A Rosemary Sutcliff children’s story features in a compilation of ‘ 36 horse and pony’ stories which I never even knew existed! The stories are also by such classic and modern authors of children’s literature as James Herriot, Ruby Ferguson, John Steinbeck, Rudyard Kipling,Read More »
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.
The Eagle of the Ninth book and The Appaloosa film | Rosemary Sutcliff Review of the Week
The Eagle of the Ninth, promoted as a children’s book, is also ‘magnificent’ adult fiction, an ‘outstanding’ historical novel, and better than Simon Scarrow books, said reviewer Bob Salter on Amazon in 2009. Like director of the film of The Eagle of the Ninth, Kevin Macdonald, he likened the story to a Western film; it made him think of 1966 film The Appaloosa with Marlon Brando. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff, Karen Cushman want life in the bones of history via books | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Rosemary Sutcliff and Karen Cushman are ‘moved to write historical fiction’ for the same reason
I write historical fiction because those are the stories that take me over. Rosemary Sutcliff, writer of gorgeous historical novels for young people, said, ‘Historians and teachers, you and your kind can produce the bare bones; I and my kind breathe life into them.’ That’s what I’m interested in — the life in those bones.
The Eagle of the Ninth film of Rosemary Sutcliff book | Channing Tatum’ll never film in Scotland again!
After Eagle of the Ninth filming, Channing Tatum tells ITN he’ll never film in Scotland again! But he also says the film of the historical novel is looking good …
Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth and the North-East of England
The Eagle of the Ninth (now a 2010 film) is ‘perhaps’ Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘finest book of historical fiction’ claims Alan Myers, and she is ‘one of the most distinguished children’s writers of our times’. The Eagle of the Ninth ‘exemplifies the psychological dilemmas that Rosemary Sutcliff brought to her novels’.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 