Blood and Sand was one of Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novels written for adults. Based on real events, it is set in The Ottoman Empire, the ‘Sick Old Man of Europe’. Scot Thomas Keith, a former apprentice gunsmith from Edinburgh, is a young soldier with the 78th Highlanders in the Napoleonic wars. Turkish forces capture him in 1807 in the Nile deltaRead 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.
Another film co-written by Rosemary Sutcliff | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Now amazingly I have discovered another film that Rosemary Sutcliff helped write, in 1984, starring Sean Connery.Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff Discovery of the Day: Eagle of the Ninth by ローズマリ・サトクリフ on front page of Japanese Amazon website
The world-famous Rosemary Sutcliff historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth (being made into a film with Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell by director Kevin Macdonald and producer Duncan Kenworthy) in Japan is 第九軍団のワシ by ローズマリ サトクリフ (著), C.ウォルター ホッジス (イラスト), Rosemary Sutcliff (原著), 猪熊 葉子 (翻訳). Curiously today today the front of the Amazon website in Japan shows two US editions … and not the Japanese one. Read More »
ともしびをかかげて (April 2008) by ローズマリ サトクリフ, (Rosemary Sutcliff), and 猪熊 葉子 is Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Lantern Bearers in Japan
Rosemary Sutcliff has always been popular in Japan and I have been exploring http://www.amazon.co.jp . I am hindered by my lack of japanese, and only slightly helped by Google translate. This is a customer review of ともしびをかかげて〈下〉 which I think is The Lantern Bearers.
アクイラは晴れてアンブロシウスの部下となりました。しかしブリトン側は他の部族とは一進一退が続き、気の抜けない状況です。Read More »
Historical novelist Rosemary Sutcliff disliked history at school
Rosemary Sutcliff disliked history at school, which she only started aged ten. And she missed much of the usual childhood activity and friends because of prolonged illness and hospital stays – she had Stills disease.Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 