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It should also be noted that he was active on behalf of the Jews during the 1930s and, for this reason, his name appeared on Adolf Hitler's "hit list".)

A thoroughly engaging storyteller, Buchan's work stands the test of time, and he is currently undergoing a resurgence in popularity.

Buchan had a reputation for discretion. He was involved with the Intelligence Corps as a propagandist during World War I and may have had an involvement with British intelligence later; he is cited as having some involvement during the years leading to the Second World War by Canadian-born British spymaster William Stephenson.

In the 1930s Buchan gave financial and moral support to the poor, young academic Roberto Weiss, as Buchan was fascinated by the classical antiquity period Weiss studied, and wished to support this.

His autobiography Memory Hold-the-Door (published in the United States as Pilgrim's Way) was said to be John F. Kennedy's favourite book although a list given to Life magazine in 1961 quoted Montrose at the head of the list.

John Buchan is commemorated in Makars' Court, outside The Writers' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.

Selections for Makars' Court are made by The Writers' Museum; The Saltire Society; The Scottish Poetry Library.

Bibliography of principal works

Fiction

1898 John Burnet of Barns

1899 Grey Weather (stories and poems)

1899 A Lost Lady of Old Years

1900 The Half-Hearted

1902 The Watcher by the Threshold (stories)

1906 A Lodge in the Wilderness

1910 Prester John

1912 The Moon Endureth (stories and poems)

1915 Salute to Adventurers

1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps

1916 The Power House

1916 Greenmantle

1919 Mr Standfast

1921 The Path of the King

1922 Huntingtower

1923 Midwinter

1924 The Three Hostages

1925 John Macnab

1926 The Dancing Floor

1927 Witch Wood

1928 The Runagates Club (stories 1913-28)

1929 The Courts of the Morning

1930 Castle Gay

1931 The Blanket of the Dark

1932 The Gap in the Curtain

1932 The Magic Walking Stick (for children)

1933 A Prince of the Captivity

1934 The Free Fishers

1935 The House of the Four Winds

1936 The Island of Sheep

1941 Sick Heart River (also published as Mountain Meadow)

1941 The Long Traverse (also published as Lake of Gold)

Non-fiction

1896 Scholar-Gipsies (essays)

1903 The African Colony

1905 The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income

1908 Some Eighteenth Century Byways (essays and articles)

1911 Sir Walter Raleigh

1912 What the Home Rule Bill Means

1913 The Marquis of Montrose

1913 Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall

1915 Britain's War by Land

1915 The Achievement of France

1915 Ordeal by Marriage

1916 The Future of the War

1916 The Battle of the Somme, First Phase

1916 The Purpose of War

1916 The Battle of Jutland

1917 Poems, Scots and English

1917 The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase

1919 These for Remembrance

1919 The Battle Honours of Scotland 1914-1918

1920 The History of the South African Forces in France

1920 Francis and Riversdale Grenfell

1920 The Long Road to Victory

1921-2 A History of the Great War

1922 A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys

1923 The Last Secrets (essays and articles)

1923 A History of English Literature

1923 Days to Remember

1924 Some Notes on Sir Walter Scott

1925 The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers 1678-1918

1925 The Man and the Book: Sir Walter Scott

1925 Two Ordeals of Democracy

1926 Homilies and Recreations (essays and addresses)

1930 The Kirk in Scotland (with George Adam Smith)

1930 Montrose and Leadership

1930 Lord Rosebery, 1847-1929

1931 The Novel and the Fairy Tale

1932 Julius Caesar

1932 Andrew Lang and the Borders

1933 The Massacre of Glencoe

1933 The Margins of Life

1934 Gordon at Khartoum

1934 Oliver Cromwell

1935 The King's Grace

1937 Augustus

1938 The Interpreter's House

1938 Presbyterianism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1940 Memory Hold-the-Door (published as Pilgrim's Way in the United States)

1940 Comments and Characters

1940 Canadian Occasions

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