El Usurpador del Imperio | Spanish Rosemary Sutcliff
Author: Anthony Lawton
Chair, Sussex Dolphin, family company which looks after the work of eminent children’s & historical fiction author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). Formerly CEO, chair & trustee of various charity, cultural & educational enterprises in UK. Sometimes a consultant.
Wordy Scientist’s Fantasy Job is (the) Eagle of the Ninth | A Life in Books Meme
Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth is well known to a self-styled wordy scientist, I learn from my Google alert. She was inspired to play along with a ‘game’ which is about answering questions using only the book titles you’ve read this year. Her fantasy job shows her familiarity with Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel.
In high school I was: Not Quite a Lady (Loretta Chase)
People might be surprised I’m: Looking for Rachel Wallace (Robert B. Parker)
I will never be: Sleepless (Charlie Huston) **
My fantasy job is: Eagle of the Ninth (Rosemary Sutcliff) **
Film Centurion not based on The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
The film The Eagle, not Centurion, is based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman novel The Eagle of the Ninth. I mention this because it was wrongly claimed in the UK Guardian newspaper when the film first came out earlier this year that the film Centurion was indeed based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s book. I wrote to put them right! And it bears repeating, since Centurion is due out in the States and has just come out now on DVD:Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Knight’s Fee re-read by Australian fantasy author Garth Nix in 2007! | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
The things you learn with Google alert, which is sometimes a year or two late …! Rosemary Sutcliff’s Knight’s Fee was being read in 2007 around this time by author Garth Nix. Described by the promoters, Jarrold department store, as one of the world’s great fantasy writers”, he will in fact be signing copies of The Violet Keystone in Norwich today!
A full-time writer since 2001, he was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, and bookseller. His books include the award-winning fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen; and the cult favourite YA SF novel Shade’s Children.
And Knight’s Fee? In short, the story is set against the violent and turbulent backdrop of Norman England. A young ill-treated boy who is wagered and won in a game of chess between a lord and a minstrel …
Rosemary Sutcliff’s novel Rider of the White Horse loved by Australian writer Alison Stuart
Alison Stuart describes herself as a ‘writer, lawyer, traveller, mother, wife and cat person!’ She lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her ‘passion is for the period of the English Civil War’ and she has two published novels set in that era. She has written :
‘Rosemary Sutcliff was probably my biggest influence growing up with her Rider of the White Horse, sending me on a quest to learn all I could about Sir Thomas Fairfax’.
Sources: her website, blog and historical fiction books
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 