We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (Ransome Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?'The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour is bursting with bobbing yachts, barges and steamers, this year there's no chance of any sailing for the landlocked

We Didn't Mean To, Honest (Swindells Robert)(Paperback / softback)

WE DIDN'T MEAN TO, HONEST 'The Outfit ' # 2 in the seriesMiserable Rueben Kilchaffinch is going to fill in Froglet pond, and he won't let anything, or anyone, get in his way. The Outfit are desperate to save the pond and its wildlife and they plan to stop Kilchaffinch at any cost 'How can four

Great Northern? (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Flat on his front, binoculars to his eyes, alone at dusk, Dick makes a remarkable discovery: two rare birds, never before seen in the British

Secret Water (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

'You'll start with a blank map, that doesn't do more than show roughly what's water and what isn't'When the Walker family's holiday plans are ruined by Daddy having to work, the whole summer seems lost at

Slash: The Autobiography (Slash)(Paperback / softback)

It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't

Arthur Ransome on the Broads (Wardale Roger)(Paperback)

In Arthur Ransome on the Broads Roger Wardale tells the inside story of the two classic children's novels, Coot Club and The Big Six, that stemmed from the eight holidays that Ransome and his wife spent cruising in hired craft on the Norfolk Broads in the 1930s. Drawing freely upon Ransome's

Big Six (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the

Swallowdale (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Then they discover a wonderful hidden valley and things take a turn for the better... BACKSTORY: Discover the real Swallowdale, swot up on seafaring and learn all about the adventurous

Social Warming - The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media (Arthur Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement'. In so doing,

Pigeon Post (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold mine of the high hills above the lake. Worst of all is the sinister Squashy Hat, who appears to be a rival prospector and who's certainly a spy - how can they keep working

Missee Lee (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint don't pay much heed to the harbourmaster's friendly warning as they set off for China. They are on a round-the-world voyage aboard the Wild Cat and it's been plain sailing for a hundred ports. But when Gibber, the ship's monkey, accidentally sinks their

Swallows And Amazons (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

For the Walker children, sailing the boat Swallow to an island for a camping trip is a fantastic adventure. But soon they find themselves under attack from the fierce pirates of the Amazon, Nancy and Peggy. And so begins the battles, alliances and discoveries in a summer like no

Swallows And Amazons (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping

Coot Club (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to sail. They couldn't hope for a better teacher than Tom Dudgeon. But Tom is in a spot of trouble. After seeing the beastly Margoletta moored clean across the nests of his beloved coots, Tom set the motorcruiser

Peter Duck (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when their hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days - a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky

Missee Lee (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them

Winter Holiday (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea - 'the D's' - plan a race to find the North Pole. Can the Swallows and Amazons save their friends? BACKSTORY: Crack the Swallows and Amazons' code and learn all about the real Arctic exploration that

Crying Book (Christle Heather)(Paperback / softback)

Why do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? A scientific, cultural, artistic examination by a young poet on the cusp of

Picts and the Martyrs - or Not Welcome At All (Ransome Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons' dreadful Great Aunt invites herself to stay too, the summer is threatened with dullness. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what anyone had in mind. To save the Ds

In Search of Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome's Lakeland (Wardale Roger)(Paperback / softback)

Illustrated with maps, sketches and more than fifty photographs, this book uncovers the secret locations featured in Arthur Ransome's original 'Swallows & Amazons' adventures. It contains numerous quotations from Arthur Ransome, which support both text and

Dragonfire (Forbes Anne)(Paperback)

Well, I didn't ask to be a pigeon . . . I wanted to be an eagle, didn't I? . . . Why couldn't we have been eagles instead of pigeons? What a life Nothing but cooo, cooo and peck, peck, all the time. . . . This is the High Street not the Highlands We're no here to cause a sensation, and . . . if

Here We Go (Hart Simon)(Paperback / softback)

For Everton FC, the 1980s were the most successful decade in the club's history. In Here We Go, Simon Hart interviews some of the Blues' best-loved players from that era - along with the most controversial and the unsung heroes too - to provide a vivid, colourful portrait of a period when a group

I Go by Sea, I Go by Land (Travers P. L.)(Paperback)

'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all . . . Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from

Tales of the Peculiar (Riggs Ransom)(Paperback / softback)