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The Free Fishers

by John Buchan

ISBN: 9781846970658
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

'John Buchan was the first to realise the enormous dramatic value of adventure in familiar surroundings happening to unadventurous men.' - Graham Greene

When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, leaves his home town for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue. But he's no ordinary professor. His boyhood allegiance to a brotherhood of deep-sea fishermen is to involve him and handsome ex-pupil, Lord Belses, with a beautiful but dangerous woman.

Set in the bleak Yorkshire hamlet of Hungrygrain during the Napoleonic Wars, this is a stirring tale of treason and romance.

One of Alfred Hitchcock's favourite writers, John Buchan was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. He published nearly 30 novels and seven collections of short stories. He was born in Perth, an eldest son, and studied at Glasgow and Oxford. In 1901 he became a barrister of the Middle Temple and a private secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa. In 1907 he married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor and they subsequently had four children. After spells as a war correspondent, Lloyd George's Director of Information and Conservative MP, Buchan moved to Canada in 1935. He served as Governor General there until his death in 1940.

Douglas Hurd served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major before retiring in 1995. He is one of the Conservative Party's senior elder statesmen and an established writer of political thrillers and non-fiction works.

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