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A companion to the places, people and boats in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons stories [Originally published Jonathan Cape 1984, a new edition will be published in September 2006 by Frances Lincoln. Link to Frances Lincoln. Preface to Captain Flint's Trunk This book played a seminal part in the formation of The Arthur Ransome Society.
I edited the Society's journal Mixed Moss for several years, and was co-publisher of the first ten books in the Amazon Publications series.
US Atlantic Monthly 1988. Originally published 1987 in the UK by Heinemann as The Canary-Coloured Cart, and serialised in the London Evening Standard in 1985], this book is just about to be published in Japanese. It is the story of a journey around Europe with my four children in search of the settings of such classic children’s stories as Pinocchio, Babar, Heidi, Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales. Review in the New York Times.
An exploration of places in England and Wales with literary connections. Themes include Arthurian sites, Jane Austen landscapes, literary salons in great and small country houses, Hardy’s Wessex, the literary associations of the Lake District, the homes of the Bloomsbury Group in Sussex and Cornwall, and the settings of thrillers and detective novels. Link to Review.
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