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.
Excellent reviews by readers of Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth litter the internet. Here are some five star reviews on Google books of The Eagle of the Ninth which is being made also into a ‘sword and sandal’ film in 2010.