Sword Song
- Published
- 1 September 2007
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780008146542
- Type
- novel
About this book
The fourth book in The Last Kingdom, Sword Song (2007, 384 pages) sits between The Lords of the North and The Burning Land, continuing Uhtred's fight through Alfred the Great's fifty-year struggle to hold England's Saxon kingdoms against the Danes. The huge, unglamorous shield-wall violence that defines Cornwell's Sharpe novels carries straight through to this instalment.
Key facts about Sword Song
Bernard Cornwell wrote Sword Song, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 September 2007. The book has 384 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780008146542 to find the main one.
Sword Song is book 4 of 14 in The Last Kingdom series. The series has 14 published books. However, the series starts with The Last Kingdom (2004). Uhtred's Feast: Inside the World of The Last Kingdom is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 25 May 2023.
Additionally, Bernard Cornwell writes Sharpe, The Crowning Mercy Trilogy and The Sailing Thrillers, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our historical fiction, thriller and historical fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Sharpe's Storm is the latest published Bernard Cornwell book on file, from 21 October 2025.
About Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell is a British author of historical adventure fiction, best known for immersing readers in the physical detail and moral complexity of pre-modern warfare. His breakout Sharpe series follows Richard Sharpe, a low-born British soldier rising through the ranks during the Napoleonic Wars, and became a household name in Britain thanks to the long-running ITV adaptation starring Sean Bean. See every Bernard Cornwell book in order.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
Sword Song is book 4 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows The Lords of the North. It is followed by The Burning Land. See the full The Last Kingdom reading order.
The Last Kingdom (published in the UK as The Saxon Stories, then The Warrior Chronicles) is Bernard Cornwell's account of the making of England, narrated by Uhtred of Bebbanburg — a Northumbrian nobleman's son captured and raised by Vikings as a boy, who grows up caught between two loyalties: the Danes who taught him to fight and love, and the Saxon kingdoms of his birth. It opens in 866, as Danish armies are overrunning England one kingdom at a time, and follows the fifty-year fight to stop them, centred on…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061379741
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007219735
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061566646