Search - List of Books by Rosemary SUTCLIFF

Eagle of the Ninth series (novels linked by the Aquila family dolphin ring)

• The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
• The Silver Branch (1957) illustrated by Charles Keeping.
• Frontier Wolf' (1980)
• The Lantern Bearers (1959) illustrated by Charles Keeping.
• Dawn Wind (1961) illustrated by Charles Keeping.
• Sword at Sunset (1963)
• Sword Song (1990)
• Shield Ring (1956)
• Three Legions (1980) is an omnibus edition containing the first three books (to be reissued in 2010 under the title "Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles")

Arthurian novels

• Sword at Sunset (1963) also a part of the Eagle of the Ninth series
• The Sword and the Circle (1979)
• The Light Beyond the Forest (1979)
• The Road to Camlann (1981)

Other children's novels

• Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950)
• The Queen Elizabeth Story (1950) illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
• The Armourer's House (1951) illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
• Brother Dustyfeet (1952)
• Simon (1953) illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
• Outcast (1955) illustrated by Richard Kennedy.
• The Shield Ring (1956)
• Warrior Scarlet (1958) illustrated by Charles Keeping.
• Knight's Fee (1960) illustrated by Charles Keeping.
• Bridge Builders (1960)
• Beowulf: Dragonslayer (1961) illustrated by Charles Keeping; retells the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
• The Hound of Ulster (1963) illustrated by Victor Ambrus; retells the story of the Irish hero Cúchulainn.
• The Mark of the Horse Lord (1965) illustrated by Charles Keeping.
• A Saxon Settler (People of the Past series) (1965)
• The Chief's Daughter (1967)
• The High Deeds of Finn MacCool (1967), illustrated by Michael Charleton.
• A Circlet of Oak Leaves (1968)
• The Witch's Brat (1970)
• Tristan and Iseult (1971)
• The Truce of the Games (1971)
• Heather, Oak, and Olive contains three dramatic stories: "The Chief"s Daughter," "A Circlet of Oak Leaves," and "A Crown of Wild Olive" (originally published as "The Truce of the Games") (1972).
• The Capricorn Bracelet (1973) illustrated by Charles Keeping (a collection of six inter-connected short stories, following several generations of Roman soldiers serving at Hadrian's Wall from the 1st to the 4th centuries)
• The Changeling (1974) illustrated by Victor Ambrus.
• We Lived in Drumfyvie (1975) with Margaret Lyford-Pike.
• Blood Feud (1976) illustrated by Charles Keeping.
• Sun Horse, Moon Horse (1977)
• Shifting Sands (1977)
• Song for a Dark Queen (1978); retells the legend of the Celtic Queen Boudica.
• Eagle's Egg (1981)
• Bonnie Dundee (1983)
• Flame-coloured Taffeta (1986)
• The Roundabout Horse (1986) illustrated by Alan Marks.
• A Little Dog Like You (1987) illustrated by Victor Ambrus.
• The Best of Rosemary Sutcliff (1987) contains Warrior Scarlet, The Mark of the Horse Lord, and Knight's Fee in one volume.
• The Shining Company (1990) retells the events described in the Celtic poem Y Gododdin.
• The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup (1993) illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark. Also serialised in Cricket Magazine.
• Black Ships Before Troy (1993) illustrated by Alan Lee; retells the Iliad. Published posthumously. Also serialised in Cricket Magazine.
• Chess-dream in a Garden (1993) published posthumously.
• The Wanderings of Odysseus (1995) published posthumously.
• Sword Song (1997) published posthumously.

Non-fiction

• Rudyard Kipling (1960); a monograph.
• Heroes and History (1965) illustrated by Charles Keeping.
• Blue Remembered Hills (1983); an autobiography.

Novels for adults (in chronological order by period)

• The Flowers of Adonis (1969) Set in ancient Greece- about the brilliant but erratic Athenian general Alkibiades and the Peloponnesian War
• Sword at Sunset (1963) A story of King Arthur as the Romano-Celtic warrior prince he might really have been. Set in post-Roman Britain.
• Lady in Waiting (1957) Set in Tudor England- the story of Bess Throckmorton, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh
• Rider of the White Horse (1959) Set in 17th century England during the Civil Wars period- a novel about Parliamentarian general Sir Thomas Fairfax and his wife Anne, who traveled on campaign with him.
• Blood and Sand (1987) Set during the Napoleonic Wars period, about real-life Scottish soldier, Thomas Keith, who converted to Islam after being captured by the Turks in Egypt, taking the name Ibrahim Aga, and becoming in 1812 governor of Medina.

• Blue Remembered Hills (1983); Sutcliff's memoir of her youth.
• Rosemary Sutcliff: Henry Z Walck, Inc., New York (1962); a brief biographical monograph by Margaret Meek.