Marathon reading of Swallows and Amazons at Coniston
From Cumbria Crack
A marathon reading of the classic children’s story Swallows and Amazons will be staged this summer on the shore of the lake where the tale was set.
The event, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the author, Arthur Ransome, will take place at Coniston on Sunday September 3.
A number of celebrity readers have already signed up to take part and it’s expected that the book’s 31 chapters will take around nine hours to read.
The event is being organised by Dr Chris Routledge who is head of Continuing Education, English Language and Literature, at Liverpool University, in association with the Lake District National Park and the Arthur Ransome Trust. Also supporting the reading are Stephen and Janine Sykes who live at Hill Top, Ransome’s last home in the Lake District…