Arthur Ransome charmed us with Swallows and Amazons, and we all wished we could be right there on Cormorant Island with the adventurers. But we wondered; is the setting of this book a real place? Could there really be a Cormorant Island? And what of Captain Flint and his trunk?

We weren’t the only ones to wonder apparently! Christina Hardyment, an author from England, has a new book out called Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint’s Trunk. You can read the preface here.