**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** The next installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series coming to Netflix in Fall 2016. From the da
The Flame Bearer
β Scribed by Bernard Cornwell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 000821879X
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β¦ Synopsis
The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. Britain is at an uneasy peace. After their bloody defeat of Danish-held East Anglia, the West Saxons stand victorious while the Mercians have taken back their land on the border of Northumbria, the last kingdom of Britain still ruled by the pagan northmen. A precarious truce exists between ΓthelflΓ¦d's Mercia and Northumbria, now ruled by Uhtred of Bebbanburg's son-in-law, Sigtryggr. Under the cover of this fragile calm, Uhtred must begin his campaign that will end with the assault on Bebbanburg, the great fortress that is rightly his and was stolen from him in childhood. But his plans are shattered when the Scots surge down and lay claim to the north of England, as the West Saxons, under Uhtred's old enemy, Γthelhelm, invade Northumbria from the...
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