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About Arthur Ransome

Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author, intelligence agent, and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The entire series remains in print, and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.

He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected by MI5 of being a Soviet spy.

Arthur Ransome writes about Tuberculosis, Prevention, Epidemiology, Diseases, Transmission, and Public health. Their best-known work is The present position of state medicine in England.

On FindMyTBR we track 20 books by Arthur Ransome, 19 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Child's Book Of The Garden: The Things In Our Garden (Unabridged), A Child's Book Of The Seasons (Unabridged), and A Childs Book of the Garden (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.