About the Author

Julian Lovelock, who first read Swallows and Amazons during his childhood holidays afloat, has enjoyed a career in education, with quarter of a century as a Headteacher. Now Pro Vice-Chancellor and Lecturer in English at the University of Buckingham, he offers a challenging reading or Arthur Ransome's seminal novels, based on a lifetime of sailing, teaching, and love of literature. His previous publications include, as editor, Casebooks on Donne's Songs and Sonets, Milton's Paradise Lost, Comus and Lycidas and he is joint author of Masterful Images - A History of English Poetry from Metaphysicals to Romantics.