Perhaps Dom Coyote (first-cousin-twice-removed of Rosemary Sutcliff) has inherited some story-telling genes. Currently expressed through music.
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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.
Twitter users like The Eagle film from The Eagle of the Ninth book
B+ for ‘invigorating, cool-toned movie The Eagle from ‘ripping novel’ The Eagle of the Ninth | EW.com
Lisa Schwarzbaum, film critic for EW, gives The Eagle film a B+.
It is (an) invigorating, cool-toned, action-filled Roman historical adventure … Millions who have read Rosemary Sutcliff‘s ripping 1954 historical novel named after that eagle already know the stakes. Anyone else ready for rugged action involving swords, sandals, designated savages, and bonding between political adversaries is bound to fall in happily with the mood of this handsome, lean production. The story and setting may be ancient, but under the direction of Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), and with a nicely textured screenplay by Macdonald’s Scotland co-screenwriter Jeremy Brock, the vigor is fully modern. The director’s documentary background informs his almost reportorial attention to landscape, fighting technique, and especially the wild, fascinating otherness of the peoples beyond the reach of Rome. The characteristically rich grain of the (often handheld) cinematography by Slumdog Millionaire‘s Anthony Dod Mantle adds to the you-are-there feeling.
Follow-up The Eagle in the USA with the new movie tie-in book editions
For those of you in North America who have found your way to this blog after watching The Eagle film based on Rosemary Sutcliff‘s great story The Eagle of the Ninth, the publishers (and I!) invite you to check out the reissue of the entire Roman Britain Trilogy from Square Fish! You can experience “the guts and glory with the movie tie-in edition of The Eagle of the Ninth” and “get the conversation started with their discussion guide“.
Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins and maybe Rosemary Sutcliff discover 18th century poetic dildos
Rosemary Sutcliff, interested in the bawdy when the mood took her, would surely have shared The Guardian newspaper’s chief arts writer Charlotte Higgins’s delight in getting published an article about 18th century poetic dildos! (But as a Telegraph reader she would have seen it only if alerted by Guardian reader such as I!)
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
