The Netflix series The Last Kingdom has taken the world by storm, and it’s actually based on the wildly popular novel series by Bernard Cornwell of the same name. It’s safe to say that the television ...

Toby Harnden meets Bernard Cornwell, the bestselling writer of adventure stories loved by both men and women, including the Sharpe series. Bernard Cornwell, Cape Cod. Bernard Cornwell has just ...

Thirty-five years after first tackling the Napoleonic Wars with the Sharpe series that made his name, Bernard Cornwell is returning to the era for his non-fiction début. He is going straight to the ...

This book, the sixth in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Stories series, is set during and immediately after the death of King Alfred the Great as the Saxons and the Danes prepare to slug it out ...

Bernard Cornwell has no sympathy for fools in positions of power, in real life or fiction. Today his target is clear, as he ponders the human need for escapism — a longing that has driven millions to ...

Bernard Cornwell takes his responsibility to his public seriously. "Never in the history of the world," he says, describing his recent experience at the Brazil Biennale, "has an elderly Anglo-Saxon ...

The Last Kingdom is airing on Netflix and fans were sad to hear season five will be the final instalment for the Anglo-Saxon drama. The show is a TV adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's series of novels, ...

In news that will delight his devoted readers (and, no doubt, his publishers) he reveals that his next book will revive his iconic hero Richard Sharpe. "I've always said that when I retire I'll write ...

The journey of TV’s best-loved Viking-era warrior will end at a pivotal moment in history — but his creator has revealed another favourite hero is to rise again in an epic novel adventure. Bernard ...

The creator of some of the most epic battle scenes on page and screen is nursing his own wounds, after costly skirmishing with a dreaded enemy. “I’ve been going through the valley of the shadow of ...

If Bernard Cornwell was born to write one book, this is it. No other historical novelist has acquired such a mastery of the minutiae of warfare in centuries past. No one else could hope to take ...

When you learned about Bunker Hill and Trenton and Yorktown in your 11th grade American history class, you probably didn't hear about the Penobscot Expedition. At least I didn't, and now I know why.