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.
Readers of this blog will know I have today been much entertained, even detained, by the Guardian published figures for books sold last year 2011. Playing around with the spreadsheet revealed for example that the value of all the paperback copies of Rosemary Sutcliff‘s The Eagle of the Ninth sold (in two versions) was about the same money as the paperback version of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I find that gratifying, recalling that Rosemary Sutcliff’s novel was first published nearly 60 years ago!
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
Yes, I’ve just spent the last hour trawling through the full list!
You may also notice that ‘Eagle’ sold three times as many copies as current Roman writer Anthony Riches [set on Hadrian’s Wall in the 180’s]
Congratulations!
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