Strong Winds series out. Locations for the narrative include Leeds and Colchester; Pin Mill, Alton Water, River Deben and Shotley, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Zeebrugge. In 2006, while working on a PhD thesis, Julia Jones decided to become a writer of adventure stories like the Swallows and Amazons series of Arthur Ransome she had read as a child. "The Salt-Stained Book", the first part of a planned trilogy, was released in June 2011. Jones hoped the trilogy would "inspire a new generation of children to mess about in boats." A fourth book followed the original trilogy, to make it a 'series'. The books contain frequent
Swallows and Amazons Forever! (father of Tom) and Frank Farland (father of the twins) plus in "Coot Club" five obnoxious adults in a motor cruiser, the "Margoletta" who are called the Hullabaloos by the children. Despite the title, Ramsome's other groups of children the Swallows and the Amazons do not appear. A Puffin paperback with the same title was published in 1983; it is a condensation of Coot Club (omitting the postscript) and The Big Six.(omittiing 7 chapters). It was reissued as a Red Fox paperback in 1993 with the title "Swallows and Amazons for Ever!" Swallows and Amazons Forever! Swallows and Amazons Forever!