Swallows and Amazons (12 page)

 

NEIL HANNON

Neil Hannon is a singer, lyricist and composer. Although he is best known for recording and performing as The Divine Comedy, he has also written extensively for TV and film, including the music to
Father Ted
and
The IT Crowd
. He has collaborated with everyone from Michael Nyman to Tom Jones, and his recent cricket-themed side project The Duckworth Lewis Method was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award.
Swallows and Amazons
is his first venture into the world of musical theatre.

A Nick Hern Book

This stage adaptation of
Swallows and Amazons
first published in Great Britain as a paperback original in 2011 by Nick Hern Books Limited, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP

This ebook first published in 2014

Swallows and Amazons
(novel) copyright © 1930 The Estate of Arthur Ransome

Swallows and Amazons
(adaptation) copyright © 2011 Helen Edmundson and Neil Hannon

Helen Edmundson and Neil Hannon have asserted their right to be identified as the adapters of this work

Cover image by Quinton Winter (www.quintonwinter.com)

Cover design by Ned Hoste, 2H

Typeset by Nick Hern Books, London

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84842 237 7 (print edition)

ISBN 978 1 78001 524 8 (ebook edition)

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