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Trawling the internet, researching libraries and databases, and occasionally from material sent to me, I discover things I did not know much about, or indeed at all! There can be more than one Discovery of the Day.

Miekka ja auringonlasku | Finnish translation of Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1963 bestseller Sword at Sunset

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Suomentanut Tapio Hiisivaara. Kustantanut Weilin + Göös. Rosemary Sutcliffin romaanit liikuvat usein historian ja fantasian välimaastossa. Niin myös tämä kirja, joka kertoo Artos Karhusta, maalaistytön pojasta, jossa isän puolelta virtaa roomalaisen sotilaskeisarin ja Britannian kuninkaiden verta. Artos on urhea soturi ja tunteellinen mies, onnekkaampi sodassa kuin rakkaudessa. Mutta Artoksella on kutsumuksensa. Hän on koonnut oman […]

Rosemary Sutcliff on researching and writing her historical novels

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Rosemary Sutcliff told one interviewer in the early 1960s:

‘I get down to what I enjoy much more, recreating the daily life of the people: the sort of houses they lived in, how they were furnished, what food they ate and how it was cooked, what they grew in their gardens, how they travelled, their clothes and weapons, and, very important from my point of view, what songs they sang and what stories they told round the fire at night.’

Margaret Meek's monograph on Rosemary Sutcliff

Source: Meek, M., 1962. Rosemary Sutcliff (Bodley Head, London). p 13.