
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Flame Bearer
About this book
The tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria’s Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia’s Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England’s greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago—and which his scheming cousin still occupies.
But fate is inexorable, and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he has sworn conspire to distract him from his dream of recapturing his home. New enemies enter into the fight for England’s kingdoms: the redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest and leads his armies south. Britain’s precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation. Yet Uhtred is determined that nothing—neither the new adversaries nor the old foes who combine against him—will keep him from his birthright.
“Historical novels stand or fall on detail, and Mr. Cornwell writes as if he has been to ninth-century Wessex and back.”
—Wall Street Journal
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map
- Place Names
- Part One: The King
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Part Two: The Trap
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Part Three: The Mad Bishop
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Part Four: The Return to Bebbanburg
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Epilogue
- Historical Note
- About the Author
- Books by Bernard Cornwell
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher