The Last Kingdom · Book 5
The Burning Land
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780007219766
- Type
- novel
About this book
Following Sword Song, The Burning Land (2009, 336 pages) is the fifth novel in The Last Kingdom, continuing Uhtred of Bebbanburg's oath-bound service to a nation -- England -- that doesn't exist yet. It's part of the single, continuous thirteen-book arc Cornwell wrote start to finish, in publication order that matches the story's chronology.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
The Burning Land is book 5 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows Sword Song. It is followed by Death of Kings. 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
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