John Buchan

Artistically embarrassing but a hit: Shifters, at Duke of York’s Theatre, reviewed

31 August 2024 9:00 am

Shifters has transferred to the West End from the Bush Theatre. It opens at a granny’s funeral attended by the…

You know something’s up when MI6 moves its head office to Croydon

21 June 2014 9:00 am

Alan Judd’s spy novels occupy a class of their own in the murky world of espionage fiction, partly because they…

The Scot who became more Canadian than the Canadians

15 February 2014 9:00 am

When John Buchan was appointed Governor General of Canada in 1935, the country was deep in depression, the western provinces…

James Bond, author

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Matthew Woodcock reminds us that 007 was a man of letters too