Zbigniew Tycienski grew up in south-east Poland but after time in Greece and Italy he migrated to the United Kingdom and settled in Edinburgh. Along the way, he read The Eagle of the Ninth and posted this intriguing article about one of Rosemary Sutcliff’s best historical novels.
One may at first conclude that Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) is a book for boys about men and masculinity. Read More »
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 »
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.
Twitter is perhaps a wonderful thing? It tells me that Nicki is reading The Sword and the Circle for World Book Day. She twitted: 5 of 5 stars to The Saxon Settler by Rosemary Sutcliff. I have been urging people to read The Eagle of the Ninth for the day! If you use twitter, search under #worldbookday and see @shanaqui as well as @rsutcliff .
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 