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.
I am still trying at every opportunity to nudge people who mis-spell Rosemary Sutcliff (sic) with an E as Sutcliffe (wrong!) to get it right and put it right. Hence today on Twitter:
And hence also I have been in touch today with the producer of the new The Eagle film to alert the film financiers Focus Features that they too have got it wrong on this page about the film!