The audiobook of Swallows and Armenians is now available for free from Audible. Swallows and Armenians is Karen Babayan’s story of the Anglo-Armenian Altounyan family who inspired Arthur Ransome to write his first book of fiction for children, Swallows and Amazons, which has gone on to be a classic of Lake District mythology. The short […]
A Happy New Year from the Nancy Blackett Trust – with two bits of good news: Despite Royal Mail increasing its postal rates from January 1st, we are keeping our UK postage-and-packaging rates at the same levels. We’re also extending our offer of a free gift with every copy of Good Little Ship: Arthur Ransome, […]
Sophie Neville recently talked to Books at Lunchtime about all things Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome and living the life of the book. You can watch the 35-minute video below… Books at Lunchtime is a series of online lunchtime book discussions with special guests by Ketts Books, a community bookshop in Wymondham, Norfolk. Sophie Neville […]
Bidding is well under way for a hardback first edition copy of The Secrets of Filming Swallows and Amazons (1974), signed for you by the author Sophie Neville, and brought to your door or PO Box by Royal Mail (UK delivery is paid for). All money from the winning bid will be sent as a […]
Sophie Neville asks readers to write in with any points that they may notice that she can add to a third edition of her e-book The Secrets of Filming Swallows and Amazons (1974)… Viewers of the original Swallows and Amazons film have written to point out that when the Amazons sailed up to Captain Flint’s […]
Swallows & Amazons (1974) starring Virginia McKenna is to be broadcast on BBC 2 at 12.20 on Sunday 30th August 2020, recalling the adventures of the Walker and Blackett families on a “Lake in the North” in August 1929 before the school term began, writes Sophie Neville. Hailed as “the feel-good film of Lockdown”, it […]
The original film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows and Amazons” returns to the BBC this Sunday 30th August . The 1974 film will be available to watch here on iPlayer for 30 days, following a repeat broadcast on BBC2 at 12:20pm. The behind-the-scenes story of the film is told in the book “The Making of […]
Those kids are back – all of them plus two new Maori friends – for a new environmentally-aware and Ransome-inspired adventure that starts when they discover a wounded seal. In Those Seal Rock Kids, his fifth book in this Ransome-influenced series, Jon Tucker deftly marshals the original kids – Jess, Jake and Fin, plus friends […]
Work has finally started on the restoration of Shotley Pier, with the removal of unsightly concrete slabs at the shoreward end, and their replacement with reclaimed timber. The work began on 17th June, having been delayed from March by the national coronavirus emergency. The project is being carried out by Amicus Civil Engineering. A central […]
This weekend (June 19-21) was to have seen a triple event for the Nancy Blackett Trust: the first Brian Hammett Memorial Talk, our AGM and an open day aboard Nancy Blackett as part of the Suffolk Day celebrations. The first two have been postponed, hopefully to take place in September, and we hope to join […]
You can now catch up with the recent online marathon reading of Arthur Ransome’s The Picts and the Martyrs, the fourth marathon reading from the Swallows and Amazons series to have taken place in the past four years. The event was organised by writer and lecturer Chris Routledge, who was also behind the live readings […]
Here are 7 Swallows and Amazons home-schooling ideas from Sophie Neville (who played Titty Walker in the 1974 film) for children aged 8-15 educating at home… 1. Find a copy of the Blu-ray of Swallows and Amazons in French – Hirondelle et Amazones – and see if it helps you pick up the language. You could […]
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