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Ursula Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps [2020] paperback SGRAP the story blows wide openJohn Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty Nine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there was vastly more to 'JB'. He wrote more than a hundred books fiction and non fiction and a thousand articles for newspapers and magazines. He was a scholar,