{"product_id":"9781025960630","title":"The Runagates Club","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwelve stories comprise John Buchan's last collection of short stories, a classic of British interwar short fiction written from 1913 to 1927.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuchan's most popular character Richard Hannay battles an ancient curse in South Africa in ‘The Green Wildebeest' and Edward Leithen tags along in an assassins' war in ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence'. The Runagates Club features First World War spy and code-cracking thrillers ‘The Loathly Opposite' and ‘Dr Lartius'; tales of supernatural possession in deepest Wales, comfortable Oxfordshire and the House of Commons, in ‘The Wind in the Portico', Fullcircle' and ‘\"Tendebant Manus\"'; and stories of survival in the far North and in Depression-era Canada with ‘Skule Skerry' and ‘Ship to Tarshish'. There is farce too, in ‘The Frying-Pan and the Fire' and ‘\"Divus\" Johnston', and the riotous journalistic romp of ‘The Last Crusade' is the last word on fake news, for all eras.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat makes \u003ci\u003eThe Runagates Club\u003c\/i\u003e special is that Buchan designed it as a showcase to bring together the best of his magazine fiction. He repurposed these stories with new beginnings, framing them as after-dinner stories told over the port in a late 1920s private gentleman's dining-club. This is interwar storytelling at its very best, with a critical introduction by Kate Macdonald, a leading authority on Buchan’s writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tradd Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48032598687985,"sku":"9781025960630","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781025960630_p0.jpg?v=1776053759","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781025960630","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}