Forthcoming film version of Swallows and Amazons will rename the character Tatty to avoid innuendo, but publisher insists she’ll stay Titty in books Titty might be turning into Tatty in the BBC’s ...

The author of Goodnight Mister Tom and Impossible! explains why the Swallows and Amazons creator Arthur Ransome gave her an alternative childhood and the tools to escape, pulling her into a world ...

Arthur Ransome wrote We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea while living on the Orwell estuary at Pin Mill Well-known names will read an Arthur Ransome sailing novel in one go at the setting where it was written ...

Fact is certainly stranger than fiction in the secret life of Arthur Ransome, one of Britain’s best-loved writers of children’s books. To his relatives, Ransome was the kindly, quiet old man whose ...

Best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of lighthearted adventures for children, penned in the 1930s and ’40s, Arthur Ransome is thought by many to have been a mild-mannered Englishman who ...

It is a well-known tale of high adventure for four children in the 1930s who set off in their sail boat one summer to reach an uninhabited island in the middle of Coniston Water, in the English Lake ...

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His innocent tales of adventure under sail and canvas in the Lake District have established Arthur Ransome as a cherished master of children's literature. But a new biography of the Swallows and ...

English Heritage said the author is largely associated with the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the major issues affecting British ...