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Books in Order: 15 titles

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  • The House of Widows

    'An epic voyage well worth taking' Telegraph'There is nothing quite like a James Buchan novel' Financial TimesAutumn, 1785. Two young boys, in the uniform of officer cadets of the Royal Military College, are standing outside the porter's gate of a ho...

  • Our Lady of the Snows

  • A Chalice Argent: A swashbuckling, epic tale of adventure: Volume 2 in The Family of William Neilson

  • A Chalice Argent

  • A Street Shaken by Light

    'An epic voyage well worth taking ... Exhilarating' Marianka Swain, TelegraphOne of Britain's outstanding historical writers delivers a romantic and picaresque masterpiece that tells the fascinating story of William Neilson. In 1720, the young Willia...

  • John Law

    At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant...

  • A Good Place to Die

  • Capital of the Mind

    This "elegant portrait of Edinburgh in the age of Enlightenment" reveals a thriving city of artists, architects, scientists, and other pioneers (Times Literary Supplement). In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a filthy backwa...

  • The Persian Bride

    Hailed as a masterpiece in Britain, this epic novel is at once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran. It is the spring of 1974, and John Pitt, a young Englishman, sets off for the hippie Eas...



  • Frozen Desire

    Novelist Buchan, a former correspondent for the Financial Times, traces the meaning of money since its beginning. He discusses money in its various formats, emphasizing that money itself is not just an object but "an outcome of a vast mountain of soc...

  • High Latitudes

    Jane Haddon is resigned to personal and professional loneliness, divorced for eight years and living during a time of great natural and man-made disasters, in a story that reveals her turbulent past, including a history of doomed romance, heroin addi...

  • The Golden Plough

    A thriller about the last major crisis of the Cold War finds American and British intelligence officers involved in romance and murder as U.S., British, German, and Russian diplomats secretly meet to contend for the fate of Europe....

  • Heart's Journey in Winter

  • A Parish of Rich Women

  • Davy Chadwick

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Books Written with a Co-Author


James Buchan; Merle Collins
A Parish of Rich Women (Aug-1998)

Award-Winning Books by James Buchan

The Golden Plough
1995 Guardian First Book Award -- First Book


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Buchan has published 15 books.

James Buchan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The House of Widows, was published in November 2025.

The first book by James Buchan, A Parish of Rich Women, was published in May 1985.

No. James Buchan does not write books in series.