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Does the fact that the The Last Kingdom inaugurates yet another series from Bernard Cornwell fill you with anticipation--or trepidation? His immensely popular Sharpe novels are, of course, the bedrock of the author’s popularity. But when readers learned that he was to abandon the redoubtable Sharpe for a Grail Quest series, there were those who invoked the ‘if isn’t broke, why fix it?’ rule. However, when Cornwell proved himself equally adept at conjuring a world of knights and savage combat, his Grail Quest series (the first book of which was Harlequin) soon established itself as another Cornwell winner. And here’s yet another series from the protean writer. Do we really need it? Yes, we do--it’s a safe bet that The Last Kingdom will prove that the author is seemingly capable of beginning an endless run of new novel sequences. As well as the impeccably plotted narrative, Cornwell has other fish to fry here: nothing less than a totally fresh look at a historical figure we think we know: Alfred the Great. Cornwell’s protagonist is Uhtred, caught in the conflict between the Danes and the English in the ninth century. He is born into the English aristocracy, but loses his parents at the age of ten and is raised in Viking fashion by a Dane. When massacres reign down on both sides, Uhtred is torn between his loyalties--and when his family disappears, a reckoning with a Viking chieftain is in the offing. Behind all this is the King, Alfred: complex, conflicted, and by no means the figure that the conventional history books render him. All of the customary Cornwell virtues are fully on display here.--Barry ForshawRead More

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    The Last Kingdom is set in the England of the ninth and tenth centuries. These were the years when the Danish Vikings had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms and when King Alfred his son and grandson fought back and won the freedom of the country again. ; The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred a dispossessed English nobleman. Captured as a child and raised by the Danes he now finds his allegiances divided. But the one thing he knows is that he wants to recover his father's land the fort by the wild northern sea that we now know as Bamburgh. ; Bernard Cornwell is a master of historical fiction and this new series looking with a fresh light at Alfred the Great his kingdom and his legacy will be as outstanding and as popular as the Grail Quest and the Warlord Chronicles. ; 'Cornwell is a virtuoso of historical fiction.' Sunday Telegraph ; 'Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year hail rain snow war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.' Daily Mail ; 'Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched.' Observer

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    Read by Jamie Glover. HarperCollins are delighted to announce that this bestselling, favourite author, following the triumphant conclusion to the Grail Quest series with the publication of Heretic, has embarked on a new medieval series.

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    Bernard Cornwell, John Nicholl, Jamie Glover

  • 0007192517
  • 9780007192519
  • Bernard Cornwell
  • 4 October 2004
  • HarperCollins
  • Audio CD (CD)
  • Abridged edition
  • Abridged, Audiobook, CD
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