Collect Eagles Honour Conceived By Rosemary Sutcliff Volume

can't go wrong with Sutcliff, Two short stories here and both excellent, Two well written short stories about life with the Eagles in Britain, This would be a good book to read before Eagle of the Ninth as it talks about the ninth legion before it was lost.
Two very short stories for young readers compiled into one volume, My copy had lovely accompanying sketches, They didn't really feel like Sutcliff to me, but I do recommend them both, Eagle's Egg is maybe the only unreservedly happy Sutcliff story I've encountered so far Two linked stories although written thirteen years apart set in Rosemary Sutcliff's favoured territory of late Roman Britain.
Although these are minor entries in the Sutcliff canon they are full of the things that make her writing so special: an immediate sense of place and time, beautifully wrought sentences that describe sensation and experience in just a few words, engaging characters and an ability to keep the story moving at a fast pace.
A volume of two short stories set in Roman Britain, displaying all of Sutcliffs usual mastery of atmosphere and characterisation.
A Circlet of Oak Leaves is a rather sad story about loss, bitterness, and the cost of living a lie.
Eagles Egg, on the other hand, is a very nice piece which somehow mixes a sweet romance with Agricolas Caledonian campaigns ikr, and features a hero who manages to quell a mutiny by in his words making a bad joke at the right moment.
Quintus is My Kinda Guy tbh! It also adds to the lore of the Ninth Legion in Sutcliff's version of Roman Britain.
Secondcentury Roman Britain is the setting for epic battle, high drama, bravery and romance in these two stories for young readers.


A Circlet of Oak Leaves gradually reveals the mystery behind humble horsebreeder Araco's award for outstanding bravery, and Eagle's Egg follows the story of Quintus, a young standardbearer, determined to be promoted so that he can marry the girl that he loves.
Rosemary Sutcliff, CBE was a British novelist, best known as a writer of highly acclaimed historical fiction, Although primarily a childrens author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults, She once commented that she wrote for children of all ages from nine to ninety, Born in West Clandon, Surrey, Sutcliff spent her early youth in Malta and other naval bases where her father was stationed as a naval officer.
She contracted Stills Disease when she was very young and was confined to a wheelchair for most of her life.
Due to her chronic sickness, she spent the majority of her time with her mother, a tireless storyteller, from whom she learned many of the Celtic and Saxon legends that she would later expand into works of Rosemary Sutcliff, CBE was a British novelist, best known as a writer of highly acclaimed historical fiction.
Although primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults, She once commented that she wrote "for children of all ages from nine to ninety, "Born in West Clandon, Surrey, Sutcliff spent her early youth in Malta and other naval bases where her father was stationed as a naval officer.
She contracted Still's Disease when she was very young and was confined to a wheelchair for most of her life.
Due to her chronic sickness, she spent the majority of her time with her mother, a tireless storyteller, from whom she learned many of the Celtic and Saxon legends that she would later expand into works of historical fiction.
Her early schooling being continually interrupted by moving house and her disabling condition, Sutcliff didn't learn to read until she was nine, and left school at fourteen to enter the Bideford Art School,

which she attended for three years, graduating from the General Art Course.
She then worked as a painter of miniatures, Rosemary Sutcliff began her career as a writer inwith The Chronicles of Robin Hood, She found her voice when she wrote The Eagle of the Ninth in, In, she won the Carnegie Medal for The Lantern Bearers and was runner up inwith Tristan and Iseult.
Inshe was highly commended for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, Her The Mark of the Horse Lord won the first Phoenix Award in, Sutcliff lived for many years in Walberton near Arundel, Sussex, Inshe was appointed OBE for services to Children's Literature and promoted to CBE in, She wrote incessantly throughout her life, and was still writing on the morning of her death, She never married. sitelink sitelink.