Rosemary Sutcliff, her children’s books and indeed her illustrators, figure occasionally in the intriguing blog of Daughter Number Three. Today by chance a google alert told me of her comments at a book collector’s blog about the pleasure of finding some ‘pristine’ Rosemary Sutcliff books in an Edinburgh book-shop. She said: Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff on The Dream Time by Henry Treece
Rosemary Sutcliff believed that different stories needed different words strung together in different ways, she wrote in the post-script to fellow story-teller Henry Treece’s novel The Dream Time.
Different kinds of stories need to be told in different kinds of words strung together in different ways. Henry Treece Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth author Rosemary Sutcliff won The Carnegie Medal for The Lantern Bearers in 1959
That The Eagle of the Ninth author Rosemary Sutcliff won The Carnegie Medal just over 50 years ago (for her historical novel The Lantern Bearers) came to mind when I stumbled upon the long list of nominations for 2010 (STOP PRESS and now shortlist). Rosemary Sutcliff fan Philip Reeve is nominated for Fever Crumb (STOP PRESS now shortlisted, and an interview with Philip Reeve here). Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth film writer Rosemary Sutcliff and TV journalist Samira Ahmed passionate about Westerns
Film The Eagle of the Ninth original author Rosemary Sutcliff, historical novelist and children’s writer, loved a good Western movie. Kevin Macdonald, director of the new The Eagle of the Ninth film, draws on Westerns. Channel 4 newsreader and reporter Samira Ahmed writes an intriguing story of her own journey with Westerns, from age 8, at the Touching from a Distance website on popular culture. Read More »
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ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 