The Last Kingdom · Book 10
The Flame Bearer
- Published
- 1 January 2016
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN-13
- 9780062250827
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 304 pages, The Flame Bearer (2016) is the tenth novel in The Last Kingdom, sitting between Warriors of the Storm and War of the Wolf. Uhtred's decades-long pursuit of his birthright, the fortress at Bebbanburg, moves closer to resolution as the series heads into its final stretch.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
The Flame Bearer is book 10 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows Warriors of the Storm. It is followed by War of the Wolf. 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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