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The Picts and the Martyrs

  • Imprint: Red Fox

  • ISBN: 9780099427278

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 223g

  • RRP: £7.99

The Picts and the Martyrs

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?

  • Imprint: Red Fox

  • ISBN: 9780099427278

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 223g

  • RRP: £7.99

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

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About the Author

Arthur Ransome

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. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post. Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.

Arthur Ransome

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