John Buchan was an historian, a politician and writer of thrillers. His best known novel is “The Thirty-Nine Steps”, which has been filmed many times. However, his historical novels always showed him at his best.

Midwinter is among my favorite John Buchan novels. Here’s a great spiritual quotation from it:

“I am wholly content, for my calling is philosophy. I stand aside in life, and strike no blows and make no bargain, but I learn that which is hid from others.”

Midwinter, John Buchan.