I hope film festival sends kids on a thrilling new adventure
As one of Scotland’s most acclaimed screenwriters, she helped create one of the biggest family films of 2016 with the Swallows and Amazons remake.
Author: Swallows and Amazons
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The Homing Stone Comes to Exeter in December
It is autumn 1919. Moscow is surrounded by counter-revolutionaries. Arthur Ransome is known to be a Bolshevik sympathiser. He’s fallen in love with Trotsky’s secretary. They both know they’ll be lynched or shot if Moscow falls. Somehow they must escape. On Ransome’s desk is a stone from Peel Island on Coniston Water. Is it a powerful enough talisman to get him home?
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Everything you need to know about the Bath Film Festival 2016
Bath Film Festival expects to become the first in the UK, and possibly the world, to give equal attention to male and female filmmakers when it presents its 26th annual programme of new and classic cinema screenings and related events at venues across the city from November 3 to 13…
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“An A-Z of Cumbria and The Lake District on Film” has just been launched
“An A-Z of Cumbria and The Lake District on Film” has just been launched by Hayloft Publishing, written by David Banning with a forward by Sophie Neville.
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British Independent Film Awards 2016: The Debut Directors Long List
From the Hollywood Reporter The British Independent Film Awards – the BIFAs to those in the know – is set to unveil its official nominations on Nov. 1 ahead of the Dec 4. ceremony in London. To celebrate the addition of several new categories aimed at highlighting new and emerging names, The Hollywood Reporter has teamed…
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Unearthing the true story behind former British spy and treasured children’s author Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome’s tales of boats and adventure – many of which were set in Suffolk – changed the course of children’s literature. But, says Julian Lovelock, who has written a book about Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series, the author was a complex character whose novels were inextricably bound up with the times he lived through and the sadnesses of his own life.
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Nancy Blackett’s Last Sail of the Season
We had planned on a local area cruise before entering the River Deben, but, with several days of strong easterlies, we were left banking on a possible short break in the weather on the morning of the planned laying-up day, Saturday 15th October…
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Save 15% on “Swallows, Amazons and Coots” for One Only More Week
Following a successful book launch last week, the highly anticipated “Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome” is published today, and available from the Nancy Blackett…
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Photo: Nancy Blackett after her season’s end
Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett is seen here at rest last week in brilliant Autumn sunshine at Woodbridge, Suffolk, following the Nancy Blackett Trust’s end-of-season lift-out and social dinner.