Long before Swallows and Amazons was published, there had been another Arthur Ransome, famous for different reasons. MI6? Bolshevism? All is revealed in Roland Chambers' gripping biography of the very British writer, The Last Englishman.

Roland Chambers: The Last Englishman

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