For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
In 2008 Earl Spencer chose Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth as the book that had changed his life. On International Literacy Day in 2008 author Sebastian Faulks launched a campaign for Book Aid International ‘Books Change Lives’. The plan was to send thousands of books a year to communities in Africa. The campaign asked a number of celebrities and public figures to choose a book that had ‘changed their life’. Joanna Lumley chose The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Conservative leader, David Cameron picked Robert Graves’ account of life in the World War I trenches Goodbye to All That.
In 2008 Earl Spencer chose Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth as the book that had changed his life. On International Literacy Day in 2008 author Sebastian Faulks launched a campaign for Book Aid International ‘Books Change Lives’. The plan was to send thousands of books a year to communities in Africa. The campaign asked a number of celebrities and public figures to choose a book that had ‘changed their life’. Joanna Lumley chose The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Conservative leader, David Cameron picked Robert Graves’ account of life in the World War I trenches Goodbye to All That. 
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
The earl has excellent taste! Any word of his on why he chose it?
Personally, I’d have to choose “The Lantern Bearers” as the novel that changed my life.
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