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Rosemary Sutcliff’s Knight’s Fee re-read by Australian fantasy author Garth Nix in 2007! | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day

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Hardback Cover 1960 of Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novel for children and young adults, Knight's Fee

The things you learn with Google alert, which is sometimes a year or two late …! Rosemary Sutcliff’s  Knight’s Fee was being read in 2007 around this time by author Garth Nix. Described by the promoters, Jarrold department store, as one of the world’s great fantasy writers”, he will in fact be signing copies of  The Violet Keystone in Norwich today!

A full-time writer since 2001, he was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, and bookseller. His books include the award-winning fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen; and the cult favourite YA SF novel Shade’s Children.

And Knight’s Fee? In short, the story is set against the violent and turbulent backdrop of Norman England. A young ill-treated boy who is wagered and won in a game of chess between a lord and a minstrel …

Rosemary Sutcliff’s novel Rider of the White Horse loved by Australian writer Alison Stuart

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Alison Stuart describes herself as a ‘writer, lawyer, traveller, mother, wife and cat person!’ She  lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her ‘passion is for the period of the English Civil War’ and she has two published novels set in that era. She has written :

‘Rosemary Sutcliff was probably my biggest influence growing up with her Rider of the White Horse, sending me on a quest to learn all I could about Sir Thomas Fairfax’.

Sources: her website, blog and historical fiction books

Rosemary Sutcliff at the Guardian Hay Festival?

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In her bestselling historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth, now being made into a film, Rosemary Sutcliff once wrote that Marcus, the hero, at his uncle’s house one evening thought the room  ” … seemed to shimmer with a faint air  of festival …”. Read More »

Rosemary Sutcliff on The Dream Time by Henry Treece

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Copy of the cover of The Dream Time by Henry Treece. Rosemary Sutcliff write a post-script for the book.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 »

Rosemary Sutcliff wrote fairytales | Einstein said fairy-tales essential for intelligence

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Rosemary Sutcliff created evocative historical novels and fairy-tales from her powerful imagination. She would have agreed with scientist Albert Einstein:

If you want your children to be intelligent read them fairy-tales. If you want them to be more intelligent read them more fairy tales.Read More »