James Buchan

1954–

James Buchan is a Scottish novelist and historian, born in 1954, a son of the third Baron Tweedsmuir and grandson of the novelist John Buchan. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. His first novel, A Parish of Rich Women, received a Betty Trask Award in 1984 and won a Whitbread award. Heart’s Journey in Winter won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and his non-fiction includes Frozen Desire and a study of Adam Smith. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2001 and lives in Norfolk.

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