Anthony Lawton has alerted me to his
blog about classic historical novelist
Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992), to whom so many of us owe our fascination with history. Please go there for all the latest links to Rosemary Sutcliff, her books - and of course the forthcoming film of
her best-known novel,
The Eagle of the Ninth.
Anthony, by the way, is Rosemary Sutcliff's godson and cousin.
See also this
blog on Rosemary Sutcliff.