Rosemary Sutcliff was an internationally renowned writer of historical novels, for children, young adults and adults. She also wrote stories for children. This category compiles the posts on this blog by title.
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 »
Reading Sutcliff’s famous historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth helped enthuse University of Reading lecturer Matthew Nicholls as a child about Roman history. His article in The Guardian Notes and Queries led me to ask what it was about the famous novel which he found so ‘wonderful’
… I can remember reading The Eagle of the Ninth when I was about 7 or 8; at that age I was starting Latin at School and showing an interest in Romans, so my parents took me off to Wall near Lichfield where we lived and must have bought me the book too. It made a great impression, Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth author Rosemary Sutcliff, children’s writer of historical fiction, has won the ‘highly prestigious’ Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) 2010 Phoenix Award in the USA – see here – for her historical novel The Shining Company. The prize is for a book which did not win awards when it first came out but whose reputation has grown over 20 years.Read More »
In 600 A.D., many years after King Arthur defeated the Saxons, the tribes of Britain are again threatened by invaders who are gaining strength in the East. Prosper and his loyal bondsman, Conn, answer the call of King Mynydogg to join the fighting forces of Prince Gorthyna and the highly skilled Shining Company.Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 