TARS Stall

The TARS Stall has been taken over by new management. A list of merchandise, copied from Signals, is below the PayPal instructions. To purchase, please contact tarsstall@arthur-ransome.org

Payment Methods

https://payment.arthur-ransome.org

  • For PayPal: Enter price in pounds sterling with decimals, e.g. 5.00 (not £5).
  • Remember to click on “update”
  • After entering description and price. Please quote your membership number if possible.
  • At any stage, you can amend or cancel the payment.

Please also email the treasurer and membership secretary or treasurer and stall manager to notify them of the payment.

TARS Stall

Postage and payment

UK postage, in brackets, for individual items.

For multiple items, or overseas costs, please ask, by SAE, telephone OR e-mail to:
Christine Rae, The Manor House, Church Lane, Houghton, STOCKBRIDGE, Hampshire SO20 6LJ
tel: +44 (0)1794 388897 (preferably 6-8pm)
e-mail: tarsstall@arthur-ransome.org.

Payment may be made by PayPal to: tarsstall@arthur-ransome.org or by cheque payable to: TARS Stall. BACS payment details – see above.

Publications from TARS

  • Transcripts from the Literary Weekends, £6 (+ £2.30).  Report and talks from the latest biennial event and previous events (1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017).
  • Encountering the Ransomes: Personal Memories of Arthur & Evgenia 2-DVD set £20 (+ £2.00) Presented by Sophie Neville, recorded interviews with 20 individuals, filmed 1996-2010.
  • Mixed Moss: The Journal of The Arthur Ransome Society £4 (+ £1.50) The Society’s literary journal, published annually. Most previous issues available.

Books about Arthur Ransome

  • The Life of Arthur Ransome, by Hugh Brogan £12 (+ £3.50) The definitive biography.
  • Good Little Ship: Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the Goblin, by Peter Willis. £14 (+ £3.50) The story of Nancy Blackett, inspiration for Goblin in AR’s WDMTGTS, and her restoration by Mike Rines and the Nancy Blackett Trust.
  • Swallows, Amazons and Coots, a reading of Arthur Ransome by Julian Lovelock £17 ( + £2.30). A literary overview of all ‘the 12’ by the present editor of Mixed Moss.
  • Arthur Ransome Afloat in Lakeland, by W. R. Mitchell £10 (+ £1.80). Attractively
    illustrated account of AR’s haunts by a local author.
  • Arthur Ransome, a Bibliography, by Wayne Hammond £20 (+ £3.50). A comprehensive
    guide detailing all titles Arthur Ransome wrote and to which he contributed, plus more than 1500 contributions to newspapers and magazines.
  • Ransome in Russia, by Ted Alexander & Tatiana Verizhnikova £18 (+ £3.50). Describes Arthur Ransome’s adventures in Eastern Europe from 1913 to 1924, by long-time TARS member Ted Alexander.
  • Arthur Ransome’s Family 1649-1975, by Judy Andrews £5 (+ £2.30). Information on
    Arthur Ransome’s family and ancestors; with lots of previously unseen illustrations.
  • Arthur Ransome on the Broads, by Roger Wardale £15 (+ £3.50). Beautifully illustrated and draws on diary entries from the Ransomes’ Broads trips, linked to the relevant books.
  • Where it All Began: The Origins of Swallows and Amazons, by Pauline Marshall £3 (+ £1.50).  Memoir of a Coniston girl who knew Arthur Ransome and was a possible ‘Peggy’.
  • The Ransoming, by Pauline Marshall £3 (+ £1.50). The 1920s and 30s for the children living at Bank Ground Farm in a mix of fact and fiction.
  • The Making of Swallows and Amazons, by Sophie Neville £13 (+ £3.50). TARS past-President, Sophie played Titty in the 1974 film – a behind-the-scenes account of its production.
  • Walton’s Secret Water DVD £15 (+ £2.00). Film by David Webb, featuring the Walton Backwaters of Secret Water country, in the 80th year of its publication.

Books by Arthur Ransome

  • Old Peter’s Russian Tales £7 (+ £3.50). Introduction by Christina Hardyment, with illustrations by Faith Jaques. £7 (+ £3)
  • Racundra’s First Cruise £7 (+ £3.50). How Arthur Ransome built and sailed Racundra in the Baltic, re-edited by Brian Hammett, with additional research, letters and photographs.
  • Racundra’s Third Cruise £5 (+ £3.00). Previously unpublished account of Arthur
    Ransome’s honeymoon cruise in Latvia in 1924, edited by Brian Hammett.
  • Set of ‘the twelve’ S&A books £75 (+ £17.50). Vintage Classics paperback edition – individual copies £7 each (+ £3.50)
  • Audio CDs of ‘the twelve’ S&A books ead by Gabriel Woolf, £14 ( + £3.50) each. All 12 titles currently available.
  • Swallows and Amazons, the stage musical, adapted by Helen Edmundson, with songs by Neil Hannon £9 (+ £2). The script and songs for the Bristol Old Vic production, recently revived.
  • see also books in bold in Amazon Publications section (below)

Books by and about Ransome from Amazon Publications

Books in bold are either edited collections of AR’s work or by him.

