James Buchan
James Buchan 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.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2001.
Novels
- A Parish of Rich Women Whitbread Book of the Year award, Betty Trask Award
- Davy Chadwick
- Slide
- Heart's Journey in Winter Guardian Fiction Prize
- High Latitudes
- A Good Place to Die
- The Gate of Air
- ''A Street Shaken by Light''
Non-fiction
- Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money
- Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World
- Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty
- Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Book Prize
- ''John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century''