Jon Tuckerhas written a series five Those Kids books set in Tasmania and New Zealand that effectively bring Ransome into the 21st Century. Many authors have been inspired by Ransome:ĭuncan Hallbrought out the Brambleholme series of books for children aged 8-80 set in the Yorkshire Dales.

My own children, who never actually read it, were huge fans of the film”. In The Boyhood of Grace Jones by Jane Langton, an American book from 1972, the main character is obsessed by the books, and fantasizes about being as good a sailor as John Walker.ĭanny Brocklehurst mentions Swallows and Amazons very briefly in Stone.Ĭatherine Lamont from Australia said, “Just read a 2020 book mentioning ‘Swallows and Amazons’ (someone spotted in a bookshelf belonging to one of the main characters): The Enigma Game, by Elizabeth Wein.” Elizabeth Wein wrote in to say, “Not just in The Enigma Game – I namedropped Swallows & Amazons in my novel Code Name Verity, too! It was given to me by my grandmother’s best friend when I was seven and was one of my favorites. Magnus Smith says that How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger and Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr mention Ransome’s books.

Teacher, Teacher!, by Jack Sheffield, has one of his star pupils reading Swallows and Amazons.

In Red Letter Holiday by Virginia Pye the mother of the family is reading Swallows and Amazons aloud. ‘The older sister loved Ransome’s books and compares his stories to Ontario lakeside cottage life.’ Adam Quinan explained that they are about a British sister and brother evacuated to Canada during the early days of the Second World War. Kit Pearson wrote the Guests of War trilogy ( The Sky is Falling, Looking at the Moon and The Lights Go On Again). Liz Taylorson has recently brought out a romance entitled Summer Showers at Elder Fell Farm that not only features the book Swallows and Amazons but makes quite a thing of Titty’s name. Kathryn Clare Brissenden wrote: ‘In Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher, Judith gets given the latest Arthur Ransome for Christmas.

Martin Allott spotted this, explaining, ‘It’s a gentle romance about the love lives of three female friends who set up a wedding planning business… Lindy mentions some favourite books, one of which is Old Peter’s Russian Tales.’ Katie Fforde, president of the Romantic Novelists Association, mentions Arthur Ransome in her novel A Vintage Wedding.

Brambleholme Summer by Duncan Hall