Peter Willis, founder and president of the Nancy Blackett Trust, reflects on its 20th anniversary and the year in prospect… This new year, 2017, will not only see the 20th anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust, but it will also be 80 years since the publication of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea“, and […]
Many different editions of Arthur Ransome’s series of “Swallows and Amazons” stories have been published over the years, and we have a selection of the latest Vintage Classics and Red Fox paperbacks available from the Nancy Blackett Shop. The Vintage Classics paperback editions started being released in 2012, and feature a large, clear, easy-to-read typeface, all of Arthur […]
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 Shop at the special introductory price of £17.00 (saving 15%). In the first critical book devoted wholly to the Swallows and Amazons series, author Julian Lovelock takes a fresh […]
“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. Delving deep into Arthur Ransome’s creative process and politics, it is a companion for anyone who loves Arthur Ransome’s series of “Swallows and Amazons” books. The new book is published by the […]
Look at what turned up in the post today: the Japanese edition of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, published in two volumes. With thanks to Dr Naoya Umeda of the Department of Naval Architecture at Osaka University, and a long-time supporter of Nancy Blackett. If you’d like to help Nancy Blackett to last forever, […]
Many different editions of Arthur Ransome’s series of “Swallows and Amazons” stories have been published over the years, and we have a selection of the latest Vintage Classics and Red Fox paperbacks available from the Nancy Blackett Shop. The Vintage Classics paperback editions started being released in 2012, and feature a large, clear, easy-to-read typeface, all of Arthur […]
Today is the last day that you can enter our Vintage Children’s Classics Competition. To celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of “Secret Water” earlier this month the Nancy Blackett Trust teamed up with Vintage Books to give you another chance to win a bumper prize. If you like to have a final chance […]
Our best-seller this Christmas in the Nancy Blackett Shop has undoubtedly been Sophie Neville’s book “The Making of Swallows and Amazons” – based on her journal written when she played Titty in the 1974 film and lavishly illustrated with unofficial photographs. In fact, we ran out of stock and had to reorder. Then the parcel […]
There is still time to order your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop! Highlights this year include new books from Sophie Neville (“The Making of Swallows and Amazons”) and Julia Jones (“The Lion of Sole Bay”), the return of the Three Boats Teatowel (featuring Nancy Blackett, Peter Duck and Ragged Robin) now on unbleached […]
To celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of “Secret Water” last Friday the Nancy Blackett Trust has once again teamed up with Vintage Books to give you another chance to win a bumper prize. You could get your hands on a full set of the Arthur Ransome Vintage Children’s Classics and a year’s free […]
Today is the 75th anniversary of the publication of “Secret Water”, the eighth book in Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows and Amazons” series of children’s books. The story is set in the Walton Backwaters and is the second book to feature Nancy Blackett as the Goblin, this time in a cameo role. There have been a number of […]
We’d like to remind you the deadline for the Vintage Books competition is this week – on Friday 5th September. To celebrate the fortieth anniversary and release of the restored 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film, the Nancy Blackett Trust has teamed up with Vintage Books and Studiocanal to offer you the chance to win a […]
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