Ransome's

If Christmas makes you long for a more innocent, tranquil age, then head to the Vaudeville Theatre, where there's a new musical version of Arthur Ransome's classic Swallows And Amazons by the Bristol Old Vic.

This week's new theatre and dance 2011

Discovered after childhood, but still beloved, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons books.

MIND MELD: Members of Book View Cafe Reveal Their Favorite Books 2009

What is most striking now about Arthur Ransome's 1930s classic is how conformist the children are.

Swallows and Amazons – review 2012

He laughs: the punchline is that he has written a musical version of Ransome's book, which will be directed by Tom Morris at Bristol's Old Vic this autumn, after three years in development.

Neil Hannon: 'I was born old. I was an old man trapped in a young man's body' 2010

(I'd throw in Arthur Ransome's Swallows & Amazons books, dating from the 1920's, but by no stretch of the imagination could I fit them into the Fantasy or SF categories ...)

MIND MELD: Young Adult SF/F Books That Adults Will Like, Too 2008

Both pics are, of course, but I read Arthur Ransome's 'Coot Club' last year, having picked up a copy for 50p at a book sale in Highgate Village.

Fifty Not Out Peter Ashley 2008

The covers I remember are the 1970s Puffin reprints which, I'm pretty sure, had covers based on Ransome's original illustrations.

Arthur Ransome's Swallows & Amazons Steve 2009

Dr. Isobel Murray, a Wilde expert at Scotland's University of Aberdeen, says Ransome's "daft argument became the accepted version."

The Importance Of Being Wilde 2008

To Ransome's credit, he didn't ask why Eagan wanted to find the old priest.

Weightlifting for Catholics 2005

To Ransome's credit, he didn't ask why Eagan wanted to find the old priest.

Weightlifting for Catholics 2005