An oath of loyalty.Two warring kings.A destiny he didn’t choose…An oath of loyalty.Two warring kings.A destiny he didn’t choose…England is in turmoil as Vikings and Saxons battle for territory. Rumours build about the fatal sickness of the King, and the country awaits an heir.A violent clash at sea forces the warrior lord Uhtred to lead his men from his Northumbrian fortress to London and plunge into the eye of the storm. For two kings claim the empty throne, and a new kingdom cannot be born without bloodshed.Uhtred’s sword will leave one king dead and the other victorious. But sometimes it is hard to know the will of the gods…‘Nobody in the world does this better than Cornwell’ LEE CHILDPraise for Sword of Kings:‘Cornwell’s skill [is] in ageing his warrior-hero, who now creaks as he fights and is haunted by those he has loved and lost’ The Times‘The master still adding to his wonderful Saxon Chronicles’ Sunday Times Magazine‘Legendary … excellent storytelling, as ever’ Sunday SportPraise for Bernard Cornwell:'Strong narrative, vigourous action and striking characterisation, Cornwell remains king of the territory he has staked out as his own' SUNDAY TIMES‘Like Game of Thrones, but real’ OBSERVER'Blood, divided loyalties and thundering battles' THE TIMES'A violent, absorbing historical saga, deeply researched and thoroughly imagined' WASHINGTON POST‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive’ George R.R. Martin‘Cornwell draws a fascinating picture of England as it might have been before anything like England existed’ THE TIMES‘He’s called a master storyteller. Really he’s cleverer than that’ TELEGRAPH‘A reminder of just how good a writer he is’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Nobody in the world does this better than Cornwell’ Lee ChildBernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since. He and Judy divide their time between Cape Cod and Charleston, South Carolina.• A Global brand – Bernard Cornwell is the author of over 50 novels published in 30 countries and 28 languages: he is the most successful and prolific historical novelist writing today• This is the twelfth novel in The Last Kingdom series which is now a major television series streaming on Netfllix, the third season of which premiered in late 2018• WAR OF THE WOLF, the eleventh book in this series, went straight to No. 2 in the Hardback fiction chart in Autumn 2018 and has now sold over 90,000 hardbacks• Bernard Cornwell has sold over 25 million books around the world• All the books in The Last Kingdom series have been Top Ten bestsellersCompetition: dunstan;emperor;imperium;cicero;Empire;pillars of the earth;column of fire;Kingsbridge;darien;shardlake;falcon;sparta;lancelot. by Wilbur Smith;Iggulden;Lee Child;Simon Scarrow;Ken Follett;patrick o’brian;c.s.;cs forester;c.j.;cj sansom;robert harris;Cornwall;George r r martin;robert harris;lee child.
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