Entries tagged with rosemary sutcliff

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Once and future kings

Wow,

valderys has written this gorgeous fic at my bidding, Morning Out of Darkness. It's a crossover between Merlin and my favourite Rosemary Sutcliff novel, The Lantern-Bearers (which is also - in part - a retelling of the Arthurian story). Really beautiful. Thank you so much,

valderys!

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Blood Feud

I picked up Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff at the weekend, in the Old Children's Bookshop in Edinburgh, on the excellent advice of

katlinel. I read it on the train home, and I think that it may possibly be just a tiny bit slashy...?

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Five moments in post-Roman Britain

As part of the recent "Five Things" meme that went around, I asked

forodwaith for five moments in the life of Aquila (the hero of Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern-Bearers) that we did not see in the book.

And

forodwaith has written these beautiful, melancholy vignettes. I am extremely lucky.

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Books

Good pickings in town today, including one of the Dolphin Rings books by Rosemary Sutcliff that I was missing, The Silver Branch, and the bookshop owner taking pity on me when I came up to the till with a pile and then saw the one I'd gone if for (he knocked 50p off).

Got Brendan Kennelly's Glimpses: very short poems, no more than a few lines, vernacular and sharp and funny:

( Home by Brendan Kennelly )