Recent Reading
Bernard Cornwell - The Pagan Lord I've just finished Bernard Cornwell's "The Pagan Lord" - I bought this for my Kindle with a birthday Amazon voucher my sister kindly gave me. I like Cornwell's stuff and have read most of his books except any of the Sharpe series for some reason. This latest one was the continuation of his Warlord series with Lord Uhtred the pagan lord of the title. Uhtred has had an interesting life - a fictional character set against the reign of King Alfred and then afterwards. This is afterwards with Edward on the throne of Wessex but a move by the Danes in the north of Britain to push south and take the dream of a united England away again. Uhtred has been banished after a disagreement with the Christian church has led to him kill an Abbot. But with a small band he disrupted the Danish plans and becomes again the hero of the Saxons. Great read with much terrific research by Cornwell in to a time when little is truly known of ...