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The Lords of the North (The Saxon Chronicles, Volume 3)

1 review
Bernard Cornwell

BBC Audiobooks, 2007

Excellent performance! This is the version to have.
I've listened to all of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series in audiobook format (and read them in hardcover, too) and this is the best of them all. Richard Armitage's reading is vastly superior to the other narrators (Tom Sellwood, Jamie Glover, and Gerard Doyle). Mr. Armitage is a master storyteller. His narration does not sound like the book is being read (as it sometimes does in the other ...

Stonehenge

1 review
Bernard Cornwell

Edhasa, 2004

Mystical, magical, wonderful!
If you liked The Winter King trilogy you'll love this one too. As with his treatment of the tales of King Arthur, Cornwell skillfully weaves a story connecting what is known about the stone circles and their use as calendars and places of worship, involving characters that step out of the pages and tell a believable and intriguing srtory of the building of Stonehenge. Full of mystery, magic, war ...

WILDTRACK

1 review
BERNARD CORNWELL

TIME WARNER PAPERBACKS, 1992

Another Star for Cornwell
The first thing the reader becomes aware of is that Cornwell really knows sailing. He know all the terminology, and ins and outs of sail craft. His characters are plausible and appealing. The plot develops well and has some surprising twists. Bernard Cornwell is a master story teller. Anyone who loves the sea and adventure stories will love this book. Henry Stuart

Rebel: Library Edition

1 review
Bernard Cornwell

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2001

Starbuck Chronicles read by a wonderful narrator - Tom Parker
I finally tore myself away from my Sharpe's audiobooks and listened to the four (so far) audiobooks for the Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell and read by Tom Parker. I didn't think I'd be that interested in another Civil War story, but these are terrific. I've listened to all four several times now - unabridged. Mr. Parker does great accents and the characters just come alive. Rebel is ...

A Dorset Rifleman

1 review
Benjamin Harris

Shinglepicker Publications, 1995

Must Read for Napoleonic Fans
This is a unique book. It is one of the few memoirs of a line infantryman from the Napoleonic Wars. It is all the more interesting in that it is a soldier of the famous 95th Rifles. The original version was a stream of conciousness tome dictated by Rifleman Harris some years after the war. In was not in chronological order and could be quite confusing to all but the most informed student of the ...

Warlord Trilogy

5 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Macmillan Audio, 2001

Warlord trilogy
Bernard Cornwell sheds new light on the arthurian sagas and tells a tale of Arthur the man who was never a king who had no camelot and no knights in shining armour. instead he lead his warriors (with spears and lice-ridden jerkins) and fought against the saxons,(not evil knights). these books are a work of genius.

Growing Up Peculiar

2 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Amazon, 2006

Thank you for having the bravery to do this...
Bernard, I have to thank you for providing such a phenomenal glimpse into your background...for telling it with such gripping honesty and compelling genuineness. For some reason, I find there's a grand misconception swirling about the "reading community" that it's an abundantly simple step for authors to just dig deep into the well of their minds and talk about their earliest beginnings. ...

Sharpe's Sword

14 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1983

Magnificent episode in the Sharpe saga
Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series is one of the most beloved collective works in the sub-genre of historical fiction. Spanning over twenty novels (and counting!), Cornwell has treated his readers with thrilling battlefield and bedroom exploits from Flanders to India to Spain and France. While the novels have a definitive formula, they never grow stale. "Sharpe's Sword" is among the ...

Sea Lord (The Thrillers #2)

1 review
Bernard Cornwell

Penguin Group, 1989

Sea Lord
Sea Lord and Killer's Wake are one and the same book published under two diferent titles. Great book but no need to buy both.

Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1)

2 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2001

Some deaths in Venice
An audio version of a title apparently not in print format, Quietly in Their Sleep caught my eye on the shelves of the public library. I always enjoy Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti novels because she always tells a compelling story about good vs evil, morality vs venality, in the context of Brunetti's life as an incorruptible police officer and devoted husband and father. This particular story ...

