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	<description>Rosemary Sutcliff: author of award-winning historical novels, children&#039;s literature and books, films, TV and radio scripts, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers.</description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff was inspired by crackpots in re-telling of Arthurian Legend &#124; Sword at Sunset</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/27/rosemary-sutcliff-was-inspired-by-crackpots-in-re-telling-of-arthurian-legend-sword-at-sunset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arthurian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sutcliff Discovery of the Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have posted today about education and Facebook! Time to return to more central matters &#8230; Late in her life, one interviewer asked Rosemary Sutcliff  about the sources which inspired her version of the Arthurian legend in her best-selling book Sword at Sunset. She recalled various, including: A wonderful book that I found in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7311&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling Rosemary Sutcliff readers and fans, all readers, and just the curious!</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/27/calling-rosemary-sutcliff-readers-and-fans-all-readers-and-just-the-curious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sutcliff Discovery of the Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[children's literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to nudge upwards the number of followers of (people who &#8220;like&#8221;) the Facebook &#8216;page&#8217; on Rosemary Sutcliff. Progress is slow. However the &#8216;viral effect&#8217; is moving in the right direction, whatever exactly it is. (I have yet to get my head around that, no doubt simple, metric). Filed under: Sutcliff Discovery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7307&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Gove does not include pupils as interested parties in National Currriculum</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/27/michael-gove-does-not-include-pupils-as-interested-parties-in-national-currriculum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sutcliff Discovery of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department for Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Gove]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is not about education (per se), but Rosemary Sutcliff &#8211; who in fact did not go to school until about ten years old, and left at fourteen, but who was passionate about engaging and exciting young people and children. She would, I suspect, have found  it unsurprising but depressing that the Secretary of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7296&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Cooper wins Edwards Award &#124; Did she read Rosemary Sutcliff?</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/26/susan-cooper-wins-edwards-award-did-she-read-rosemary-sutcliff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[children's literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Margaret A. Edwards Award is new to me. It honours an author for &#8220;significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature&#8221; and is organised by the young adult division of the American Library Association. The 2012 winner is Susan Cooper for The Dark Is Rising series:  Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7285&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Rosen on children writing and Rosemary Sutcliff writing for children</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/25/michael-rosen-on-children-writing-and-rosemary-sutcliff-writing-for-children/</link>
		<comments>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/25/michael-rosen-on-children-writing-and-rosemary-sutcliff-writing-for-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autobiography & Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Rosen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The wonderful Michael Rosen writes eloquently at his blog  about the limitations imposed upon children (and teachers) by the national curriculum and SATs regime. If I want to make myself distressed &#8230; all I need to do is focus on the kind of writing that English Year 6 children are asked to write, re-write and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7278&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Kane, historical novelist, favourite author Rosemary Sutcliff &#124; Interview in The Independent</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/24/ben-kane-historical-novelist-favourite-author-rosemary-sutcliff-interview-in-the-independent/</link>
		<comments>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/24/ben-kane-historical-novelist-favourite-author-rosemary-sutcliff-interview-in-the-independent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Influence and Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Eagle of the Ninth Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Choose a favourite author, and say why you admire her/him Rosemary Sutcliff. I was probably no older than nine or ten when I read &#8216;The Eagle of the Ninth&#8217; and it had a huge influence on me; it&#8217;s one of the reasons I ended up writing about Rome. I was so struck by her imagery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7281&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Rosemary Sutcliff translates so well into German</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/24/why-rosemary-sutcliff-translates-so-well-into-german/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anjy posted a fascinating comment at the You Write! page about how well Rosemary Sutcliff&#8216;s style translates into German, and about her powers of description. I have been addicted to Sutcliff’s book for about 40 years now. I have read everything by her in German and a lot in English and she is one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7270&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Arthurian legend hold essential truth for difficult