A good part of the book is set in the North East around Hadrian’s Wall (a powerful symbol) and a map is provided. It is a quest story involving a journey north to the land of the Picts to recover the lost standard of the Roman Ninth Legion. The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) is perhaps her finest work and exemplifies the psychological dilemmas that Rosemary Sutcliff brought to her novels. The Capricorn Bracelet comprises six linked short stories spanning the years AD 61 to AD 383, and Hadrian’s Wall features in the narrative. She sets several of her best-known works in Roman and Dark Age Britain, giving her the opportunity to write about divided loyalties, a recurring theme. “One of the most distinguished children’s writers of our times, Rosemary Sutcliff wrote over thirty books, some of them now considered classics.
It seems now to have disappeared from the web. There is some staining to the bottom edge of the book.One Alan Myers once compiled an ‘A to Z of the many writers of the past who had a significant connection’ with the North-East of England. Ahead of him was to lie more adventure, more excitement and more danger that he had ever known in the arena but as he rode north he only knew that he was Phaedrus the Gladiator no longer, for on his forehead was tattooed the blue and crimson device like a four-petalled flower that was the Mark of the Horse Lord.Ĭondition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear. He was to assume the identity of a man to whom he bore an extraordinary resemblance: Midir, heir to the kingdom of Dalriada and Lord of the Horse People and to carry out Midir’s vengeance against Liadhan, the treacherous Royal Woman of the tribe, who had usurped the throne. Soon he was to find himself riding north towards the wilds of Caledonia, on a strange mission. All around him Phaedrus the Gladiator could hear the triumphant shouts of the crowd and he knew that he had won his wooden foil and was free… But he had not left a life of chance behind him. Blood was staining the sand of the arena - the blood of his friend Vortimax whom he had just slain.
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