SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS audiobooks

JUNE UPDATE - STOP PRESS! JIB-BOOMS AND BOBSTAYS, WE'VE DONE IT !

With Secret Water, Missee Lee & The Picts and the Martyrs, all twelve of Arthur Ransome's incomparable Swallows and Amazons series are now on CD.

The covers are sumptuous, the booklet informative, and the CD's guarantee eternal youth to all who once enjoy them. Oh, yes, and children still love them too.

In spite of recent rises in postal charges, the prices remain the same, £13.50: the same as they have been, indeed, since 1996, when it all began. Could this too be a record ( though not a CD)? My grateful thanks to all who have helped make this unlikely venture so much fun. (For more information see audio page)

The following titles are also available in 5 CD sets: (And equally handsome they look.)

Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Peter Duck, Winter Holiday & Great Northern? The Big Six, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (four discs), Pigeon Post (four discs) and Coot Club.

I have, seems amazing to me, finished the project (of recording the whole of the Swallows and Amazons series), after twelve years, and am now gradually adding to the cassette version by bringing them out on CD.

A Note for the USA
Those nice Americans who are driven to this website might like to know that I send a single title for $30 at present including shipping (practically at cost) as a return for a delightful web-review from a lady with seven children (I think I counted right) who thus sends so many others to enquire. Mind you, you have to be a Nice American. The crunch being converting your dollar checks (sic) into Sterling, the more titles you buy, the Nicer you will seem. But one title is alright.

Other News

In preparation. Soon to be available
A single CD version of Shoulder the Sky, the Seventy Springs of A E Housman (at £10 including UK postage), for the 150th anniversary of his birth.

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Those who remember Dr Who and Pyramids of Mars, where my evil character of Sutekh was born, may like to know that Lawrence Miles has written more scripts which allow me to play Sutekh in a series of CD's called Faction Paradox. There is : "Coming to Dust," " The Ship of a Billion Years" "Body Politic" - and now number Four: 'Words from Nine Divinities' is out.

Both are produced by Magic Bullet and can be obtained from shops now.

In addition, as something completely different, last autumn I was called back to the televised world of Doctor Who to give my vocal interpretation of Satan, aka The Beast, in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, with David Tennant as my enemy. As I did everything in a recording booth, alone, I was tempted to write to David and say what a pleasure it had been not working with him. I’m sure I’d have been too nervous had the stars been there !

* NEW 5-CD BOXSETS *
Swallowdale
Winter Holiday
Peter Duck
Swallows and Amazons
Great Northern?
Coot Club
The Big Six

* NEW 4-CD BOXSETS *
We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
Pigeon Post

AVAILABLE AUDIOBOOKS ON CASSETTE:
Swallows and Amazons
Swallowdale
Winter Holiday
Peter Duck
Pigeon Post
We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
Coot Club
Secret Water
The Big Six
Missee Lee
The Picts & The Martyrs
* NEW Great Northern? *

The books themselves, published by Jonathan Cape (both in hardback and paperback) are available through all good bookshops

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