Rosemary Sutcliff’s description in Tristan and Iseult of Iseult’s hair as “the colour of brambles when the sap rises in them in the springtime” has stayed in mind for TRIG in Ireland.
I looked out for that the spring after I first read it. I’d never noticed before how beautiful brambles are when the sap rises in them in the springtime. It’s an extraordinary colour.
Charles Keeping illustrated many Rosemary Sutcliff children’s books. He won many book awards including, twice, the Francis Williams Prize and the Library Association’s Kate Greenaway Medal. Mabel George, children’s books’ editor at Oxford University Press, Rosemary Sutcliff’s publisher, Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff bestseller The Eagle of the Ninth is on BBC Radio next week: it may be that the Beeb has been stirred by the coming film. Is this ‘sword and sandals’ or ‘swords and sandals’ radio?
Source: BBC Radio 7 Programmes – Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth – Episodes coming up.
Rosemary Sutcliff, more and more in the news because of the coming film of her bestseller The Eagle of the Ninth, would regret that an august newspaper like The Observer spells her name wrong, as sadly others have done recently, including The Times, The Daily Mail, The Morning Star, Bedfordshire Libraries and several twitterers! It is NOT Rosemary Sutclffe (wrong with an ‘E’). Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff, author of The Eagle of the Ninth now in the news as a ‘sword and sandals’ film (The Eagle of the Ninth!), was reviewed with affectionate insight by Veronica Horwell in The Guardian newspaper shortly after her death in 1992.
Rosemary Sutcliff did not spare the child, the raven and the wolf gorging on the battlefield dead. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 