Trying to make sense of comments made on the previous Spanish post , I am faced with a comment that in translation is as follows:
Why, however romanófilo it one, give me I would not like the novel. You were giving me itchy with the description of the protagonists (so young and perfect) and the Manicheism good / bad. It will be as you say by the age of the novel, but one has their prejudices with these things. Although I suppose that’s a very good young adult novel set. Great review Valeria.
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 »
The Times Online has again written Sutcliffe (with an E, wrong) where it should write Sutcliff. It has made this mistake on at least ten occasions in the last five years. Try searching under Rosemary Sutcliffe (the wrong spelling) for yourself; below is a picture of the results. I wrote to ‘letters to the editor’ – no response until I wrote to the editor direct – that:
The Times, not least as a paper of ‘record’, should surely always get the spelling right of the internationally acclaimed historical novelist who you yourselves in January 2008 identified as one of the “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”. (You spelled it correctly that time …)
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.
Channing Tatum is in the upcoming movie “Eagle of the Ninth” is a piece on the coming film which makes the case for it as a movie for girls, with the “hunky” Channing Tatum. More about the film and the book on which it is based here on this blog.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 