When someone mentions Swallows and Amazons, there’s a good chance that your mind wanders off to the brooding peaks and glassy waters of the Lake District. Though the Swallows and the Amazons did spend many a happy hour in Cumbria, their other novels see them sallying forth into the uncharted waters of Norfolk and Suffolk.
A family film full of wholesome outdoors fun will provide a real adventure at the Electric Palace, Bridport, on October 21. Swallows and Amazons will be screened at 7pm and will be followed by a Q&A session with the film’s Supervising Art Director …
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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On Friday 23rd September, the Lutterworth team set sail for an Arthur Ransome adventure, featuring author Julian Lovelock, High Sheriff of Buckingham, Millie Soames and the original Titty Walker- best known as Sophie Neville- at the helm!
Recently I saw the new film of Swallows and Amazons, but before a review a few comments about the difficulty of the task. Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons must be a hard book to convert into a film…
WHEN I was a child, the classic tale Swallows And Amazons made me dream of disappearing into the wilds with nothing but a boat, a tent and a big pointy stick.
Having journeyed through another Olympic cycle, I’m reminded of the power of the quest narrative within our stories. There is a counter-point narrative, but it is being ignored, so I want to argue for stories about “Doing Nothing”…
Nancy Blackett and three other vessels were recently involved in returning a 21ft yacht to a mooring after it was found drifting in mid-channel on the River Orwell near Levington. Nancy Blackett was…
“Swallows And Amazons” was the first book my dad gave me to read and I read the whole series about children having adventures in boats.