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.
There have been over 700 new visitors to this site so far since early April, from – as of today – 5o countries. The last two visitors were from Sri Lanka and Hong Kong. I have no idea how this compares with other sites about (dead) historical novelists and children’s authors, but it pleases me, and I hope it has been useful to ‘you’ and them!
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I have just watched the trailor for ‘The Eagle’ and was dismayed to see how radically the makers of the film appeared to have departed from the plot and characterisation of Rosemary Sutcliff’s wonderful novel. Frankly it looks like rubbish, and I won’t be wasting my money on the price of a cinema ticket to see it.
The film-makers have indeed departed from the story as told by Rosemary Sutcliff at some points, and significantly in three respects in particular. But I have seen the film and . to my eyes and ears, it was far from ‘rubbish’, both as a film and as a re-presentation of the book. A film story is different from a book story, and has different requirements. I choose to think Rosemary would have welcomed the film. She, like almost all authors in all circumstances of novels on which films are based, would probably not have had a right of veto to changes even had she been alive.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
I have just watched the trailor for ‘The Eagle’ and was dismayed to see how radically the makers of the film appeared to have departed from the plot and characterisation of Rosemary Sutcliff’s wonderful novel. Frankly it looks like rubbish, and I won’t be wasting my money on the price of a cinema ticket to see it.
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The film-makers have indeed departed from the story as told by Rosemary Sutcliff at some points, and significantly in three respects in particular. But I have seen the film and . to my eyes and ears, it was far from ‘rubbish’, both as a film and as a re-presentation of the book. A film story is different from a book story, and has different requirements. I choose to think Rosemary would have welcomed the film. She, like almost all authors in all circumstances of novels on which films are based, would probably not have had a right of veto to changes even had she been alive.
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