In Uhtred, he has created one of his most interesting and heroic characters and in The Last Kingdom one of his most powerful and passionate novels. Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties, reluctant love and desperate heroism. It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants and of the enemies they faced, Viking warriors like Ivar the Boneless and his feared brother, Ubba. A master storyteller with a passion for history, his current bestselling series, THE LAST KINGDOM, is centred around the creation of England. Denied a work permit, he wrote a novel and has been writing ever since. Uhtred s story is as fantastic as it is gripping, and most importantly it feels realistic. Bernard Cornwell was born in London and worked in television until he met his American wife and moved to the US. The Last Kingdom, like most of Bernard Cornwell's books, is firmly based on true history. The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell, is a triumph of a novel it is historical fiction at its finest.

There, in the horror of the shield-wall, he discovers his true allegiance.

Marriage ties him further still to the West Saxon cause but when his wife and child vanish in the chaos of the Danish invasion, Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfred's kingdom. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtred's growing up. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. of violence and chases 50% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 10% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 30% How society works & physical descript.Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Britain is experiencing an uneasy calm after the Mercians have. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. The Flame Bearer: The tenth novel in the Last Kingdom series is another highly regarded novel.

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