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James Buchan

James Buchan is the author of seven novels, including A Parish of Rich Women which won The Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Betty Trask Award in 1984. He is also the author of six works of non-fiction, including Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Liberty, Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences and John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century.

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Fiction | The Online Edition padlock

This is Centerville

James Buchan

‘In the imagination of strangers there is a small town in America which represents not just itself but the whole country‘.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Trident

James Buchan

‘As many as thirty-five states in the world are thought to have the capacity (if not the wish) to build a nuclear weapon.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 67 padlock

Inside Iraq

James Buchan

‘My first sight of modern Iraq was a colossal fairy-lit head of Saddam Hussein hurtling out of the darkness, as if from another galaxy of despotism and violence.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 57 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 57 padlock

Kashmir

James Buchan

‘I see in an instant what has brought people to the valley for four centuries.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 57 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 57 padlock

The Psychology of Money

James Buchan

’In my inferno of solitude, I thought there must be some reason why I was doing what I was doing.‘

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