Reader Angela Roemelt posted at the You Write! tab on this blog a few days back – sorry I missed it, caught up with work demands :
I can totally relate to … experience of rediscovery . I have read many of Rosemary Sutcliff’s books as a child and teenager. I started re-reading them a couple of years ago as a ‘mid-fortyager’ and it was like meeting old friends. visiting old places, but seeing them now from a different perspective. Read More »
The Carnegie Medal for 2013 is awarded today. The Medal is awarded every year in the UK to the writer of an outstanding book for children. (2013 shortlist here).
The eminent Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92) won the (former) Library Association Carnegie Medal in 1959 for her historical novel for children The Lantern Bearers (she wrote for children”aged 8 to 88″, she said). She was runner-up with Tristan and Iseult in 1972. Read More »
In September last year I posted at my parallel Rosemary Sutcliff Facebook page:
…a warm welcome to all who have ‘liked’ here in recent weeks …. I want to collect comments from people here about Rosemary, her books, what you have read, and why you love it…Comment away here and please do share this request.
People wrote as follows: Read More »
Recent Twitter post @FurnissLawton (my daughter, a literary agent) commented “How authors used to collect press cuttings @rsutcliff‘s ‘Sword at Sunset’ 1963″ with a picture pic.twitter.com/ZzpHjur2ay
Good morning, and Happy Father’s Day , at least in the UK…
I have been sorting my shelves of books connected with historical novelist and children’s writer Rosemary Sutcliff – from her research library, the collection of titles and books which I inherited from her, and those I have acquired since her death in my role as her literary executor. (It it must be done, for we are moving house.)
Adventure Stories for Ten Year Olds ( Macmillan Children’s Books, 2001) was ‘compiled’ by Helen Paiba, and illustrated by Douglas Carrel. According to the blurb, Helen Paiba was “known as one of the most committed, knowledgeable, and acclaimed children’s booksellers in Britain.” For “more than twenty years she owned and ran the Children’s Bookshop in Muswell Hill, London, which under her guidance gained a superb reputation for its range of children’s books and for the advice available for its customers.” In 1995 she was awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award, given for distinguished service to the world of children’s books.The story from Rosemary is an extract from Brother Dusty Feet (Oxford University Press, 1952, pp 23-33). It begins Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 