'Well,' said Nancy, 'You know what it's like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter...

John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and...

John, Susan, Titty and Roger, the crew of the Swallow, take on the job of mapping the mass of small islands round Pin Mill while...

Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold...

'I was wrong,' said Captain Flint. 'He's not mad but bad. It isn't only eggs he wants. He wants to take the credit for it. You're...

Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and...

Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued...

It's great detective work that's needed now. Bill, Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river...

'Now Susan,' Mother said, 'And you too, John. No night sailing. No going outside the harbour. And back the day after tomorrow....

The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. Newly re-issued using Ransome's original illustrations...

A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month

The Swallows and Amazons...