In the highly anticipated lead-up to the release of Swallows, Amazons and Coots later this month, we were able to catch up with author, Julian Lovelock to hear all about his motivations, interests and upcoming projects…
A feast of selected films marks another edition of the Children Cinema Day taking place today in cinemas around Malta and Gozo…
SWALLOWS and Amazons , filmed on location in the Lake District, is proving a resounding summer-holiday hit among cinema goers young and old.
Make the most of our remaining summer days this weekend with these Swallows and Amazons events…
I think Jim Searle might have given me this lovely photograph of Titmouse, and that it might have been taken when the boys from Norfolk who played the Death and Glories were given sailing lessons prior to filming in the summer of 1983…
“I don’t want them to be frightened of the world,” Mrs Walker says of her children, as she wonders whether she was right to let the four eldest sail off in a dinghy alone to discover an island in the middle of a huge Cumbrian lake. When I wrote those words…
The adaptation enjoyed a prosperous first seven days at the UK box office as it took in $1.81m (£1.39m)…
Arthur Ransome is one of Britain’s best-loved authors of children’s books – but he hid a very dramatic secret…
THE new Swallows and Amazons film – shot in Cumbria – has taken nearly £680,000 in its first week at the box office.