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War Lord ( 2020) Regional Editions: The thirteenth book of The Last Kingdom series will be published in the UK on 15 October 2020 and in the US on 20 November 2020. An extract of the book is available below.
The Last Kingdom Series. The Saxon Stories tell the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants through the eyes of Uhtred, an English boy born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria, captured by the Danes and taught the Viking ways. To view an online map, click here.
- Early Life
- Career
- The Sharpe Series
- Sharpe’s Eagle
- Sharpe’s Gold
- Television Adaptation
Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944, as a child of war. His mother was a English citizen in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. His father was an airman for the Canadian airforce. But he was an “illegitimate” child and his parents put him up for adoption. Later Cornwell was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins of Thundersley, Essex. The Wiggins wer...
When he was a boy, Cornwell read C.S. Forester’s novels which chronicle the adventures of Horatio Hornblower, a fictional British navy officer in the Napoleonic wars. Motivated by a need to make a living, Cornwell decided to write a series about one of the characters, Lord Wellington, and his campaigns on land. He named his main character Richard S...
The Sharpe series was the first series undertaken by Cornwell. The first 11 books of the series involves Sharpe’ s adventures in the Peninsular War over 6-7 years. Cornwell decided to write a prequel quintet to the first 11 books – Sharpe’s Tiger, Sharpe’s Triumph, Sharpe’s Fortress, Sharpe’s Trafalgar, and Sharpe’s Prey. This quintet follows Sharp...
The first book in the Richard Sharpe series put Cornwell on the map. This gritty portrayal of the Napoleonic War set in Talavera introduces Captain Richard Sharpe. After a devastating defeat and the theft of their colors, Sharpe’s regiment begins to turn on him. He must fight to regain his honor and the loyalty of his men.
The second book in the Sharpe series finds sSharpe and his regiment in trouble when his regiment runs out of money and supplies. Their only hope lies in finding a Portuguese treasure. To do this, Sharpe might have to betray his men.
After publishing his first eight novels, Cornwell was approached by a production company about turning the Sharpe series into a television show. But they asked him to write another book so they would have a starting point for the television show. As a result, Cornwell wrote Sharpe’s Rifle. The television show was filmed for ITV. It starred Sean Bea...
- THE SHARPE SERIES. SHARPE’S TIGER. SHARPE’S TRIUMPH. SHARPE’S FORTRESS. SHARPE’S TRAFALGAR. SHARPE’S PREY. SHARPE’S RIFLES. SHARPE’S HAVOC. SHARPE’S EAGLE. SHARPE’S GOLD.
- THE WARLORD CHRONICLES.
- (THE ARTHUR BOOKS) THE WINTER KING. ENEMY OF GOD. EXCALIBUR.
- THE GRAIL QUEST SERIES. HARLEQUIN/THE ARCHER’S TALE. VAGABOND. HERETIC.
Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is a British-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe.
Bernard Cornwell has written 24 novels and three short stories starring Richard Sharpe. The first book Sharpe's Eagle was written in 1981, with Sharpe in Spain at the Talavera Campaign in 1809. The next seven books were written in order, up to Sharpe's Siege in 1814.
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As a child, Cornwell loved the novels of C.S. Forester, chronicling the adventures of fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars, and was surprised to find there were no such novels following Lord Wellington's campaign on land.
