Wherever I (Rosemary Sutcliff’s godson) have written — which you draw on in this really fascinating and useful reproduction of the text of an article new to me (I think) —that her favourite newspaper was The Times, I made a mistake. I should have written The Daily Telegraph! For i know so well from frequently staying at her home in Walberton, Sussex, that she used in the mornings to pottle down the wooden corridors of her single story house to stand leaning on her walking stick at her writing table in her study, reading the day’s (obviously paper in her days) edition spread out in front of her.