John Buchan Fact of the Day (365/365) What better way to end this celebration of the 150th anniversary of John Buchan's birth than with his 1937 New Year's Day message to the people of Canada 🇨🇦 as Governor-General www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwc2... #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (364/365) Buchan was upset to discover the US edition of his 1895 novel Sir Quixote of the Moors was given a different ending, one that ruined the whole concept of the story #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (363/365) Buchan was unhappy when he discovered his publishers Fisher Unwin had added 'of the Moors' to the title of his 1895 novel Sir Quixote, apparently to fall in line with the fashion for such titles at the time #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

Front cover of hardback edition of Sir Quixote of the Moors by John Buchan. It has a red cover with title and author name in black text.

John Buchan Fact of the Day (362/365) Buchan contributed to 'Good Reading About Many Books Mostly By Their Authors', an 1895 compilation produced by publishers Fisher Unwin to promote their new books, including Buchan's novel Sir Quixote of the Moors #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (361/365) 'It is a book which I was bound one day or another to write' Buchan on his 1932 biography of Sir Walter Scott, one of his great literary heroes #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #nonfiction #SirWalterScott #biography #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (360/365) #OnThisDay in 1928, Buchan received a letter from T. E. Lawrence congratulating him on his biography of Montrose #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky💙📚

Hand drawn Christmas card bearing colour sketch of four children, one of whom is holding a bunch of holly. The greeting at the top reads Merry Xmas. At the bottom it reads From... All of us'

John Buchan Fact of the Day (359/365) The Buchan Children's Christmas card, 1926 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #Christmas 🎄🎁 #books #booksky 💙📚

Front cover of A Winter Bouquet by Susan Tweedsmuir (John Buchan's wife) featuring an illustration of a bouquet of red flowers and green foliage. Around the four sides of the cover are illustrations of garlands of green foliage with berries

John Buchan Fact of the Day (358/365) In her memoir A Winter Bouquet, Buchan's wife Susan wrote, "When I look back to my married life, it is like looking at a sunny upland landscape set in a timeless peace." ❤️ #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (357/365) 'I care little for the odour of the finer kinds, but I dearly love the smell of bad tobacco. There is something about it at once so wild and homelike, recalling warm fires and desolate peat-bogs' From Memory Hold-The-Door #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #booksky 💙🎄

Front cover of hardback edition of Memory Hold-The-Door, The Autobiography of John Buchan. The book has a white cover with green text and a black and white photograph of the author shown in profile. He is wearing a white shirt and tweed jacket and tie

John Buchan Fact of the Day (356/365) In his autobiography Memory Hold-The-Door, published in August 1940, Buchan writes, 'Looking back, my industry fills me with awe.' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (355/365) In A History of the Great War, Vol. IV (1921) Buchan wrote, 'Those who believed that victory would mean a fresh start with high hearts and girded loins and clear eyes in a new world were strangely forgetful of the lessons of history' #JBFactOfTheDay #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (354/365) According to Buchan's wife, brevity in speaking was a favourite theme of his. 'He always maintained there was no subject which could not be dealt with in a twenty-minute or at the most half-hour speech if you kept to the point' #JBFactOfTheDay #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (353/365) 'Once upon a time, as the story-books say, a boy came over a ridge of hill, from which a shallow vale ran out into the sunset.' From 'Fountainblue' first published in Blackwood's magazine in August 1901 #FirstLinesFriday #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (351/365) In Memory Hold-The-Door, published posthumously in August 1940, Buchan writes, 'I am not a very tractable person or much of a hero-worshipper, but I could have followed [T.E.] Lawrence over the edge of the world.' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

Photograph of Bear Rock in Canada, a mountainous outcrop with water in foreground against cloudless blue sky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (360/365) During a tour of the Northwest Territories while Governor General, Buchan climbed Bear Rock, choosing the hardest route. Learning of it, his wife told Secretary to the Governor General 'This tomfoolery must stop' #JBFactOfTheDay #Canada 🇨🇦 #JohnBuchan #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (349/365) On his 60th birthday in August 1935 whilst on a family holiday near Brecon, Buchan completed a 40 mile walk with his son Johnnie on one of the hottest days of the year #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (348/365) Of his father, William Buchan wrote 'In all the time I knew him, if he came up against any kind of brick wall, he either fetched a ladder, or walked on until he found a door. He never wasted a moment trying to scale the unscalable.' #JBFactOfTheDay #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (347/365) Buchan had digestive problems all his life. In 1916 while reporting from the Front he had a serious attack. Alone and in great pain he managed to crawl to the door of his billet and attract a sentry's attention #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

Front cover of Handheld Press paperback edition of The Runagates Club by John Buchan featuring a colour illustration of a man in a red shirt holding a whip advancing towards a prophet like figure in white robes

John Buchan Fact of the Day (346/365) "Between the Windrush and the Colne, I found a little house of stone, A wicked little house of stone." Epigraph to 'Fullcircle: Martin Peckwether's story' in The Runagates Club (1928) #FirstLinesFriday #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (345/365) As candidate for the Combined Scottish Universities seat in the 1929 General Election, Buchan's campaigning included 18 speeches in 10 days up and down Scotland and then 'three days of salmon-fishing till midnight' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (344/365) The profits from Buchan's 1920 memoir of his friends Francis and Riversdale Grenfell, twin brothers killed in WW1, went to the Invalid Children's Aid Association (now known as ICAN) #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #WW1 #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (343/365) In John Buchan by His Wife and Friends, historian A. L. Rowse recalled, "When John Buchan died, the Editor of The Times told me that never had they received so many tributes to a public figure, sheaves of them pouring in" #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (342/365) The Buchan family owned a Jack Russell terrier named Spider 🐕 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #dogs #booksky 💙📚

Front cover of hardback edition of The Power-House by John Buchan. Slightly faded red cover with black lettering

John Buchan Fact of the Day (341/365) "You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass." The words of Andrew Lumley in The Power-House, published in 1916 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (340/365) Buchan's brother Willie, born in 1880, won a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford before joining the Indian Civil Service. He died in 1912 while on leave in Glasgow of a streptococcal infection picked up in India #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #booksky 💙📚

Front cover of the Handheld Press edition of The Runagates Club by John Buchan featuring a colour illustration of a man in a red shirt clutching a whip approaching a bearded man dressed in long white robes who is holding up his hands, palms outward

John Buchan Fact of the Day (339/365) #FirstLinesFriday "Leithen's face had that sharp chiselling of the jaw and that compression of the lips which seem to follow upon high legal success." From 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' in The Runagates Club (1928) #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (338/365) In John Buchan: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, Kate Macdonald argues, 'Infiltration of society is what really professional Buchan villains do best', citing Dominick Medina in The Three Hostages #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (337/365) William Buchan recalled his father's library included a 'broad-backed, plum-coloured, sumptuously bound' copy of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, specially commissioned by T. E. Lawrence and given to people he respected #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (336/365) His son William recalled Buchan could seldom be got to read contemporary novels. Although he remembered him 'convulsed with silent laughter... chuckling away' while reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (335/365) Recalling a childhood spent on the Fife coast, Buchan wrote 'Winter meant vistas of frozen branches with cold blue lights between, tracks which had to be discovered among snowdrifts, and everywhere great pits of darkness.' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #booksky 💙📚