Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) was a British novelist, best known as a writer of children's historical fiction.

Books

Eagle of the Ninth series

• The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) ilustrated by C. Walter Hodges
• The Silver Branch (1957) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• The Lantern Bearers (1959) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• Sword at Sunset (1963). This was not intended as a children's book.
• Three Legions (1980) is an omnibus edition containing the first three books.

Arthurian novels

• The Sword and the Circle (1979)
• The Light Beyond the Forest (1979)
• The Road to Camlann (1981)

Other children's novels

• The Armourer's House (1951)
• Brother Dustyfeet (1952)
• Outcast (1955) illustrated by Richard Kennedy
• The Shield Ring (1956)
• Warrior Scarlet (1957) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• Lady in Waiting (1957)
• The Queen Elizabeth Story (1958) illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
• Simon (1959) illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
• Rider of the White Horse (1959)
• Knight's Fee (1960) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• Bridge Builders (1961)
• Beowulf: Dragonslayer (1961) illustrated by Charles Keeping; retells the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf
• Dawn Wind (1961) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• The Hound of Ulster (1963) illustrated by Victor Ambrus; retells the story of the Irish hero Cúchulainn
• The Mark of the Horse Lord (1965) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• The Flowers of Adonis (1965)
• The Chief's Daughter (1967)
• The High Deeds of Finn Mac Cool (1967)
• A Circlet of Oak Leaves (1968)
• The Witch's Brat (1970)
• Tristan and Iseult (1971)
• The Truce of the Games (1971)
• The Capricorn Bracelet (1973) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• The Changeling (1974) illustrated by Victor Ambrus
• We Lived in Drumfyvie (1975) with Margaret Lyford-Pike
• Blood Feud (1976) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• Sun Horse, Moon Horse (1977)
• Shifting Sands (1977)
• Song for a Dark Queen (1978); retells the legend of the Celtic queen Boadicca
• Chronicles of Robin Hood (1978)
• Frontier Wolf (1980)
• Eagle's Egg (1981)
• Bonnie Dundee (1983)
• Flame-colored Taffeta (1986)
• A Little Dog Like You (1987) illustrated by Victor Ambrus
• The Shining Company (1990)
• The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup (1993) illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark. Also serialized in Cricket Magazine.
• Black Ships Before Troy (1993) illustrated by Alan Lee; retells the Iliad Also serialized in Cricket Magazine.
• Chess-dream in the Garden (1993)
• The Wanderings of Odysseus (1995)
• Sword Song (1997) published posthumously

Non-fiction

• Heroes and History (1966) illustrated by Charles Keeping
• Blue Remembered Hills (1983), an autobiography

Novels for adults

• Blood and Sand (1987)