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.
Happily Twitter users sometimes (and increasingly) mention reading and enjoying Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth. Most recently, for example, shanaqui (‘I read a lot’) and salariyabookco (an award winning independent book publisher). We are trying to encourage the use of the hashtag#teotn for both the book and the film. Maybe one day – when the film comes out? – it will even ‘trend‘! Meanwhile please spread the word to encourage reading of The Eagle of the Ninth, wherever, and hashtag or not!