propaganda as Director of Information during the First World War. By 1928 Buchan was Deputy-Director of Reuters, a Member of Parliament, and in 1935 would become Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada. He died in 1940, and is buried in the churchyard in Elsfield, Oxfordshire, near his home. Kate Macdonald (author of the Introduction) is a literary historian and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Eglish Literature at the University of Reading. She has published widely on twentieth-century British book history and publishing culture, on publishing during the First World War, and on the fiction and professions of John Buchan. Her most recent books are Novelists Against Social Change (2015) and Rose Macaulay, Gender and Modernity (ed. 2017).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781999828011 |
| ISBN 10 | 1999828011 |
| Title | The Runagates Club |
| Author | John Buchan |
| Series | Handheld Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Handheld Press |
| Year published | 2017-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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