The Last Kingdom · Book 3
The Lords of the North
- Published
- 22 May 2006
- Pages
- 366
- ISBN-13
- 9780060888633
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Lords of the North (2006, 366 pages) is the third book in The Last Kingdom, sitting between The Pale Horseman and Sword Song. Cornwell keeps the series' visceral, ground-level battle scenes and Uhtred's divided loyalties -- Danish warrior instincts serving a devoutly Christian king he respects but never fully trusts -- at the centre of the story.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
The Lords of the North is book 3 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows The Pale Horseman. It is followed by Sword Song. 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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