Month: February 2011

Author Rosemary Sutcliff contributes to Super Bowl XLV !

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As I posted a while back, Rosemary Sutcliff – eminent writer of children’s literature and historical fiction – and her novel The Eagle of the Ninth have never until now, to my knowledge, been connected with American Football and the Super Bowl. But at Sunday coming’s Super Bowl  XLV – the big American football event of the year – a TV advertisement  for The Eagle film (out Feb. 11 in USA, 25th March in UK) will be broadcast. The film is  based upon  Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth story, indeed in several European countries, but not in the UK sadly, the film entitled The Eagle of the Ninth (in French, German or whatever …)

Some film  studios are bypassing the game itself and air advertisements during the festivities before the games, when the cost is lower. This is what Focus Features are doing. Those of you football fans who find your way here can find more about the book, film and author all over this site!

Source: The Hollywood Reporter.

Saturday Morning Radio in New Zealand with Kim Hill and Kate De Goldi

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Kate De Goldi is due to discuss the work of writer Rosemary Sutcliff, best known for her historical novels such as The Eagle of the Ninth series, on Saturday morning  at 11.45am NZ Time (10.45pm in UK) radio on 5th February. Wellington  (NZ) author, publisher and broadcaster Kate De Goldi is the 2011 winner of the New Zealand’s top award for children’s writers and illustrators, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award.

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Quote from Rosemary Sutcliff’s award-winning historical novel The Lantern Bearers

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For a moment they stood looking at each other in the firelight, while the old harper still fingered the shining strings and the other man looked on with a gleam of amusement lurking in his watery blue eyes. But Aquila was not looking at him. He was looking only at the dark young man, seeing that he was darker even than he had thought at first, and slightly built in a way that went with the darkness, as though maybe the old blood, the blood of the People of the Hills, ran strong in him. But his eyes, under brows as straight as a raven’s flight-pinions, were not the eyes of the little Dark People, which were black and unstable and full of dreams, but a pale clear grey, lit with gold, that gave the effect of flame behind them.
from The Lantern Bearers, quoted at Goodreads

Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth and Warrior Scarlet recommended by bestselling author Philip Reeve

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Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth and Warrior Scarlet have been listed by writer Philip Reeve as two of his favourite books, defined as ‘the books which mattered most to me while I was growing up … (which are) well worth tracking down’!.

…or I could have chosen Knight’s Fee, or The Lantern Bearers, or Sun-horse, Moon-horse, or Frontier Wolf… Rosemary Sutcliff is one of my favourite children’s authors, and I doubt she ever wrote a bad book, but these were the two I liked best when I was growing up. Read More »

STOP PRESS The Eagle of the Ninth film tie-in edition published by OUP

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Rosemary Sutcliff’s bestselling historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth was first published by Oxford University Press in 1954. Today a special paperback version, tied-in to the film The Eagle, is published. See and buy it here on the OUP site; or here at Amazon in the UK. or here in the USA.