Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff was born on May 14, 1920, in Surrey, England. She was a renowned British author celebrated for her historical fiction, captivated by her love of history and storytelling. Sutcliff's vivid narratives and immersive worlds have made her a cherished figure in children's literature.
Personal Name: Rosemary Sutcliff
Birth: 1920
Death: 1992
Rosemary Sutcliff Books
(48 Books)
A retelling of the adventures of Odysseus on his long voyage home from the Trojan War.
Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes.
Historical fiction.
A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.
Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.
A retelling of the adventures and exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons.
The evil Mordred, plotting against his father King Arthur, implicates the Queen and Sir Lancelot in treachery and brings about the downfall of Camelot and the Round Table.
A retelling of the adventures of King Arthur's knights, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival, as they search for the Holy Grail.
In Bronze Age Britain, Drem must overcome the disability of a crippled arm in order to pass his tribe's test of manhood and become a warrior.
A young Roman army medical officer, sent to Britain during the period of waning Roman rule, befriends a kinsman with whom he shares an adventure of intrigue, exile, and underground activity with the Lost Ninth Legion.
Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the now blind displaced King of the Scots, former gladiator and slave Phaedrus impersonates the Horse Lord to regain from the Picts the control of the Scottish kingdom.
Retells the Celtic legend of the love between the warrior Tristan and Iseult, the wife of King Marc of Cornwall.
When a minstrel's adopted dragon pup is stolen by a wicked showman, the minstrel's songs suffer accordingly.
Damaris Crocker had no lived her twelve years in smuggling country without knowing when a Run was planned. This night smugglers, or Fair Traders as they were known to the country folk, would bring more than just the usual contraband of brandy and lace. This night they would bring a mysterious wounded, young man and almost enough high adventure, romance and danger into Damaris's life to make her forget the one thing she wished for more than anything else - a flame-coloured taffeta petticoat just like the one the gypsy girl had worn when she danced at the harvest support....almost enough but not quite...
A lovely, flowing tale of smuggling and adventure
Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into slavery and sentenced to serve in a galley for the rest of his life.
In exile in Holland, Hugh Herriot recalls the exploits of his youth as a follower of Bonnie Dundee who tried to win back Scotland for the Catholic King James and whose death during a victorious battle proved to be a final blow for the Jacobite cause.
A young centurion commanding a unit of Frontier Scouts in Northern Britain during the waning period of Roman control. About AD 343. Livng history book for young people. Rosemary Sutcliff is well known and well liked for her historical fiction.
In late eleventh-century England, Randal, a young orphan at Arundel Castle, is won by a minstrel in a chess game and finds his life transformed when he is sent to be companion and squire to the grandson of the kind Sir Everard of Dean.
In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons.
At sixteen, Bjarni is cast out of the Norse settlement in the Angles' Land for an act of oath-breaking and spends five years sailing the west coast of Scotland and witnessing the feuds of the clan chiefs living there.
Sold into slavery to the Northmen in the tenth century, a young Englishman becomes involved in a blood feud which leads him to Constantinople and a totally different way of life.
The knowledge of herbs and healing that once prompted the villagers to stone him out of town eventually becomes the salvation for a crippled boy in twelfth-century England.
The well-known author of historical novels for young people describes her childhood and youth and her struggles with the devastating effects of rheumatoid arthritis.
The life of Boadicea (Boudicca), queen of the Iceni, who led them and other British tribes in a valiant but futile revolt against the Romans in 62 A.D.
A collection of excerpts from the works of such authors as A.A. Milne, Carlo Collodi, Ted Hughes, Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis, Donald Sobol, and Mark Twain.
A young girl witnesses the waning power of the Norse in their continuing conflict with the Normans in eleventh century England.
A young boy in pre-Roman England becomes chieftain of his tribe and learns just how much he must sacrifice for his people.
Six episodes chronicle the lives of a family in Roman Britain over three hundred years.
