Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel The Silver Branch was much admired and enjoyed by Amazon Scottish customer Robert Livingston, who gave it five stars a few years back.
When I was just old enough to start taking an interest in ‘real’ books, a wise librarian suggested to my mother that I might like The Silver Branch. I have loved it ever since and have read and reread it many times. Read More »
Song for a Dark Queen, the Rosemary Sutcliff award-winning historical novel about Boudicca (Boadicea) was dramatised as a play in 1984 at The Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, adapted and directed by Nigel Bryant. British accordion and concertina player BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year 2010, John Kirkpatrick Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth words entered in Google search produces some 9 million results, and number two this moment (about 12.37 in the UK) is from this blog! It will not last, I know not why, but I have been trying to use keywords to signal this site for enquirers about both The Eagle of the Ninth film and book, and for Rosemary Sutcliff. Read More »
On film from Twitter: In Japan, someone is reading The Eagle of the Ninth and telling Tumblr!
Rosemary Sutcliff, her children’s books and indeed her illustrators, figure occasionally in the intriguing blog of Daughter Number Three. Today by chance a google alert told me of her comments at a book collector’s blog about the pleasure of finding some ‘pristine’ Rosemary Sutcliff books in an Edinburgh book-shop. She said: Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 