times? &#124; Yes, said Rosemary Sutcliff in 1991</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/22/does-the-arthurian-legend-hold-essential-truth-for-difficult-times-yes-said-rosemary-sutcliff-in-1991/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arthurian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autobiography & Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sword at Sunset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Ages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Arthur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young adult fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some two decades ago, Rosemary Sutcliff, author of best-selling historical novel Sword at Sunset, suggested that : &#8220;The Arthurian legend contains an essential truth, and I think at present we&#8217;re awfully uncertain of our future.Therefore we feel a kind of kinship for the Dark Ages; and I think for this reason we feel in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7262&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Rosemary Sutcliff&#8217;s books a conscious series? No it just happened</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/19/are-rosemary-sutcliffs-books-a-conscious-series-no-it-just-happened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting post today from Anne at the &#8216;You Post&#8217; tab on this site, about the connectedness and origins of Rosemary Sutcliff&#8216;s stories and books of historical fiction. Anthony’s earlier mention of the 1991 interview with John Withrington got me hunting out my copy for a re-read. We’ve also recently discussed the chronology of the novels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7254&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Warhorse but The Roundabout Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/15/not-warhorse-but-the-roundabout-horse-by-rosemary-sutcliff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sutcliff Discovery of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Roundabout Horse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sunflower is a special roundabout horse. Although made from wood, he has real feelings and Jenny is a very special girl. When she rides Sunflower, something magical happens. A little story from Rosemary, but I love it. And I have always thought there was animated film also struggling to get out &#8230;. Filed under: Sutcliff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7246&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s approach to Europe informed by reading Rosemary Sutcliff?</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/10/is-prime-minister-david-camerons-approach-to-europe-informed-by-reading-rosemary-sutcliff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Silver Branch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my more fanciful moments I find myself wondering whether, in his dealings with Europe, David Cameron may have taken some inspiration from Carausius in Rosemary Sutcliff&#8216;s historical novel The Silver Branch?  (Rosemary Sutcliff&#8217;s uncle Harold Lawton did live out his later years in Peasemore, the Berkshire village Cameron grew up in &#8230; but then we would all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7234&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff&#8217;s The Mark of the Horse Lord loved by Cornish writer Anna Maria Murphy</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/07/cornish-and-kneehigh-heatre-and-radio-4-write-anna-maria-murphy-loved-sutcliff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reader's Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Mark of the Horse Lord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered in 2010 that renowned Cornish writer Anna Maria Murphy was a great fan of  Rosemary Sutcliff, author of children&#8217;s books and historical fiction. Anna writes for  Theatre, as well as radio. As a girl and a young woman, Rosemary Sutcliff was my absolute favourite writer and The Mark Of The Horse Lord one of my favourite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=848&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff &#124; Award-winning historical and children&#8217;s novel</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/07/the-mark-of-the-horse-lord-by-rosemary-sutcliff-award-winning-historical-and-childrens-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Mark of the Horse Lord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like the sudden opening of a cavern in his head, reality burnt upon Phaedrus, and in that ice-bright splinter of time he understood at last that this was a fight to the death, that he was fighting, not his comrade Vortimax, whom he had fought scores and hundreds of times before, but death, red-rending death [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7208&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lantern Bearers &#124; Carnegie Medal winner 1957</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/06/the-lantern-bearers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sutcliff Discovery of the Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that we stand at sunset … It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again … We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7202&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff chuffed at Kindle e-books? &#124; Giselle Greene thinks so</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/06/rosemary-sutcliff-chuffed-at-kindle-e-books-giselle-greene-thinks-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sutcliff Discovery of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I posted (see below) a few days ago about Rosemary Sutcliff&#8216;s The Eagle of the Ninth being in the top five Kindle e-book sellers (at that point). I failed at first to notice that at Number 1 was Giselle Greene. She posted a comment, which led me to ask her what she thought  Rosemary might have made of Kindle. