The Rider of the White Horse and weather

[bunn]

I have finally managed to find a copy of Sutcliff's "The Rider of the White Horse" about Thomas Fairfax (a man who I am delighted to discover, is also called Black Tom. I bet Sutcliff will give him a dog. Black Tom's Dog! For £2.50! There are second hand copies floating around still but most of them seem to be at least twenty quid and often

Comments

[ningloreth]

Is that 'Cromwell's boss' Fairfax?

(I'm reading 'Frontier Wolf' at the moment).

[bunn]

The same! I'm not terribly good on the Civil War, if I'm honest. But I have read her 'Simon' which has some Fairfax bits, and that was quite good, so I'm giving it a go.

Yay, Frontier Wolf! One of the best ones I reckon.

[ningloreth]

Do you like Marjorie Bowen, btw? I love her writing, but she doesn't seem to have a following on LJ.

[timetiger]

Glad you haven't been washed away. Fie upon weather, say I.

[bunn]

Fie! and Bah! to it. ( I just hope it doesn't 'bah' back. Soo bored of rain now...)

[carmarthen]

Oooh, I liked the bits of Fairfax in Simon, so I'm very curious what Rider is like!

[bunn]

I've been looking out for it for ages!

[ladyofastolat]

Given what you go on to say about floods, your statement that second-hand copies are "floating around" is making me envisage a post-apocalyptic drowned world, in which the very tip of Big Ben peeps out of the flood water, a few damp and shrivelled survivors cling to their shattered lives in high places... and copies of obscure Rosemary Sutcliff novels float by in the endless flood water, poignant echoes of a world that is gone.

[bunn]

Sounds like an essay question : "in the pre-deluge world, were Rosemary Sutcliff novels *already* a poignant echo of a world that was gone...?"

[wellinghall]

Yay for cheap 2/h books! :-)