23%
off
off
The Picts and the Martyrs : or Not Welcome At All
Free delivery worldwide
Available. Dispatched from the UK in 1 business day
When will my order arrive?
Not expected to be delivered to the United States by Christmas
Description
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?
show more
show more
Product details
- 9+
- Paperback | 320 pages
- 129 x 198 x 20mm | 224g
- 01 Oct 2001
- Random House Children's Publishers UK
- RED FOX
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 0
- 0099427273
- 9780099427278
- 81,701
Review Text
"Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written"
show more
show more
Review quote
"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 *
show more
show more
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.
show more
show more
