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.
Here at The Lutterworth Press, we want to give you a free book. We have a crisp new copy of “Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome”, by Julian Lovelock, just waiting to be sent to a good home.
There’s a whole load of exciting Swallows and Amazons events coming up over the next few weeks. Starting this evening, there’s the official book launch of “Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome” by Julian Lovelock at the University of Buckingham (you can also pre-order the book from our shop). This weekend there are…
I remember reading this as a child and loving it even more than the original Swallows and Amazons, maybe because it was even more Titty’s story than the first.
‘Swallows, Amazons and Coots’ by Julian Lovelock, with a forward by Sophie Neville, is to be launched on 23rd September at The Radcliffe Centre in Buckingham.