Here are the covers and titles of some of the books written or compiled by Arthur Ransome. The date refers to the first year of publication for that title, which is not necessarily the year of publication for the title edition whose cover is shown. For some books, the publisher and year of publication for the book whose cover is shown are included underneath the cover image. The list is not intended to be exhaustive, and TARS will continue to add to it from time to time. The featured items are ones which TARS has copies of in the TARS Library or access to through one or more of its members’ private collections. Some of the titles are available from the TARS Stall.
Please note that the list does not include details of the many articles he wrote while as a correspondent for the Daily News or The Manchester Guardian.
| Bohemia in London (1907) Oxford University Press, 1984 | Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1916) Jane Nissen Books, 2003 | Racundra’s First Cruise (1923) Century Publishing Co. Ltd, 1984 | The Autobiography (1976) Century Publishing Co. Ltd, 1985 |
The Swallows and Amazons series
Swallows and Amazons (1930)
Swallowdale (1931)
Peter Duck (1932)
Winter Holiday (1933)
Coot Club (1934)
Pigeon Post (1936)
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1937)
Secret Water (1939)
The Big Six (1940)
Missee Lee (1941)
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Great Northern? (1947)
The above cover images are of the hardback editions of the Swallows and Amazons series published in the U.K. by the Jonathan Cape imprint of Random House Group Ltd.
Paperback editions
Paperback editions are also available in the U.K. published by the Red Fox imprint of the Random House Group Ltd.
Foreign editions of the Swallows and Amazons series
Editions of some or all of the books have been published in America, Australia and Canada. Some or all of the twelve books in the series have been translated into the following languages:
- Chinese
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Russian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
Other books
| Pond and Stream (1906) | The Book of Friendship (1909) | Edgar Allan Poe (1910) |
| The Book of Love (1911) | Oscar Wilde (1912) | Six Weeks in Russia (1919) |
| The Crisis in Russia (1921) | Rod and Line (1929) | Mainly about Fishing (1959) |
| Coots in the North (unfinished fragment) (1988) | Blue Treacle (1993) | Racundra’s Third Cruise (2002) |
You can check the availability of these and other books at the TARS Stall.