Rosemary Sutcliffe (sic), Laurens Van de Post ( – ), Rebecca West ( – ). The full list was Beryl Bainbridge ( – 2 July 2010), John Betjeman ( – ), Malcolm Bradbury (7 Sept 1932 – ), Anthony Burgess (25 Feb 1917 – 22 Nov 1993), Margaret Drabble, Lawrence Durrell ( – ), John Fowles, Leon Garfield ( – ), William Golding (19 Sept 1911 – ), Graham Greene ( – ), Ted Hughes ( – ), John Le Carre, Laurie Lee, Rosamund Lehmann ( – 12 March 1990), Iris Murdoch ( – ) , V.S. The Times – then (and now?) a paper of record – covered the group, but sadly mis-spelled Rosemary Sutcliff as Sutcliffe (sic) with an E. So said acclaimed writer Noel Streatfield-she of Ballet Shoes & much more besides-about Rosemary Sutcliff and the bookįorty-one years ago the Book Marketing Council published a list of who they judged to be the 20 greatest living British authors. “Here is an author who writes with great distinction…Simon is a book that I recommend with all my heart”. Now there is just a cobbled mound in the church-yard where it is said that those who died in the explosion were buried in a mass grave. Most of the people I’ve written about really lived Torrington church really did blow up, with 200 royalist prisoners and their Parliamentary guard inside, and no one has ever known how it happened, though the chaplain Joshua Sprigg left it on record that the deed was done by “one Watts, a desperate villain”. In this story I have tried to show what the final campaign in the west was like, and re-fight the battles fought over my own countryside.

“Most history books deal with the final campaign of the Civil War in a single paragraph, and the Battle of Torrington they seldom mention at all. historian Christopher Hill) call the English Revolution. It deals with aspects of the English Civil War(s) (1642-51), what some (e.g. Simon, (1953) by Rosemary Sutcliff, is one of her early books of historical fiction & children’s literature.

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