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Bernard Cornwell

April 2023

  • The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die. (L to R) Mark Rowley as Finan, Arnas Fedaravicius as Sihtric and Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred in The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023

    The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die review – gripping spin-off from Netflix show

    There’s a ton of plot packed into this standalone movie derived from the TV series, but the deluge of detail gets steadily more absorbing

October 2021

  • An independent bookshop in London … the Booksellers Association is urging customers to ‘shop early, shop local’ this Christmas.

    John le Carré, Daisy May Cooper and Paul McCartney expected to boost book sales at Christmas

    The annual event known as ‘Super Thursday’, when most of the hardbacks aimed at the Christmas market are published, promises big names and a boon for the industry

October 2020

  • Author Bernard Cornwell, on set as a character in the BBC/Netflix show The Last Kingdom, based on his bestselling book series

    Bernard Cornwell: 'I play merry hell with history, I admit it'

    The bestselling historical novelist talks about being a descendant of his Last Kingdom character Uhtred, and returning to his beloved hero Sharpe

October 2015

  • The Last Kingdom starring Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred.

    The Last Kingdom: episode by episode
    The Last Kingdom recap: series one, episode one – Saxon violence and Viking-sized drama

    Alexander Dreymon, Matthew Macfadyen and Rutger Hauer star in an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s novels. But is there enough to separate this BBC series from Vikings and Game of Thrones?
  • Bernard Cornwell said of his story: ‘I do see something modern in it – that we are all immigrants.’

    Bernard Cornwell: BBC made The Last Kingdom due to its 'interesting echoes of today'

    Author whose novels about King Alfred have been adapted for TV says his work deals with themes of nationhood and immigration under current debate
  • Game of Thrones is 'very,very dull', Sharpe author Bernard Cornwell has said

    Game of Thrones 'very, very dull', says Sharpe author Bernard Cornwell

    Writer behind new BBC drama The Last Kingdom says HBO fantasy epic is so plot-heavy it needs ‘sexplanations’ to keep viewers interested

May 2012

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    Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell – review

    The sixth of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series taps into a particular kind of male fantasy, writes Philip Womack

January 2011

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    Audio: Americana - reviews

    Sue Arnold's audiobook choice: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell, The Spoken Word: American Poets and The Great Gatsby

December 2010

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews

    Life on Air by David Attenborough | Hurrah for Hannay! by John Buchan | The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell | Life by Keith Richards

November 2010

  • Screen writers
    Bernard Cornwell on The Fort: 'Paul Revere failed completely'

    The author of the Sharpe novels tells Sarah Crown about his new book, The Fort, set during the American war of independence ... and why it hasn't gone down well in New England

October 2010

  • Sharpe

    Bernard Cornwell: Britain's master of historical fiction is big in Rio

    From the Sharpe books to Arthurian sagas, the prolific output of Bernard Cornwell has topped bestseller lists around the world

October 2008

  • Agincourt wins battle of bestsellers

    Novel by Bernard Cornwell commemorates the English triumph at the Battle of Agincourt

May 2008

  • War story

    Richard Rogers on Sword Song

June 2005

  • 'I just tell stories'

    Bernard Cornwell's historical thrillers have brought him fame and fortune. As his latest hits the shops, he tells Helen Pidd that writing them is a breeze - if you steal from the right novels.

January 2005

  • Fighting old battles

    Sue Arnold on The Last Kingdom | The Virgin's Lover

October 2004

  • Hits and myths

    Bernard Cornwell concocts a Saxon king fit for the 21st century in the first part of his Alfred the Great trilogy, The Last Kingdom.

July 2004

  • Audio

    Sue Arnold on Sharpe's Havoc | Scarecrow

July 2003

  • Read 'em and weep

    What makes a book a bestseller - and what do Britain's bestsellers say about us? Tim Adams read every novel in last week's top 10 list to see if there's quality as well as quantity in their 3,891 pages.

November 2002

  • The Bookseller

    Nicholas Clee on the latest news from the publishing industry

April 2000

  • What happens next

    Sequels are a nearly impossible genre. Writers who try to revisit imaginative territory in which, perhaps not five years before, they had a huge success, invariably seem to come unstuck.

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