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The first book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.

A hero will be forged from this broken land.

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In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people, Uhtred is a fierce and skilled warrior who kneels to no-one.

Alfred – Saxon, king, man of god – fights to hold the throne of the only land still resisting the pagan northerners.

Uhtred and Alfred’s fates are tangled, soaked in blood and blackened by the flames of war. Together they will change history.

Bernard Cornwell's book 'Sharpe's Command' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-10-30.

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The Last Kingdom
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March 20 2006
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12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
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'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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 20 2006
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 000721801X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007218011
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 210 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
Book 1 of 13 ‏ : ‎ The Last Kingdom
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Bernard Cornwell was born in London and worked in television until he met his American wife and moved to the US. Denied a work permit, he wrote a novel and has been writing ever since.

A master storyteller with a passion for history, his current bestselling series, THE LAST KINGDOM, is centred around the creation of England. It is also a major TV series on Netflix, with Bernard playing a cameo role in season three. The fourth season is currently being filmed.

He is also the author of THE GRAIL QUEST series, set in the Hundred Years’ War, THE WARLORD chronicles, set in Arthurian Britain, a number of standalone novels, one non-fiction work on Waterloo and the series with which he began, the SHARPE series.

For exciting news, tour and publication details, and exclusive content from Bernard visit www.bernardcornwell.net and like his author page on Facebook/Bernard.Cornwell

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Customers find the book excellent, fun, and a real page-turner. They describe the characters as fantastic and good stuff. Readers appreciate the historical context, insights, and clever dialog. They find the content entertaining, exciting, and brings to life the period with terrific historical detail.

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Customers find the book excellent, fun, and well-written. They say it's a real page-turner and the writing style feels realistic.

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Customers find the character likeable. They say it's a fantastic series that stays true to Bernard Cornwell's book. Readers also describe the book as one of the best historical fiction series ever.

"I loved the show and found out it was based on a novel...." Read more

"...the traditional emotional responses of; hate the bad guy, love the good guy. Things aren't simple and black and white, and i found that engaging." Read more

"...Cornwell makes Uhtred a very likeable character, as he is torn between his admiration for the Danes who raised him and his Anglo heritage...." Read more

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Customers find the historical fiction rooted in their perceived visions of our past. They appreciate the period-appropriate violence, historical insights, and clever dialog. Readers mention the book is based on actual events with characters taken from history. They enjoy how the story is told around a fictional character.

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Customers find the content entertaining and exciting. They say it brings to life the period with terrific historical detail and numerous Danes and Saxons. Readers also mention the Kingdom has a great pace, a healthy amount of period-appropriate violence, and the thrones are more accurate and equally bloody as Vikings.

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Francis A.
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Lewis Dodgson
A great book in one of Cornwell's best series. An antidote to Game of Thrones, more accurate and equally bloody as Vikings.
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This series, The Saxon Stories tell the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants through the eyes of Uhtred, an English boy born into into a brawling noble family in Northumbria, who lost his heritage to a rival. This is my favourite of Cornwell's several series. He really brings to life the period with terrific historical detail and numerous characters who feature in actual history. There is Cornwell's usual, perhaps excessively detailed violence, but it is great to read someone who pulls no punches and shows how gristly and desperate fighting and killing can be. The plotting and betrayals, alliances and schemes that are part of the shifts in power, are shown convincingly, and the battles and battle sites draw from the historical record. You clearly see the role of superstition and ancient superstitions in this world, and how Christianity inveighled its way into British life and power. The vanished Romans are also a presence. Uhtred frequently wondrs about these past people who built so much better than any in his time, and whose paintings and mosaics show a life that accepted pleasure in ways suppressed by Christanity For me, this is a excellent way to learn history, by first giving a personality to many of the figures, and showing this world through the eyes of an active, if fictional, protagonist.

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Bernard Cornwell knows how to write a story. Can't stop reading. I'm on book nine of thirteen.
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I started watching the show when the pandemic started and after that started reading books because I thought they would be as entertaining as the show. I was wrong. The books are much more entertaining! Bernard Cornwell is extremely talented story teller. Sometimes I'll read along to the audio book for the added personality and dramatic effect a narrator can give the characters and story as well to learn the pronunciation of the Anglo-Saxon and Old Danish and Norse words and names. Richard Armitage, the actor who played Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit narrates the third book The Lords of the North which I highly recommend. A British man named Matt Bates narrates the rest which are equally well done and entertaining. Buy it, rent it at the library or whatever. You won't regret it.

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Fantastic series!
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I was wary at first, as the first person dialogue didn't quite grab me , though as i went along it really captivated me, the writing style feels, realistic, for lack of a better word. Uhtred you prideful lovable earsling bastard.

