Roland Chambers on Arthur Ransome
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’ new book, The Last Englishman. Here, he explains more…
Roland Chambers studied film and literature in Poland and at New York University before returning to England in 1998. His first biography, The Last Englishman, won a Jerwood award from the Royal Society of Literature, and draws on his experience both as a children’s author and as a private investigator specialising in Russian politics and business. He currently divides his time between London and Connecticut, where his wife teaches literature at Yale.
