Rosemary Sutcliff’s Fabulous Flower of Adonis

Emma-in-Oz wrote in her blog in 2008 that the Flower of Adonis was ‘fabulous’:

It’s one of her ‘adult’ novels. It has a difficult and fairly dark subject matter – the end of the Greek golden age of the fifth century. Read More »

School class reads Rosemary Sutcliff’s Black Ships before Troy | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day

The ever useful Google Alerts tells me this morning that in California (USA) this week  Mrs Miller’s History class has begun to read and discuss Rosemary Sutcliff’s retelling of The Iliad –  Black Ships Before Troy. Good choice!