I like the historical notes at the end as well.

Little did i know they made a show as well, i might never watch it for fear of butchery. Ahem, GoT.
Or maybe the temptation will be too great.

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Last Kingdom has a great pace, a healthy amount of period-appropriate violence
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Last Kingdom has a great pace, a healthy amount of period-appropriate violence, historical insights, and clever dialog. The characters and the setting disrupt the traditional emotional responses of; hate the bad guy, love the good guy. Things aren't simple and black and white, and i found that engaging.

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Uhtred in the time of Alfred
Reviewed in Canada on October 7, 2017
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Fascinated by the life of Alfred the Great, having grown up in Wantage, Berkshire where he was born. This novel takes you the the battles in the local places and Southampton, and Cornwall. A real page turner, I can see why it is so popular. I am anxious to start on the second book 📚 of the series. Cornwell makes Uhtred a very likeable character, as he is torn between his admiration for the Danes who raised him and his Anglo heritage. You really want to root for him. It is good to bookmark the List of Place names in pagan and modern English to skip back and forth. Much of the book is based on actual events with characters taken from history.

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Reviewed in Canada on December 1, 2024
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The first few pages of the book were not glued to the spine. I had to return it.

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Um Épico como nenhum outro
Reviewed in Brazil on June 3, 2015
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Para quem gosta das obras do Tolkien e da saga Game of Thrones fica difícil não gostar de Cornwell. Se em alguns momentos falta ação em senhor dos anéis, nas obras de Cornwell ela vem em grandes quantidades, sem deixa, com isso, de ter uma história que vale a pena seguir, no caso, a história de Uthred, o rei de direito de um reino no norte da Inglaterra, que, por força de um golpe familiar e da invasão dinamarquesa ao país, vai tentar a todo o custo tomar para si a terra da qual é dono. Algumas pessoas apontam o livro como machista por não hesitar em mencionar casos de estupro ou desrespeito às mulheres, trata-se, entretanto, de um relato datado por volta do ano de 840 D.C, ou seja, não há como esperar os costumes de hoje na obra. A mistura de ação, romance e aventura já são motivos suficientes para fazer o leitor não querer largar o livro, o melhor de tudo, entretanto, é a base factual de todos os relatos, ou seja, ao ler a história, ainda se aprende uma bela porção de história. O único alerta vai para aqueles que não gostam muito de se concentrar ou gastar vários minutos ininterruptos lendo um livro. A obra se divide em poucos capítulos, cujo tempo estimado de leitura figura entre 45 minutos 1 hora, ou seja, inevitavelmente será necessário dedicar-se ao livro. O que não será um problema, pois a obra se encarrega de prender a atenção do leitor.

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Young but battle wise.
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2025
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The storyline was about coming of age in a very violent time. The character development was truly unique. The birth of a new character and the dying or leaving of an old one was well done. It was truly a book that was hard to put down. The ending was awesome and I will continue to read this story.

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Produit livré en bon état et dans le délai annoncé 👍🏻

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Reviewed in Germany on January 20, 2019
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Interesting and unique voice--unmistakeably Uhtred. Told from his perspective after the events have passed, the simple, Polysyndeton flavored text is sprinkled with old English and Danish words, which are easily understood in the context. The matter-of-fact style doesn't go deep into emotions or physical descriptions of the events, rather into the character motivations with a general, political overview, fitting to the protagonist's viewpoint. The explanations end with powerful backloading (which repeats throughout the story) leaving the reader with strong emotions despite the fact that the narrator barely describes or mentions them. I admit it took me some time to read into this character, but once I did, I couldn't put the book down. It is very well written and a joy to read.

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Ottimo libro per gli amanti del romanzo (alto)medievale
Reviewed in Italy on February 24, 2016
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Lo consiglio a chiunque voglia leggere i libri senza passare attraverso a traduzioni, che per quanto ben fatte, a mio dire distorgono un po’ l’opera come è stata concepita. Come livello di complessità della lingua, in rapporto anche al numero di pagine del romanzo, lo trovo abbastanza leggibile per chiunque abbia un livello dall’upper intermediate in avanti. Persone con un livello di padronanza scritta pari ad un A2 potrebbero leggerlo, secondo me, ma più per un crocevia tra apprendimento e piacere della lettura (trovo che la grammatica non sia complessa di per sé, ma sono presenti idiomi e in generale lemmi non proprio di base).

La storia in sé non penso abbia senso commentarla perché esistono già molte recensioni in italiano che possono delucidare il potenziale lettore circa la qualità o i temi del testo. Posso solo dire, come da titolo, che il romanzo contiene tutti gli elementi atti a rappresentare bene i temi comuni un po’ a tutta la fascia del periodo altomedievale dell’Europa.

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