The Netflix series The Last Kingdom has taken the world by storm, and it’s actually based on the wildly popular novel series by Bernard Cornwell of the same name. It’s safe to say that the television ...

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 ...

BERNARD CORNWELL, 73, is the author of the Sharpe novels which were made into a TV series starring Sean Bean. His books about Saxon England, The Last Kingdom, have also been adapted for television.

Firstly, Cornwell is reviving one of his most beloved characters: Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the Saxon warlord who carves a bloody ...

Thirty-five years after first tackling the Napoleonic Wars with the Sharpe series that made his name, Bernard Cornwell is returning to the era for his non-fiction début. He is going straight to the ...

Bernard Cornwell, one of the world’s bestselling historical novelists, author of more than 50 books with 25 million sales around the world, recently came out with 'Sharpe's Assassin' - the book 21 in ...

Bernard Cornwell is to publish a new title with HarperCollins set in the Elizabethan period in a "dramatic new departure" for the author. Taking a break from his "highly popular" Last Kingdom book ...

Bernard Cornwell reveals he is retiring his favourite hero, Uhtred from The Last Kingdom, but another will be back after a 15-year absence from the bloodstained blockbusters that made his name.

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 ...

The Saxon saga continues in the latest historical fiction from Bernard Cornwell. Keeping to the timeline, "The Empty Throne" has the Danes almost done and the soon-to-be English beginning the process ...

Praise be to Saint Oswald, Lord Uhtred has finally reached Sharpe status. For more than three decades English expatriate Bernard Cornwell has been one of our finest writers of historical fiction. His ...