The Pale Horseman

58 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

BBC Audiobooks, 2006

The Pale Horseman
Cornwell grabs the readers interest from the very beginning and doesn't let go until the last page! His books are so well written that the reader feels a pang of regret as he nears the end of each of his books.

Excalibur

74 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Book Club Associates, 1997

An EXCELLENT ending to a good trilogy.
This was a very good trilogy, but the finale, this book, was by far the best. The Winter King, book 1, and Enemy of God, book 2, were both well written, entertaining and interesting (I gave both 4 stars as they were good but not great), but this book finishes off the trilogy with war, carnage, destruction and misery; it had its good things too, but we are talking about dark ages England and what ...

The Last Kindom

100 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2005

GREAT SERIES FIND
I HAD ABOUT GIVEN UP ON CORNWELL COMING UP WITH A SERIES AND A CHARACTER AS GOOD AS SHARPE, BUT I DON'T ANYMORE. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT SERIES, DONE WITH TYPICAL CORNWELL LEVEL HISTORICAL ACCURACY AND GREAT CHARACTERS. I HAVE READ THREE OF THEM SO FAR AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE.

Enemy of God (Paragon Softcover Large Print Books)

57 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 1998

Derfel finds love, Arthur finds pain
After a hard fought victory at Lugg Vale, Arthur and Derfel hope for peace but alas it is not to be. In this second book in Cornwell's Warlord series the Arthurian legend continues. Derfel finds the love of his life and becomes a "Lord of War" while Arthur suffers his worst betrayal, and of course there is plenty of fighting. "Enemy of God" is a completely new chapter in the Arthurian legend ...

Sharpe's Rifles

47 reviews

Penguin, 2007

Sharpe finally takes command
This enjoyable sixth series entry appears to have been written before the previous five. (And after eight later ones.) It's fun watching Cornwell make it all fit, no mean feat. The writing crackles with newness, not having yet settled into a lower-key long-distance pace. We meet Sharpe - original readers really were meeting him for the first time - in Spain's northwest Galicia region in 1809. ...

Lords of the North (The Saxon Chronicles Series #3)

50 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

HarperCollins, 2007

A continuing saga
This is the third novel of the Saxon Chronicles, taking place during the time of King Alfred the Great. In this novel, King Alfred is back on the throne in Wessex, but has a tenuous grip. The Saxons and Danes still battle for control of Great Britain, with native Britons pushed back to the west, Scots on the north, Northmen/Danes occupying parts of Ireland, and conflicts between Christians and ...

Sword Song

44 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Harper, 2008

Cornwell is the best!
For those of you who have faithfully read the entire Sharpe series, and all the other series, you know full well that Bernard Cornwell is a master author who never fails to fully involve you in everything he writes. I've read other reviews about his books, and such carping, such trifling squabbles over insignificant details always amazes me. I have no trouble believing that any of those peole ...

Sharpe's Tiger

87 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006

Vultures, tigers and Sharpie - who could ask for more
It's 1799 in India, and Sharpe is 22, a private and thinking of deserting. His arch enemy, Hakeswill, is making his life a misery, and he is bored of the army routine of "hurry up and do nothing". Provoked into striking Hakeswill, Sharpe is flogged. After only part of the sentence is carried out, he's then offered a special assignment. From then on we are taken on a fast and furious ...

The Winter King (Penguin Audiobooks)

156 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Penguin Audiobooks, 1996

#! in The Arthur Books
The Winter King, first in the Arthur Books, started a wonderful five days of continuos reading. Not being able to put this book down did not apply because as soon as I put this book down there was a second and a third book to be devoured. It was a great five days of Camelot.

Sharpe's Triumph

48 reviews
Bernard Cornwell

Book Club Associates, 1998

Another great one
All I have to say is, "Incredible." I felt as if I was on the fronts lines of a British regiment and fighting side by side Sharpe.

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