The sixth installment of Cornwell’s Saxon series (after The Burning Land) returns to the days before there was an England—or an English sense of fair play—when Saxons, Danes, and Vikings, Christians ...

09:11, Wed, Aug 19, 2020 Updated: 09:12, Wed, Aug 19, 2020 The Last Kingdom is a historical drama series on Netflix which was inspired by Anglo-Saxon history. The series is also based on a set of ...

Following the huge success of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the BBC is ready to get medieval on your (ahem) television screen. In a press release, BBC America announced that Carnival Films, which produced ...

NEW YORK, July 11 (UPI) --The Last Kingdom, a small-screen adaptation of novelist Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories, is to go into production this fall, BBC America announced. The first season of the ...

“The Pagan Lord” is the seventh installment of the Saxon Tales, Bernard Cornwell’s ongoing account of the creation of the country that would one day be known as England. Like its predecessors, the ...

Arthurian literature may be a worldwide cottage industry, but Cornwell, author of the Sharpe series of historical military adventures (Sharpe's Battle, etc.) stands out from the crowd with this ...

When you begin a new book, what comes first, plot or characters? 95 per cent of a book is finding a plot. I never know what’s going to happen and for me, one of the joys of writing is finding out what ...

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