Coot Club
  • Published: 7 December 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099427186
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

Coot Club

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EBook
7 Mar 2013
EBook
30 Jun 2011
Paperback
2 Apr 2013
Paperback
7 Dec 2001
Hardback
1 Oct 1989
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A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month.

Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. Tom accepts an invitation for a week's cruise to teach his new friends, Dick and Dorothea how to sail. You couldn't get a better sailor than Tom but can he really stay one jump ahead of his pursuers long enough to complete the voyage?
  • Published: 7 December 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099427186
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99
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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.

Also by Arthur Ransome

We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
Swallows and Amazons
Great Northern?
Swallowdale
Secret Water
Missee Lee
The Picts and the Martyrs
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Praise for Coot Club

There is no better companion to a Norfolk Broads holiday than Arthur Ransome's Coot Club . . . A gripping, down-to-earth tale

Carousel

There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating

Times Literary Supplement

This exciting story of the Norfolk Broads is definitely the best Mr Ransome has written

Daily Mail