Is this the perfect way to enjoy tea, coffee or hot grog, whether during a perilous imaginary adventure, meeting friends, working at your desk or reading your favourite book? It's just one of our 12 new book cover mug designs: https://t.co/oCGDR6UnX3

Can a mug really be a promise of adventure? - "Dorothea, for once, was inventing no stories. Those two mugs, left in the igloo, were as good as a promise that there was more of the story to come ..." (Winter Holiday). Maybe not, but it could help: Swallows & Amazons mugs

We're looking forward to taking a Voyage of Discovery to Windermere Jetty Museum's 2025 Festival of the Lake! If you're coming, please do drop by our stall, to discover the lake as the Swallows and Amazons knew it, and perhaps even practice your semaphore and Morse.

... Our new Swallows & Amazons coasters are here:

You can now lay firm foundations for your morning coffee, afternoon tea and evening "grog" with one of our new Swallows & Amazons coasters ...

"Not what I call homely". Or is it? Could one or more of our new original Arthur Ransome illustration mounted prints be "just right" for your wall? A full set of book cover designs and new colour prints are also now available. https://t.co/AT2zmVy8aV

Will you be near Arnside and at a loose end, at 4.30pm on Monday 6 May? If so, Arnside Sailing Club is the place to go, for a screening of Swallows and Amazons (1974). Tickets are £5.00 (adults) and £3.00 (children).

Homer. Sophocles. Sappho. And Rattletrap ... Catch our new Pigeon Post collaboration with the Lakeland Motor Museum and the Trojan Museum Trust from 1 May: https://t.co/aSEFlW1okx

"It's the answer," said Roger. "It's a Yes, and it's a Yes for me too ..." And it can be a "Yes" for your home, too, with our new mounted water colour prints, each of which is ready for you to frame however you wish.

Do you enjoy dreek autumnal weather? If not, you can always escape to summer adventures - or even a REAL winter one - with Gabriel Woolf's acclaimed audiobooks. Now £14.90 each, if you buy 2 or more using code GW2plus in our shop.

Ransome Discoverer: why not catch up on Ransome's life, Russian folklore, story-telling theory and gothic horror romance with our ART3plus 20% discount, available now at https://t.co/ADXZTZKs1O ?

We've added new discount options in our online shop. You can now get 20% off cards in a £10.00+ order, or 30% in a £50.00+ order. Now you can stock up your cards in bulk, or add one, or two, (or a lot!) of cards to an order for books or audiobooks.

And not only greetings cards - we have new postcards too...

From a signal of distress to instructions from Captain Nancy - there's plenty to enjoy in our new greetings cards, now in stock in our online shop.

If you're near Windermere Jetty Museum today or tomorrow, then why not drop in to the marathon reading of Swallowdale? (Shipwrecks, fogs and Great aunts permitting ...) More details at If Not Duffers. https://t.co/5aiPHUlg9l

Hugh Lupton will be performing "The Homing Stone", his tribute to his Great-Uncle Arthur Ransome's extraordinary life and his love for the Lake District at the Stealing Thunder Literary Festival, Bowland Bridge, at 5.00pm on June 3: https://t.co/JxDijOPkkP

Great Coastal Railway Journeys: from Ulverston to Ravenglass with references to Arthur Ransome; this Thursday evening, on BBC2... https://t.co/tC5Tj9jqTE

We agree! Roger would surely have an app-etite for exploring like this.

"Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors. Nothing ever happens in the Winter Holidays". Or does it? If not quite in the holidays, then in winter, in Shrewsbury, where the first stage adaptation of Winter Holiday opens this weekend. https://t.co/h1vRFuEJmX

Great Northern! If you are searching the Hebrides for Divers (or "just" dreaming of doing so), you can now report your discoveries (or dreams) with our new Great Northern greetings/postcards - the latest additions to our Swallows & Amazons card range. https://t.co/UIPkMenyaP