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[tree_and_leaf]

Name one character from any fandom I know and I will give you three facts about them from my personal canon.

Fandoms: Harry Potter, Doctor Who (though I reserve the right to do someone else here; I don't know canon well enough for Doctors 5-8 to be confident of being able to do their companions): I'd also be keen to have a crack at: Star Treks TOS and DS9, Dalziel and Pascoe (book canon only, obviously), Life on Mars, Patrick O'Brian, Swallows and Amazons, Narnia, and John Buchan's Richard Hannay-verse.

ETA: and the Wimsey-verse, of course!

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Oh, and Buchan

[tree_and_leaf]

If you specifically mean the Hannay-centric ones, I'd start at the beginning with the Thirty-Nine Steps. Actually Greenmantle (the second) is a better book, and Mr Standfast better yet, but it's worth reading them in order, I think.

If you just want to try Buchan, I'd recommend 'The Dancing Floor' (which is one of the ones with a more supernatural element) or 'The Courts of the Morning' (involving a revolution in South America), or, from the historicals, "The Free Fishers", or "Witchwood" (probably his best book). He was also a very good short story writer - there are some good anthologies. "John MacNab" is tremendous fun, too... sorry, this isn't very helpful, is it?

I have had this plot bunny for ages about a Hannay-Wimsey crossover, set in WWI (and involving the incident where Peter walks into a German staff room in disguise), but I'm having great difficulty getting the dates to work.

Thank you

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

For an entirely non-fanfic related reason, I need to read early C20 adventure novels about spies and conspiracies, preferably set in picturesque parts of the UK. I shall begin at the beginning.

Dates can always be squeezed a bit if necesssary - it's not as if the original authors don't sometimes do it themselves.