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7191&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rotten Tomatoes on The Eagle film</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/03/rotten-tomatoes-on-the-eagle-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sutcliff Discovery of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Eagle (of the Ninth) film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Sutcliff Discovery of the Day, The Eagle (of the Ninth) film<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7181&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff a Philip Reeve favourite</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/02/the-eagle-of-the-ninth-by-rosemary-sutcliff-a-philip-reeve-favourite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Influence and Inspiration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Reeve, author of the Mortal Engines Quartet (Mortal Engines, Predator’s Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain), told the The Book Base that some of his favourite books when he was a child were: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien; The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, The Owl Service [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7175&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff&#8217;s autobiography Blue Remembered Hills recalls service life</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2012/01/02/rosemary-sutcliffs-autobiography-blue-remembered-hills-recalls-service-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autobiography & Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of last year I posted about historical novelist and children&#8217;s writer Rosemary Sutcliff&#8216;s autobiography Blue Remembered Hills. I noted that a reviewer on the Amazon site - intriguingly at Leicester University in the town where I write this &#8211; wrote a decade ago:   This is a fascinating book on several levels. First [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7169&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff interviewed in The Independent newspaper in 1992 by Giselle Greene</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2011/12/31/rosemary-sutcliff-interviewed-in-the-independent-newspaper-in-1992/</link>
		<comments>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2011/12/31/rosemary-sutcliff-interviewed-in-the-independent-newspaper-in-1992/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research & Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Independent (UK)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is good to know people are buying and reading Rosemary Sutcliff books (see here), especially on the Kindle. Curiously, the bestselling e-book on Kindle is by Giselle Green, who just before Rosemary&#8217;s death in 1992 wrote for The Independent newspaper an insightful article based on an interview at Rosemary&#8217;s  home in Walberton. &#8220;It was in the Great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7140&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff selling better than Tolkein&#8217;s The Hobbit and War Horse!</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2011/12/31/the-eagle-of-the-ninth-by-rosemary-sutcliff-selling-better-than-tolkeins-the-hobbit-and-war-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And this! Filed under: Sutcliff Discovery of the Day<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7157&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff&#8217;s The Eagle of the Ninth a Top Five Kindle e-book seller!</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2011/12/31/rosemary-sutcliffs-the-eagle-of-the-ninth-a-top-five-kindle-e-book-seller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed this too! And have only just realised, from a comment posted here, that best selling book is by the Giselle Green who wrote so insightfully  in The Independent of an encounter with Rosemary in 1992, which I have just posted! Filed under: Sutcliff Discovery of the Day<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7152&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff&#8217;s The Eagle of the Ninth top of Amazon Children&#8217;s Books bestsellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Penelope Lively made a Dame in New Year&#8217;s Honours &#124; Friend and admirer of Rosemary Sutcliff</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2011/12/31/penelope-lively-made-a-dame-in-new-years-honours-friend-and-admirer-of-rosemary-sutcliff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to author Penelope Lively, who is made a Dame in the New Year&#8217;s Honours List. Perhaps best known for her Booker-winning novel Moon Tiger, she was a friend and admirer of Rosemary Sutcliff and gave a eulogy for her at the memorial service in the year of Rosemary&#8217;s death which I organised at St [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7128&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff&#8217;s children&#8217;s and historical fiction classic The Eagle of the Ninth on Kindle for 99p!</title>
		<link>http://rosemarysutcliff.com/2011/12/30/rosemary-sutcliffs-childrens-and-historical-fiction-classic-the-eagle-of-the-ninth-on-kindle-for-99p/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon are selling Rosemary Sutcliff&#8216;s classic historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, for the Kindle in the UK for 99p! In the US it is $1.54! This classic of children&#8217;s literature is still relevant and readable today, and is a bargain for all you new Kindle owners who can be tempted by historical fiction (or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7121&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemary Sutcliff&#8217;s The Eagle of the Ninth sells same value of paperbacks as J K Rowling&#8217;s Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of this blog will know I have today been much entertained, even detained, by the Guardian published figures for books sold last year 2011. Playing around with the spreadsheet revealed for example that the value of all the paperback copies of Rosemary Sutcliff&#8216;s The Eagle of the Ninth  sold (in two versions) was about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosemarysutcliff.com&amp;blog=964736&amp;post=7117&amp;subd=rosemarysutcliff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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