No 33 / Autumn 2005

From 'Other Gods' to 'Lost Gods': the genesis of an idea, by Kenneth Hillier early draft of part of The Island of Sheep

Other Gods, by John Buchan the draft as published in a school magazine

John Buchan and Alfred Hitchcock, by Tony Williams the films and what might have been

The dreaming spires of Radinghem, by Anthony B Hope where the British Army HQ was in France

Ferris Greenslet's portrait of a friend, by Sylvia Jones Buchan's American publisher's memoirs

The 'school of Buchan': inter-war fiction in the Buchan style, by Michael Redley how Buchan influenced popular fiction between the wars.

Notes and Queries

• Unwelcome resonances (on the pulling of Greenmantle from the BBC schedules after the London bombings, July 2005)
• Broadstairs: the truth (recollections of what exactly were the thirty-nine steps)
• Declaration of war (Canada against Germany, 1939)
• Random references
• On humanism (letter from reader)
• Wrong tree (eBay's ignorance)
• Kipling and Buchan (letter from editor of the Kipling Society Journal)
• Buchan on the stage (review of The Thirty-Nine Steps at West Yorkshire Playhouse)
• Buchan on the Somme (history revised, again)