The Picts and the Martyrs Arthur Ransome

Name: The Picts and the Martyrs By Arthur Ransome
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The Picts and the Martyrs by Arthur Ransome

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SeriesSwallows And Amazons

Summary

The dreaded Great Aunt has invited herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends Dick and Dorothea arrive for the Summer holiday.

The Picts and the Martyrs Summary

The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All by Arthur Ransome

The dreaded Great Aunt has invited herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy just as their friends Dick and Dorothea arrive for the Summer holiday. Nancy and Peggy have to become Martyrs, wearing dresses and reading poetry (but breaking out at night), while Dick and Dorothea become Picts, secret inhabitants of the country who must never let themselves be seen. It's a desperate gamble to keep everyone out of trouble - but can it possibly work against the eagle eyes of the fearsome Great Aunt?

The Picts and the Martyrs Reviews

Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written * Times Literary Supplement *
Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure * Glasgow Herald *
Stands out in triumph * Times Literary Supplement *

About Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in l884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in l917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in l929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.

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GOR001662766

ISBN 13

9780099427278

ISBN 10

0099427273

Title

The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All by Arthur Ransome

Author

Arthur Ransome

Series

Swallows And Amazons

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Random House Children's UK

Year published

20010906

Number of pages

320

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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