Caroline's choice: Dawn Wind by Rosemary Sutcliff
Ali's choice (first read in 2022, not 2002!): The Short Knife by Elen Caldecott.
Some books where a “commoner” becomes a prince:
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Horse and his Boy by C. S. Lewis
Caroline’s Rosemary Sutcliff books
Elen Caldecott’s website and Leaf, the journal of writing for young people
Caroline’s fan writing Reflections in the Shards edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
Thanks as always to Steve Vapour Trails for production support. Why not go and give his radio show a listen?
