Sarah Cuthbertson

• Age: 57
• Gender: Female
• Industry: Business Services
• Occupation: Airport-based Market Research Support
• Location: Crawley : West Sussex : United Kingdom

About Me

I live in the ancient parish of Worth on the beautiful High Weald of Sussex. I was brought up in Cheshire (Alderley Edge and Wilmslow, the former being Alan Garner country, the latter for nearly 2000 years the resting place of Lindow Man). I graduated in English Linguistics and Spanish from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1975, and married a Geordie. Despite having lived "down south" for half my life, my heart is still in the north country and I hope to live there again one day. My main interests are reading, history, the countryside and cooking, all of which I plan to blog about here. My favourite reading is historical fiction. My favourite historical periods are Ancient Rome and the eighteenth century. I also like to read non-fictional history, biography, popular science and the English classics. My current day job is in market research but I've also been a civil servant, literacy tutor, secretary, book reviewer and editor for the Historical Novel Society and a volunteer in the ongoing excavations at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in Northumberland.

Interests

• History (especially the Roman Empire and the 18th century)
• Reading (especially historical fiction
• biographies
• popular history and popular science)
• Roman archaeology
• Food and Cooking
• Walking
• the British countryside

Favorite Movies

• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Bridget Jones's Diary
• Four weddings and a Funeral
• The Pink Panther films
• Sliding Doors

Favorite Music

• Van Morrison
• Jackson Browne
• Runrig
• Capercaillie
• early Bruce Springsteen
• Carmina Burana
• almost anything by Handel

Favorite Books

• Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
• The Man on a Donkey by HFM Prescott
• All of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series
• The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
• Boswell's Life of Johnson
• Pepys's Diary
• The Pickwick Papers
• Paul Scott's Raj Quartet

Blogs

	Blog Name	Team Members
	Rosemary Sutcliff: an appreciation	Sandra Sandra Alex Bordessa
	sarah's bookarama