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.
Rosemary Sutcliff, her children’s books and indeed her illustrators, figure occasionally in the intriguing blog of Daughter Number Three. Today by chance a google alert told me of her comments at a book collector’s blog about the pleasure of finding some ‘pristine’ Rosemary Sutcliff books in an Edinburgh book-shop. She said:
My most recent bookstore moment was in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the end of the Royal Mile near Mary Queen of Scot’s palace. There’s a used bookstore near the gate, and in it I found half a dozen pristine Rosemary Sutcliff titles that would never be available in the U.S. (I supposed I could have ordered them over the Internet, but where’s the fun in that?)
I carried them around the rest of the day, on the train back to where we were staying, and all the way home in my luggage. And every time I think of them or see them, I’m happy I did.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 