In 2008 Earl Spencer chose Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth as the book that had changed his life. On International Literacy Day in 2008 author Sebastian Faulks launched a campaign for Book Aid International ‘Books Change Lives’. The plan was to send thousands of books a year to communities in Africa. The campaign asked a number of celebrities and public figures to choose a book that had ‘changed their life’. Joanna Lumley chose The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Conservative leader, David Cameron picked Robert Graves’ account of life in the World War I trenches Goodbye to All That.
Category: The Eagle of the Ninth
Google Books search relates odd four books to The Eagle of the Ninth | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Can anyone explain this, technically or otherwise? If you search for <“The Eagle of the Ninth” +Sutcliff> on Google books, there are four ‘related books”:
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Good books all in their different ways; and Rosemary is keeping fine company! But why these four, and not some of her other books, let alone some closer relatives like historical fiction …..
The Eagle of the Ninth lost in translation
The ever usful Google Alert points me to all manner of items linked with Rosemary Sutcliff. The Google Translator is less reliable. Thus read and translate a paragraph of a german blog:Read More »
Film of Rosemary Sutcliff’s book The Eagle of the Ninth with stars Channing Tatum, Donald Sutherland, Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Tahar Rahim
The ‘Roman epic adventure’ film of The Eagle of the Ninth is directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald and produced by Duncan Kenworthy. Channing Tatum heads the cast (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the … Dear John) . Focus features, funders with Film 4 said Read More »
Physicist science fiction fan recommends Rosemary Sutcliff books
Today, courtesy of a Google Alert, I came across an old discussion thread, ‘Is there a war between Science Fiction and Historical Fiction’ , where a physicist who reads Rosemary Sutcliff recommends several of Rosemary’s books. Although he did spell her name wrong – with an E, a regular moan of this blog, Stephen Harker wrote:
Rosemary Sutcliffe’s (sic) Sword at Sunset and Rider on the White Horse are well worth reading. A lot of her historical fiction was pitched towards children and adolescents. However, I have found them worth re-reading as an adult, for example: The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers which have some connection with Sword at Sunset.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 