Two Rosemary Sutcliff titles are available in Welsh. Since I am temporarily working up here in Bangor in North Wales, heart of Welsh-speaking Wales, it seems right – indeed essential – to recall an older post and note that Cwchwlin Penarwr Iwerddon (The Hound of Ulster), and Merch y Pennaeth (The Chief’s Daughter). Author G R Grove, who wrote Storyteller, Flight of the Hawk, and The Ash Spear reminded me of these editions.
Rosemary Sutcliff cross-over book The SiIver Branch loved by Scottish Amazon customer | Rosemary Sutcliff Review of the Week
Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel The Silver Branch was much admired and enjoyed by Amazon Scottish customer Robert Livingston, who gave it five stars a few years back.
When I was just old enough to start taking an interest in ‘real’ books, a wise librarian suggested to my mother that I might like The Silver Branch. I have loved it ever since and have read and reread it many times. Read More »
Song for A Dark Queen music by BBC Radio 2 folk musician of the year John Kirkpatrick
Song for a Dark Queen, the Rosemary Sutcliff award-winning historical novel about Boudicca (Boadicea) was dramatised as a play in 1984 at The Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, adapted and directed by Nigel Bryant. British accordion and concertina player BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year 2010, John Kirkpatrick Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth succeeds in Google search
The Eagle of the Ninth words entered in Google search produces some 9 million results, and number two this moment (about 12.37 in the UK) is from this blog! It will not last, I know not why, but I have been trying to use keywords to signal this site for enquirers about both The Eagle of the Ninth film and book, and for Rosemary Sutcliff. Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth photographed in Japan!
On film from Twitter: In Japan, someone is reading The Eagle of the Ninth and telling Tumblr!
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 