  • NEW Sunlight andShadows:  Arthur Ransome’s Hidden Narratives by Mike Bender £14 (+£3.50).  A challenging and groundbreaking reinterpretation of Ransome and his writings.
  • The Twilight Years, Vol II – London ed. Margaret Ratcliffe £20 (+ £3.50).  Ransome’s diary at Hurlingham Court, 1950-1963 with introduction by Griff Rhys-Jones.
  • The Twilight Years, Vol I – Hill Top, ed. Margaret Ratcliffe £15 (+ £3.50). Ransome’s diary entries at Hill Top, 1956 to 1964.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Ransome’s Long-lost Study, edited by Kirsty Nichol Findlay £8.50 (+ £3.50). The first published edition of his critical study, written nearly a century ago and lost until 1990. Special paperback edition for TARS.
  • Ransome the Artist, by Roger Wardale £5 (+ £3.50). Sketches, illustrations and paintingsby Arthur Ransome.
  • Ransome on Blue Water Sailing, ed Christina Hardyment £5 (+ £3.50). Mariners’ Library introductions and book reviews about sailing.
  • A Ransome Book-case, by John Cowen £10 (+ £3) A personal guide to Arthur Ransome’s books with pictures and detailed text.
  • Bohemia in London, by Arthur Ransome £7.50 (+ £3.50). AR’s ‘first real book’ in a new edition with the original 1907 Fred Taylor illustrations.
  • From our Special Correspondent – the Journalism of Arthur Ransome in Egypt, by Nancy M Endersby-Harshman £25 (+ £3.50).  Egypt and the Sudan in the 1920s and ‘30s, based on his reports in the Manchester Guardian.
  • Ransome in China, 1927, special correspondent to the Manchester Guardian and
    the Baltimore Sun    , by David Jones £7.50 (+ £3.50).  AR at the height of his career as a political journalist.
  • Arthur Ransome: a Bodley Head Monograph, Hugh Shelley £2 (+ £1.80)
  • Before a Peak in Darien, ed Paul Crisp £7.50 (+ £3.50). From Arthur Ransome’s early writings
  • Fair Cops and Glowworms, ed Paul Crisp £10 (+ £3.50). An anthology of AR’sfishing articles not previously published in book form, with an essay on other writers on fishing known to AR.
  • Genetic Building Blocks, the forebears of Arthur Ransome, by Margaret Ratcliffe
    £8.50 (+ £2.30) [paperback] / £10 (+ £3.50).  An insight into his family through written works, private correspondence and manuscripts, many published here for the first time.
  • Collecting our Thoughts, ed. Margaret Ratcliffe £15 (+ £3.50) [paperback]. Introductory features from the TARS Library catalogues, 2000-2009, and new essays on related themes.

Fiction inspired by Arthur Ransome

  • The Strong Winds series by Julia Jones Contemporary teenage thrillers set in East Anglia, with a strong sailing element.

Vol. 1: The Salt-Stained Book
Vol. 2: A Ravelled Flag
Vol. 3: Ghosting Home
Vol. 4: The Lion of Sole Bay
Vol. 5: Black Waters
£6 each (+ £2.10) / Set of five: £25 (+ £3.50)

NEW Vol.6: Pebble £9 (£2.30)

  • Those … kids series by Jon Tucker.  A new series of Tasmanian adventure stories for children by a TARS member and live-aboard sailor.

Those Snake Island Kids, Jon Tucker
Those Eco-Pirate Kids, Jon Tucker,
each £10 (+ £1.80)

  • The Boat in the Bay, Alan Kennedy £10 (+ £2.00) Ransome-referenced adventure story

Other Items

  • TARS Teddy £10 (+ £3.50).  Need a mascot? Here he/she is! Companionable soft toy, 24cm high, sitting.
  • Burgees £18 (+ £2.50). Polyester burgees, 50x30cm, including halyard and toggle. Three designs: -Swallows and Amazons logo, skull and crossbones, or Swallow alone.
  • Car sticker £2 (+ $1.20p). yellow background with TARS logo, approx. 16 x 6 cm.
  • Enamel TARS pin badge £3 (+ £1.50). An enamel TARS pin badge in shape and design of TARS Burgee, approx. 2 x 3 cm.
  • Adult T-Shirts £22 (+ £3.50).
    Unisex, light blue or maroon. Ladies, mint green or white
    Medium Width 21in, Length 28in Small Width 16.5in Length 24in
    Large Width 22in, Length 30in Medium Width 19in Length 25in
    X Large Width 23in Length 31in
    XX Large Width 24in Length 32in
  • Polo Shirts £20 (+ £3.50).
    Unisex, light blue or maroon. Ladies, light blue or pink
    Medium Width 21in, Length 28in Small Width 16.5in Length 22in
    Large Width 22in, Length 30in Medium Width 18in Length 26.5in
    X Large Width 23in Length 32in
    XX Large Width 26in Length 33in
  • Sweat Shirts £22 (+ £3.50).
    Unisex, maroon.
    Medium Width 23in, Length 27in
    Large Width 24.5in, Length 28.5in
    X Large Width 23in Length 32in
  • Children’s T-Shirts £10 (+ £3.50).
    ‘TARS AHOY!’ logo. Mid blue or lime green.
    7-8 yrs Width 17.5in, Length 23in
    9-11 yrs Width 18.5in, Length 24in
    11-13 yrs Width 19.5in Length 26in