The Eagle of the Ninth (now a 2010 film) is ‘perhaps’ Rosemary Sutcliff’s ‘finest book of historical fiction’ claims Alan Myers, and she is ‘one of the most distinguished children’s writers of our times’. The Eagle of the Ninth ‘exemplifies the psychological dilemmas that Rosemary Sutcliff brought to her novels’.
Sword at Sunset, a historical novel by Rosemary Sutcliff, was reviewed in 1987 by a reader who described himself as a ‘recovering chemical engineer’:
“… Rosemary Sutcliff’s Sword at Sunset stands out for its raw emotion and storyline stripped down to the essentials … This novel makes other versions, no matter how much fantasy and magic are injected, pallid by comparison. Other authors have recreated a gritty, realistic Arthur since Sutcliff introduced the idea more than forty years ago, but this first attempt at that take on the Arthurian legend still stands out as the best”.
(Eric Eller in Greenman Review)
Now amazingly I have discovered another film that Rosemary Sutcliff helped write, in 1984, starring Sean Connery.Read More »
The Sword and The Circle is the first part of The Eagle of the Ninth author Rosemary Sutcliff’s trilogy of tellings of the King Arthur legend. In the introduction she wrote about the real man Arthur.
Many people believe, as I do, that behind the legends of King Arthur as we know them today, there stands a real man. Read More »
In 600 A.D., many years after King Arthur defeated the Saxons, the tribes of Britain are again threatened by invaders who are gaining strength in the East. Prosper and his loyal bondsman, Conn, answer the call of King Mynydogg to join the fighting forces of Prince Gorthyna and the highly skilled Shining Company.Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 