The Shining Company

The Shining Company is based on Y Gododdin, which I didn't know before I started reading it. Obviously, that quickly became clear once we started into the story, and it quickly eclipsed the small, domestic, human life that opened the story. Leaving the woman who has been centrally important so far b......more

What I love about Rosemary Sutcliff, is that she finds those obscure little moments in history and can make a brilliant story out of them. Every time I read one of her books, I say it's my favorite, and I've just come to the conclusion that all her books are equally good. I loved this story because......more

ENGLISH: Based on real events, which happened around the year 600, the novel tells the adventure of the Shining Company, made up of three hundred knights and six hundred squires, who carried out a hopeless attack against the Saxons who threatened their territory and thereby gained a few years of res......more

This is yet another Sutcliff masterpiece. The book almost reads itself and in many ways it is written in a simpler style than she uses in her other works - most certainly in a far simpler style than Sword at Sunset, also written in the first person, but then again Prosper is not Artos. The story its......more

I think I've overdosed on Sutcliff. And yet I find that I have no regrets.......more