{"product_id":"the-leithen-stories-9780862419950","title":"The Leithen Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Leithen is the closest of Buchan''s protagonists to the\u003cbr\u003eauthor''s own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer and\u003cbr\u003eMP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium of\u003cbr\u003erespectability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In The Power House he is forced by event and accident to see civilisation as a thin veneer over the human jungle; in John Macnab he makes his own adventure by playing the poacher; in Sick Heart River, seeking a lost friend he meets death and redemption in the wastes of Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach book contrasts with the others; each pulls us into Buchan''s world and holds us there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuchan knew that you can't buck the consequences of your actions, and\u003cbr\u003ethat your life is what you make of it. Perhaps his peculiarly Scottish\u003cbr\u003ecombination of Romanticism and Calvinism - daring living and high\u003cbr\u003ethinking - is due to return to fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e *  * The Independent Magazine *  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe explores different themes ... He expounds theories through a wide\u003cbr\u003evariety of subjects but all the while there is the basic ingredient of\u003cbr\u003etelling a good story so the reader can enjoy their sheer entertainment\u003cbr\u003evalue.\u003c\/p\u003e *  * Yorkshire Gazette and Herald *  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Buchan was the first to realise the enormous dramatic value of\u003cbr\u003eadventure in familiar suroundings happening to unadventurous men.\u003c\/p\u003e *  * Graham Greene *  *","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866106409303,"sku":"9780862419950","price":13.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780862419950.jpg?v=1722277067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-leithen-stories-9780862419950","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}