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The Pale Horseman written by Bernard Cornwell performed by Jonathan Keeble on CD (Unabridged)

The Pale Horseman written by Bernard Cornwell performed by Jonathan Keeble on CD (Unabridged)£19.99

A Saxon raised by Vikings. A pagan fighting for a Christian King. The conflict at the heart of a hero will be played out in the fight for England. It is 877. Across the kingdoms of Britain the Danes are gaining strength. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a pagan warrior, must decide who he will align with: the Vikings who raised...

The Last Kingdom - Book 1 written by Bernard Cornwell performed by Jonathan Keeble on Audio CD (Unabridged)

The Last Kingdom - Book 1 written by Bernard Cornwell performed by Jonathan Keeble on Audio CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9780062457028
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Historical Adventure
Duration:  810 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Bernard Cornwell
Narrator 1:  Jonathan Keeble

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Caught up in the power struggle between two kings, powerless to stop the bloodshed and compelled to take a side, this is a powerful tale of loyalty, war and the struggle to survive. The first book in a brand-new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy...

, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at 10, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. 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.

The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtred's growing up. 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.

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

The Last Kingdom, like most of Bernard Cornwell's books, is firmly based on true history. 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.

Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties, reluctant love, and desperate heroism. 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.

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