Rosemary Sutcliff

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1950
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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About the Author

Rosemary Sutcliff was a novelist from the United Kingdom known for her historical books for children mostly.

Born: 12-14-20
Died: 7-23-92

Full Series List in Order

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

1 - The Sword and the Circle (1981)
2 - The Light Beyond the Forest (Nov-1979)
3 - The Road to Camlann (Sep-1982)

The Roman Britain Trilogy

1 - The Eagle of the Ninth // Eagle (Nov-1954)
2 - The Silver Branch (Feb-1957)
3 - The Lantern Bearers (Feb-1959)

Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • The Queen Elizabeth Story

  • The Chronicles of Robin Hood

    A classic tale of adventure and bravery charting the transformation of Robert of Locksley into Robin Hood, the outlaw of myth and legend. Join Robin and his band of Merry Men as they battle injustice and seek to defeat the villainous Sheriff of N...

  • Brother Dusty Feet

    Along with his faithful dog Argos, eleven-year-old Hugh Copplestone decides to leave his Aunt and Uncle's house after one beating too many, and heads for Oxford to seek his fortune. When he meets a group of strolling players along the way, Hugh jo...

  • Simon

    It had never seemed important during their boyhood that Simon Carey was for Parliament and his friend Amias Hannaford a royalist. But when Civil War breaks out, they find themselves fighting on different sides. Finally the day comes when the frien...

  • The Eagle of the Ninth // Eagle

    The Roman Britain Trilogy - 1

    In 119 A.D., the Ninth Roman Legion marches north into the wilds of Britain--and disappears without a trace. Fifteen years later, Marcus Flavius Aquila, the son of the unit's commander, embarks upon a quest to recover the lost eagle standard of the N...

  • Outcast

    From author Rosemary Sutcliff, author of the classic tale The Eagle of the Ninth, comes Outcast, the tale of an orphan boy in the ancient world. When a Roman ship is wrecked off the coast of Britain, an infant, Beric, is the only survivor, saved by m...

  • The Shield Ring

    Bjorn and Frytha share a bond, both orphans and survivors of Norman attacks on their homes in the Lake country. Growing up together in Jarl Buthar's Norse stronghold, they become fast friends, with Bjorn dreaming of becoming a harper like his father....

  • Warrior Scarlet

  • The Silver Branch

    The Roman Britain Trilogy - 2

    Rosemary Sutcliff’s Carnegie Medal-winning Roman Britain Trilogy continues more than a century after the events of The Eagle of the Ninth (The Eagle) in The Silver Branch as two cousins join the Roman side in the fight against a tyrannical British ...



  • The Lantern Bearers

    The Roman Britain Trilogy - 3

    Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers is the winner of the 1959 Carnegie Medal in Literature. The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain forever, abandoning it to civil war and the threat of a Saxon invasion. Aquila, a young Legionna...

  • Knight's Fee

    Randall is an unloved and unwanted orphan kennel boy at Arundel Castle. And then, one fateful day, he upsets the new Lord's mettlesome horse.Against the violent and turbulent backdrop of Norman England, Sutcliff tells the moving story of a young boy ...

  • Dragon Slayer // Beowulf

    In this thrilling retelling of the Anglo-Saxon legend, Rosemary Sutcliff recounts Beowulf's most terrifying quests: against Grendel the man-wolf, against the hideous sea-hag and, most courageous of all, his fight to the death with the monstrous fire-...

  • The Sword at Sunset

    This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness desce...

  • The Hound of Ulster

    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 call to the world's end, and his enemies will shudder at the thunder of his chariot wheels. So the a...

  • The Mark of the Horse Lord

    "There was a smell of blood mingling with the smell of burning that still clung about scorched timber and blackened thatch, and a great wailing rose from the watching crowd. The old High Priest dipped a finger in the blood and made a sign with it on ...

  • The High Deeds of Finn MacCool

    Set more than a thousand years ago in the soft green hills of Ireland, in a shifting time when enchanted creatures and the Fairy Kind still flickered in and out of the lives of men, the ancient stories of Finn MacCool and the brotherhood of the Fiann...

  • The Witch's Brat

    The Abbey of New Minster means safety to Lovel. It is the reign of Henry I in England, and the monks protect Lovel from the people who think that, because of his crooked back and healing skills, he must be a witch. And, he has nowhere else to go. The...

  • Tristan and Iseult

  • Heather, Oak, and Olive

    "For a child poised between Harry Potter and Tolkien, there really is nothing better than Sutcliff." -- The New Yorker

    "Rosemary Sutcliff is a spellbinder." -- New York Times Book Review

    "The preeminent master of British historical fic...



  • Blood Feud

    Jestyn the Englishman had once been Thormod the Viking's slave, but after saving Thormod's life he became his shoulder to shoulder man and sworn brother in the deadly blood feud to avenge Thormod's murdered father, a feud that would take them all the...

  • Sun Horse, Moon Horse

    Sun Horse, Moon Horse is the story of Lubrin Dhu, third son of the Chieftain of the Iceni - the Early Iron Age horse people, who live by their skill in breeding and driving their great horse herds on the high chalk downs. As a child, Lubrin sees t...

  • Song For A Dark Queen

    From the day Cadwan fashioned a sword from a willow wand and composed a victory song for his young mistress, Boudicca, he has loyally charted her rise to Queen. Boudicca is the strong and brave leader of the Iceni tribe - courageously guiding her peo...

  • The Light Beyond the Forest

    King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - 2

  • Frontier Wolf

    'We are the scum and the scrapings of the Empire. They tipped out the garbage-bin of the Eagles to make us what we are.'In disgrace after a mistake that cost the lives of half his men, Alexios arrives in Castellum. It's his first command, but it isn'...

  • The Sword and the Circle

    King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - 1

    His kingdom was magical, his knights were loyal, and his life was filled with adventure.... young Arthur Pendragon became High King of England the instant he pulled the mysterious sword from the stone. He unlocked the magic within the sword Excali...

  • The Road to Camlann

    King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - 3

  • Bonnie Dundee

    It is seventeenth-century Scotland, and the Covenanters - those wanting religious freedom from the dictates of English rule - are gathering strength. Hugh Herriott, fresh from a Covenanting background, finds himself working for redcoat Colonel Claver...

  • Flame-Colored Taffeta

    Damaris Crocker, a young girl living in smuggling country, whose dearest wish is for a flame-colored taffeta petticoat, works with her friend Peter and Genty Small the Wise Woman to save the life of a wounded young man brought to them by the smuggler...

  • Best of Rosemary Sutcliff



  • The Shining Company

    Life is secure and peaceful for young Prosper, second son of Gerontius, until the day Prince Gorthyn arrives with his hunting party. Prosper's unusual daring in the hunt catches the prince's attention, and he promises to make Prosper his shield-be...

  • Blue Remembered Hills

  • Black Ships before Troy

    Homer's epic poem, The Illiad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. In it, the abduction of the legendary beauty, Helen of Troy, leads to a conflict in which even the gods and goddesses take sides and intervene. It is in the Troja...

  • The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup

  • Chess-Dream in a Garden

  • Road to Camlann: A Reissue

    Can the Fellowship of the Round Table survive Mordred's treachery?

    After years of Arthur's fair rule, evil has come to Camelot. Mordred, Arthur's illegitimate son, is determined to destroy the Round Table and gain the throne for himself. He wi...

  • The Wanderings of Odysseus

    For Greek myth fans, those who can’t get enough of the D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, and readers who have aged out of Rick Riordan, this classroom staple and mythology classic is perfect for learning about the ancient myths!
     
        Kin...

  • Sword Song

    Discovered among Rosemary Sutcliff 's papers after her death in 1992, Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, banished from his home for unintentionally killing a man, who takes up a new life as a mercenary.

    ...

  • The King Arthur Trilogy

    The legends of King Arthur and his knights have passed down through the generations since medieval times. In this spellbinding trilogy, Rosemary Sutcliff recreates all the mystique and mystery of the golden age of Camelot for a new generation....

  • Beowulf: Dragonslayer: A Reissue

    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, thirty of Hothgar's best and noblest thanes were missing. Only Beowulf, foremost among warriors,...



  • Dawn Wind

    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 something like surprise, that he was not dead. His name was Owain and further up the hillside lay his fa...

  • Flame-Coloured Taffeta: A Reissue

    Damaris Crocker had not lived her twelve years in smuggling country without knowing when a Run was planned. This night smugglers would bring more than just the usual contraband of brandy and lace. They would bring adventure, romance and danger in the...

  • The Iliad

    Homer''s epic poem The Iliad is retold in a dramatic story by acclaimed storyteller Rosemary Sutfcliff. Alan Lee''s powerful images hauntingly recreate the age of heroes in this captivating introduction to the Greek classic.

    ...

  • Odyssey: A Classic Reissue

    Rosemary Sutcliff's thrilling retelling of Homer’s epic tale, The Wanderings of Odysseus, is now available in an exciting new format. For this dramatic sequel to her Kate Greenaway Award -- winning Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff has tr...

  • Beowulf, Dragon Slayer: A Reissue

    In this thrilling retelling of the Anglo-Saxon legend, Rosemary Sutcliff recounts Beowulf's most terrifying quests: against Grendel the man-wolf, against the hideous sea-hag and, most courageous of all, his fight to the death with the monstrous fire-...

  • The Armourer's House

  • The Capricorn Bracelet

  • The Chief's Daughter

  • Eagle's Honor

  • The Sword Song Of Bjarni Sigurdson



  • The Flowers of Adonis

    From the internationally acclaimed author of The Eagle of the Ninth...The epic story of Greece’s most controversial hero.Pirate. Politician. Traitor. Lover.In the fifth century BC, against the background of perpetually warring Greek city-states, on...

  • Blood and Sand

    ‘An astonishing, exciting story with great imaginative power’ Daily Telegraph Homeland meets Sharpe in this classic adventure from Rosemary Sutcliff.Based on a true story.1807, Egypt. It is the height of the Napoleonic Wars. 6,000 British soldier...

  • The Changeling

    Tethra is not like the other children in his village. Fourteen years ago, he was left on the banks of a river, swapped by the Hill Folk for a human woman's child, replacing the seventh son of Conan. Murna chose to raise him as her own, despite the di...

  • Shifting Sands

    On prehistoric Orkney, the village of Skara Brae has been built among the dunes, nestled in the sand. Ruled by the tyrannical Long Axe, the villagers watch the weather and the sands, in fear of their home being buried.Blue Feather is twelve when Long...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rosemary Sutcliff has published 53 books.

Rosemary Sutcliff does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Changeling, was published in April 2022.

The first book by Rosemary Sutcliff, The Queen Elizabeth Story, was published in January 1950.

Yes. Rosemary Sutcliff has 2 series.
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