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By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9780099582571
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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You may think you know all about King Arthur, the young boy who plucked the sword from the stone. You've probably heard stories about Merlin's magic powers and the Knights of the round table. These are the stories we learn at school. But they are just the beginning.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781849417914
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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In this thrilling re-telling 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-drake.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950929
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 way to Constantinople.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950875
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 Claverhouse and his Lady Jean: first as the stable-lad and in later years, as galloper to Claverhouse.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9780099354215
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 1995
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 1995
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 joins them, becoming part of their acting troupe.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9780099353911
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 1995
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Two Rosemary Sutcliff adventures set in Roman Britain. "A Circlet of Oak Leaves" gradually reveals the mystery behind a humble horse-breeder's award for outstanding bravery, and "Eagle's Egg" follows the fortunes of a young standard-bearer, seeking promotion so that he can marry the girl he loves.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950899
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Damaris Crocker had not lived her twelve years in smuggling country without knowing when a Run was planned. .

With over forty books to her credit, Rosemary Sutcliff is now universally acknowledged one of the finest writers of historical novels for children.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950905
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd December 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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. The Frontier Wolves who man this outpost in the far north of Roman Britain are a fierce and savage bunch, a far cry from the regular legions he'd served in before.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950912
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 30th December 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 who is wagered and won in a game of chess between a lord and a minstrel . . .


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950936
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 friends must put their friendship to the test.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950943
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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. Then Emperor Nero rules that the royal line of the Iceni is to be ended, and Boudicca knows this is one battle she cannot afford to lose .


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9780099795605
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 1991
UK Publication Date: 20th June 1991
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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From the moment he is born, Lubrin Dhu is different and his unusual talent for drawing places him even further apart. So when his tribe is conquered and Lubrin is appointed its mouthpiece, he is treated with the utmost suspicion. And why does he make a horse - a huge horse, high up on the hillside, cut out of the chalk


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9780099354017
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 1994
UK Publication Date: 17th March 1994
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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If only she'd been born a boy, Tamsyn would never have been sent away to Uncle Gideon's - the armourer's - house when her grandmother died.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950998
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 Romans from Britain. Set at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain, they follow the fortunes of one family over three hundred years.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950882
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 Nottingham and Guy of Gisborne.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950981
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 call to the world's end, and his enemies will shudder at the thunder of his chariot wheels.


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By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782951001
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 have been told in song and story since the middle ages.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782951018
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 have been told in song and story since the middle ages. In this book, the best and noblest of Arthur's Knights are lost in pursuit of the Grail, and the days of Camelot draw to their tragic close.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9780099855804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1991
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 the moon; Prosper and his loyal bondsman, Conn, answer the call of King Mynydogg to join a highly skilled army - the Shining Company.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782951025
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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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 have been told in song and story since the middle ages.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950974
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Banished from his home, as a boy, for a murder he didn't intend to commit, Bjarni takes up a new life as a mercenary. A life that will see him fighting among the clan chiefs in feuds as bitter and bloody as can be imagined.This enthralling novel was the last thing Rosemary Sutcliff wrote and was discovered in a drawer after her death.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950844
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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The Abbey of New Minster means safety to Lovel. And, he has nowhere else to go.

Then he meets Rahere, the Kings Jester, in the abbey and makes a bargain that will take Lovel to London, to establish a life of his own at the great hospital of St Bartholomew.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950950
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Rosemary Sutcliff's starkly simple retelling of the uniquely tragic and romantic story of the warrior Tristan and his love for the fair Iseult of Ireland, his uncle's chosen bride.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

ISBN: 9781782950967
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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But with a withered spear arm, how will he take part in the ritual Wolf Slaying which will prove his worth as a man of the tribe

With over forty books to her credit, Rosemary Sutcliff is now universally considered one of the finest writers of historical novels for children.

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