The Picts and the Martyrs

or Not Welcome At All

Arthur Ransome

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Red Fox
04 January 2002

Children's & Educational; Adventure stories (Children's&YA)

Series: Swallows And Amazons

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

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?

By: Arthur Ransome
Imprint: Red Fox
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 223g
ISBN: 9780099427278
ISBN 10: 0099427273
Series: Swallows And Amazons
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 04 January 2002
Recommended Age: From 9 to 11 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , 9-11 years , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, 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 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time.

Reviews for The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All

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