Many people started reading Rosemary Sutcliff books in their youth and still re-visit them. Some have kindly posted comments around this blog. Today Jenny, commenting upon the pleasure of re-reading Rosemary Sutcliff, recalled some words from Frontier Wolf :
‘Lucius and his Gregorics!…He must know it by heart, but when Alexios had once said that to him, he had said in his quiet, rather serious way that he knew the taste of honey by heart, too, but it still tasted sweet on barley-bannock …’
Excellent reviews by readers of Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth litter the internet. Here are some five star reviews on Google books of The Eagle of the Ninth which is being made also into a ‘sword and sandal’ film in 2010.
The Eagle of the Ninth, promoted as a children’s book, is also ‘magnificent’ adult fiction, an ‘outstanding’ historical novel, and better than Simon Scarrow books, said reviewer Bob Salter on Amazon in 2009. Like director of the film of The Eagle of the Ninth, Kevin Macdonald, he likened the story to a Western film; it made him think of 1966 film The Appaloosa with Marlon Brando. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth (now also a film movie) is a ‘masterpiece’, thinks Carmen Ferreiro Esteban. Born in Galicia in Spain and now living in the USA, Carmen wrote the young adult novel Two Moon Princess. She wrote on her blog:Read More »
One of the pleasures, I discover, of actively nurturing this blog is that people have begun sending me their experiences with the books of Rosemary Sutcliff. Keith Taylor is an Australian writer who “loves good historical fiction” and found Rosemary Sutcliff a “powerful inspiration”, along with Mary Renault and Cecilia Holland. But he “didn’t discover them until later; Rosemary Sutcliff came first, when I was still in high school”.Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 