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Invisible Ink: No 155 - Rosemary Sutcliff
York :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Suggested Topics It was an author's dream; in 1866 a vicar was taking part in an excavation near Silchester in Hampshire when he found a small bronze eagle, then thought to be from a Roman legionary standard. Suppose it was lost by the Ninth Spanish
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Sword at Sunset, By Rosemary Sutcliff
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Suggested Topics Rosemary Sutcliff is most famed for Eagle of the Ninth, but there was much more to her than that. In the 1950s, historically-minded children found her books a magic carpet into the past. I began with Brother Dustyfeet (1952) and The
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Roman stories required
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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These Roman fighters are in fashion in fiction as well as film. I'm looking for any recent children's fiction set in ancient Rome for children aged 10 and up. I'm already a fan of Rosemary Sutcliff but would be particularly interested in any stories
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Emily Watson as social worker Margaret Humphreys in Oranges and Sunshine. The ironically upbeat title of Jim Loach's impressive and arresting feature debut, Oranges and Sunshine , (2010, Icon, 15) refers to the bright new future promised to British
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DVD: The Eagle (12)
London :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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There's something old-fashioned about Kevin Macdonald's adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 Roman yarn The Eagle of the Ninth. Eschewing the CG-saturated action of recent big-budget sword'n'sandal epics, the former documentarian strives for
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Andrew Miller's top 10 historical novels
London :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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The Gallery Collection/Corbis Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997...It was followed by Casanova (1998), a fictional portrait of the infamous libertine and writer...His next novel, Oxygen (2001), was set in contemporary
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What non-fiction can tempt a girl who only likes fiction?
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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Facts served cold are often less appetising than fiction but there is plenty of gripping narrative and semi-narrative non-fiction around, such as Terry Deary's Horrible Histories Julia Eccleshare A punchy approach to non-fiction .....Photograph: BBC
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Whatever happened to the handsome book? | Ursula Wills-Jones
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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Books used to be objects of beauty but these days many are sugary, bland monstrosities, particularly those aimed at women Books as they used to be: handsome, solid and designed to be kept in perpetuity. Photograph: Tetra Images/Corbis A while ago I
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Rereading: Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth
York :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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In Reading Museum among tantalising treasures including a silver spoon declaring itself to be the property of a long-lost girl called Primania, and a roof tile into whose not-yet-dry clay someone scratched half a line of Virgil's Aeneid is a little
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In praise of… Rosemary Sutcliff | Editorial
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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Favourable reviews of Kevin MacDonald's newly released film The Eagle are spinning over into renewed sales of the book on which it is based, Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 children's classic The Eagle of the Ninth . Still in print more than 50 years on,
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