Praise for The Lords of the North:

?Beautifully crafted story-telling, complete with splendid set-piece battles and relentless derring-do, so gripping that it rarely stops to catch a breath. It demonstrates once again Cornwell?s enormous skill as a historical narrator. He would have graced Alfred?s court entertaining the guests with his stories? Daily Mail

?Cornwell takes the spectres of ninth century history and puts flesh back on their bones. Here is Alfred's world restored ? impeccably researched and illuminated with the colour and passion of a master storyteller.?
Justin Pollard, author of ?Alfred the Great?

Praise for Bernard Cornwell:

'Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation' Daily Mail

'Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched' Observer

ENGLAND IS BORN.

BBC2?s major TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell?s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. The Lords of the North is the third book in the series.

Season 2 of the epic TV series premiers this March.

The year is 878. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, fresh from fighting for Alfred the Great, must journey north with a band of men to avenge his father, who has been cut down by the Danish lord Kjartan, Uhtred?s oldest enemy.

But the north is a realm of chaos, rebellion and bloody retribution. As he plans his revenge attack, Uhtred is betrayed and ends up on a slave voyage to Iceland. Friends and alliances must unite to free him, and fight once more in the battle for England.