Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian.
After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.
Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.
News and Blog
We've got some very exciting news! Vintage Classics has announced the launch of a new collection – Vintage Children's Classics – aimed at and shaped by 8 to 12 year olds and the adults in their lives. It will be a beautiful and affordable series of books intended to inspire and nurture a life-long love of reading. A launch-list of twenty-one books will be published...
Books by Arthur Ransome
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Coot Club
by Arthur RansomePublished: 02/04/2013
'I read the entire series of Arthur Ransome's children's books as a child and thought they were absolutely fantastic. They were full of adventure, all sorts of exciting things happened and they were truly inspirational' Ellen MacArthur
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Pigeon Post
by Arthur RansomePublished: 02/04/2013
WINNER OF THE FIRST EVER CARNEGIE MEDAL IN 1936.
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Peter Duck
by Arthur RansomePublished: 03/09/2012
The third thrilling tale in the much-loved Swallows and Amazons series
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Winter Holiday
by Arthur RansomePublished: 03/09/2012
Winter holidays can be just as fun as summer with the Swallows and Amazons!
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Swallowdale
by Arthur RansomePublished: 01/08/2012
'The world that the children enter as soon as they get off the train in the Lake District is as separate from their everyday world as Hogwarts or Narnia... For most readers, the idea of cooking trout you have caught yourself is as strange and poetic as the idea of casting a spell that turns a teacup into a turtle' Guardian
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Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur RansomePublished: 01/08/2012
'I read the entire series of Arthur Ransome's children's books as a child and thought they were absolutely fantastic. They were full of adventure, all sorts of exciting things happened and they were truly inspirational' Ellen MacArthur
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Great Northern?
by Arthur RansomePublished: 04/01/2002
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
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Missee Lee
by Arthur RansomePublished: 04/01/2002
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
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Secret Water
by Arthur RansomePublished: 04/01/2002
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
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Swallows And Amazons
by Arthur RansomePublished: 04/01/2002
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
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The Big Six
by Arthur RansomePublished: 04/01/2002
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
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The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All
by Arthur RansomePublished: 04/01/2002
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
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Coot Club
by Arthur RansomePublished: 07/12/2001
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month.
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Peter Duck
by Arthur RansomePublished: 07/12/2001
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
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Pigeon Post
by Arthur RansomePublished: 07/12/2001
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
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Swallowdale
by Arthur RansomePublished: 07/12/2001
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month.
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We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
by Arthur RansomePublished: 07/12/2001
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
