James Buchan

James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian.

Biography

Buchan is a son of the late William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, and grandson of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He has several brothers and sisters, including the writer Perdita Buchan. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he began his career as a Financial Times correspondent, writing from the Middle East, Germany, and the United States. In 1986, he married Lady Evelyn Rose Phipps, daughter of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby. She died in 2018. He has three children and lives in Norfolk, England.^[1]

Bibliography

Novels

A Parish of Rich Women (1984) Whitbread Book of the Year award,^[2] Betty Trask Award^[3]
Davy Chadwick (1987)
Slide (1991)
Heart's Journey in Winter (1995) (The Golden Plough in US) Guardian Fiction Prize
High Latitudes (1996)
A Good Place to Die (1999) (The Persian Bride in US)
The Gate of Air (2008)
A Street Shaken by Light (2022)^[4]

Non-fiction

Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money (1997)
Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World (2003) (Crowded with Genius: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind in US)
Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty (2006) (The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas in US)
Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences (2012) The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Book Prize (Silver Medal)
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century (2018)

References

^ "James Buchan Author". HarperCollins. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^ "Past Winners complete list" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
^ "The Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
^ Roberts, Adam (21 September 2022). "A Street Shaken by Light by James Buchan review – a ripping yarn". Guardian. Retrieved 3 April 2023.

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[1] "James Buchan Author". HarperCollins. Retrieved 3 April 2023.

[2] "Past Winners complete list" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2010.

[3] "The Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 14 December 2010.

[4] Roberts, Adam (21 September 2022). "A Street Shaken by Light by James Buchan review – a ripping yarn". Guardian. Retrieved 3 April 2023.

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v t e The Guardian's Guardian Fiction Prize
1965–1970	Crumb Borne by Clive Barry (1965) The Dear Green Place by Archie Hind (1966) Winter Journey by Eva Figes (1967) A Song and a Dance by P. J. Kavanagh (1968) Poor Lazarus by Maurice Leitch (1969) When Did You Last See your Father? by Margaret Blount (1970)
1971–1980	The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy (1971) G by John Berger (1972) In the Country of the Skin by Peter Redgrove (1973) The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (1974) Friends and Romans by Sylvia Clayton (1975) Falstaff by Robert Nye (1976) The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock (1977) The Murderer by Roy Heath (1978) Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan and The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1979) A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
1981–1990	Kepler by John Banville (1981) Where I Used to Play on the Green by Glyn Hughes (1982) Waterland by Graham Swift (1983) Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1984) Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (1985) Continent by Jim Crace (1986) The Levels by Peter Benson (1987) Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann (1988) Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City by Carol Lake (1989) Shape-Shifter by Pauline Melville (1990)
1991–1998	The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd (1991) Poor Things by Alasdair Gray (1992) The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (1993) Debatable Land by Candia McWilliam (1994) Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan (1995) Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (1996) Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1997) Trumpet by Jackie Kay (1998)

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