Books by Rosemary Sutcliff

The long siege of Troy is over, and the city is in ashes. Heroic King Odysseus can finally return to Ithaca, but the voyage home holds terrors far ... More

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Rescued as a baby from a shipwrecked Roman galley, Beric is raised in a British tribe but is never fully accepted by them. When disaster and bad ... More

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Violence and unrest are sweeping through Roman Britain. Justin and Flavius find themselves caught up in the middle of it all when they discover a ... More

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The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain for ever, abandoning it to civil war and the threat of a Saxon invasion. Aquila deserts his ... More

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'I saw riders with black eyesockets in glimmering mail where their faces should have been, grey wolfskins catching a bloom of light from the mist and ... More

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The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers are recognized as being three of the best novels about Roman Britain written for ... More

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The boy lay in the silence of the great battlefield, gazing at his own hand spread on the ground beside him. The hand moved and he realized, with ... More

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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.

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Discovered among Rosemary Sutcliff 's papers after her death in 1992, Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, banished from ... More

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Rooted in folklore, medieval ideals of chivalry, and the last gallant struggles of the British against the Saxon invaders, the legends of King Arthur ... More

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Rosemary's Sutcliff's absorbing collection of stories cover the fall of Londinium to the building of Hadrian's Wall, and the final departure of the ... More

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In A.D. 125, Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young Roman centurion, must recover the infamous Ninth Legion's missing symbol of honor, the eagle standard. ... More

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Set in the Lake District just after the Norman conquest, this book tells of the struggle of a Viking band to keep the Lake District free. Frytha ... More

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Phaedrus was used to taking risks. After all, he had earned his freedom from slavery only by fighting his way through the gladiators' school. Now he ... More

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A novel based on the life and campaigns of Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. When the Roman Emperor Nero rules that the royal line of the Iceni is to be ... More

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One of Rosemary Sutcliff's acclaimed books set in Roman Britain. The Eagle of the Ninth tells the story of a young Roman officer who sets out to ... More

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In disgrace after a mistake that had lost a fort and cost the lives of half his men, Alexios had just arrived in Castellum. Although it was his first ... More

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This is an autobiographical account of the influences and people who have helped Rosemary Sutcliff in her personal development as a writer. The ... More

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Retells the Celtic legend of the love between the warrior Tristan and Iseult, the wife of King Marc of Cornwall.

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Grendel prowled in, hating all men and all joy and hungry for human life. So swift was his attack that no man heard an outcry; but when the dawn came ... More

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The boy who takes up the spear and shield of Manhood on this day will become the most renowned of all the warriors of Ireland, men will follow at his ... More

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'Traitor! Now is your death-time upon you!' You may think you know all about King Arthur, the young boy who plucked the sword from the stone. You've ... More

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Set in the Iron Age, and based on the White Horse of Uffington in the Berkshire Downs, this is the story of Lubrhin Dhu.

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Jetsyn the Englishman had once been Thormod the Viking's slave, but after saving his life he became his sworn brother in the feud to avenge Thormod's ... More

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The third and final part of Rosemary Sutcliff's retelling of the Arthurian legend following 'The Sword and the Circle' and 'The Light Beyond the ... More

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