The Last Kingdom · Book 8
The Empty Throne
- Published
- 23 October 2014
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780062250711
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Empty Throne (2014, 400 pages) precedes Warriors of the Storm as the eighth novel in The Last Kingdom, set in the period after Alfred the Great's death as his heirs carry on the struggle to unite England. Uhtred's shield-wall battles and his divided Danish-Saxon loyalties remain the series' engine.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
The Empty Throne is book 8 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows The Pagan Lord. It is followed by Warriors of the Storm. 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…
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