![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His father was a Canadian airman, and his mother, who was English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. In this new chapter of the Saxon Tales series-a rousing adventure of courage, treachery, duty, devotion, majesty, love and battle, as seen through the eyes of a warrior straddling two worlds-Uhtred returns to fight once again for the destiny of England.Ĭornwell was born in London in 1944. Uhtred, believing he is cursed, must fend off one enemy while he tries to destroy the other. And the new foe is Sköll, a Norseman, whose ambition is to be King of Northumbria and who leads a frightening army of wolf-warriors, men who fight half-crazed in the belief that they are indeed wolves. The old enemy comes from Wessex where a dynastic struggle will determine who will be the next king. Of all his protagonists, however, none is as beloved as Uhtred of Bebbanburg.Īnd while Uhtred might have regained his family’s fortress, it seems that a peaceful life is not to be – as he is under threat from both an old enemy and a new foe. "Perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today" ( Washington Post), Bernard Cornwell has dazzled and entertained readers and critics with his page-turning bestsellers. ![]() Bernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series-"like Game of Thrones, but real" ( The Observer)-the basis of the hit Netflix television series The Last Kingdom. ![]()
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