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Harlequin
Bernard Cornwell has a new series entitled "The Grail Quest" and "Harlequin" is the first book in the series. Thomas of Hookton is the son of a village priest and his housekeeper. The book opens with an attack on the English village by pirates from France. Thomas is the only survivor and vows to avenge his parents' death and recover the religious relic stolen from the church. He joins the army of King Edward III as an archer and goes to France to fi...
Lords of the North
Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his adopted brother Ragnar take revenge on their father's murderer, Kjartan, and his son, Sven. The year is 878 A.D. and Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg tires of fighting for a king he dislikes. Unhappy with his meager reward after saving Alfred's kingdom at the Battle of Ethandun, Uhtred leaves his family in Wessex and journeys north to Northumbria to retake his home castle of Bebbanburg from his usurping uncle Aelfric. Uhtred...
Sharpe's Eagle
Sharpe's Eagle is the story of a British soldier in the Battle of Talavera during the Napoleonic Wars who captures a French Eagle battle standard. Sharpe's Eagle is the story of a British soldier in the Battle of Talavera during the Napoleonic Wars who captures a French Eagle battle standard. The main character in the book, and the series, is Richard Sharpe, a lifer British Soldier who rose from the ranks to become an officer in the British Army during ...
Sharpe's Havoc
HarperCollins, Apr 2003, 25.95, 306 pp. ISBN: 0060530464 In 1809 in the Iberian Peninsular, though isolated from his side's main forces, Richard Sharpe and his unit defend Oporto, Portugal from Napoleon's armies. The city and the surrounding area are home to the famous red wine and numerous influential English red wine-exporting families. His superior Captain Hogan assigns Richard to keep safe the House Beautiful wine heiress Kate Savage and k...

Cornwell booklist

Sharpe's Tiger
In 1799, British infantry soldier Richard Sharpe is in the hot and deadly land of India, fighting against the Tippoo Sultan. In a dangerous mission to spy on the Sultan's forces, he and Lieutenant Jack Lawford and his sweetheart, Mary Bickerstaff, set off in the desert as deserters. Enduring a dangerous encounter with Indian soldiers, they are taken to the great fortress, where the Sultan's favorite method of torture and death are the deadly man eating ...
Sharpe's Trafalgar
Sharpe participates in a sea chase from India to Europe. The chase culminates in the Battle of Trafalgar with Sharpe in the thick of it. A great naval story in the wooden ships and iron men mode. ...
Sharpe's Triumph
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Sword Song
Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg is charged with fortifying the city of London that sits on the strategic Temes Estuary between Saxon Wessex and Danish Mercia. During the last decade of the ninth century in England, Alfred the Great commands his heathen warlord Uhtred of Bebbanburg to conquer and fortify the strategically important City of London against further Danish invasion. Uhtred, the protagonist, is firmly if grudgingly entrenched in Alfred's service. He...
The Burning Land
Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg is a man caught between two worlds. By the year 892 A.D., he is firmly entrenched as the prime warlord of Alfred the Great even though his heart still resides with Danish Vikings who raised him. At the onset of Cornwell's fifth Saxon Story, Uhtred is living with his wife Gisela and two children in Wessex. He serves there as the protector of London. At this time, Alfred is beset by a second great Danish invasion, led by Jarl ...
The Last Kingdom - Saxon Chronicles 1
The young Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg must navigate the conflict between his native Saxons and the Danes who captured and raised him in ninth century England. The story is told from the first-person POV of the protagonist, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. When Uhtred's sickly older brother dies, he becomes the heir to Bebbanburg, a fortress in Northumbria now known as Bamburgh Castle. The story is set at the end of the ninth century in England, at a time when the fou...

Bernard Cornwell list of books

The Pale Horseman
The year is 876 A.D. and the protagonist, the dispossessed Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg, finds himself estranged from the Danes who raised him and grudgingly sworn to King Alfred of Wessex, the only Saxon king that history would award the title "The Great." Alfred and Uhtred have an uncomfortable alliance. Alfred is a man of peace and a devout Christian, while Uhtred is a vicious warlord raised by Danish Vikings and loyal to the pagan gods. Regardless of...
The Winter King
This is an Arthurian legend told from the point of view of one of the soldiers. All the usual cast of characters is involved but personalities differ from other stories. A lot of fighting and big battles, war leaders hurling (really hilarious) insults and druids dancing around cursing each other. This is the first book in a series of four - it is mostly concerned with the trying to keep the saxons out of the country and trying not to kill each other i...
Waterloo: Sharpe's Final Adventure Campaign
British rifleman Richard Sharpe re-joins the Army and takes part in the Battle of Waterloo. Before he can face the armies of Napoleon he must deal with his unfaithful wife and her cowardly lover. A great novel!...