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The Flame Bearer: The epic Sunday Times bestselling historical action adventure novel (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 10) Kindle Edition
*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred’s Feast, is available to pre-order now*
The tenth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.
A hero will be forged from this broken land.
As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.
From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebbanburg. The great fort was built on a rock that was almost an island, it was massive, it could only be approached on land by a single narrow track – and it was mine.
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria’s Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia’s Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England’s greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago – and which his scheming cousin still occupies.
But fate is inexorable and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg. New enemies enter into the fight for England’s kingdoms: the redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest and leads his armies south. Britain’s precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation.
But Uhtred is determined that nothing, neither the new enemies nor the old foes who combine against him, will keep him from his birthright. He is the Lord of Bebbanburg, but he will need all the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream come true.
Bernard Cornwell's book 'Sharpe's Command' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-10-30.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date6 Oct. 2016
- File size2.0 MB
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Praise for Bernard Cornwell:
‘Like Game of Thrones, but real’ OBSERVER
'Blood, divided loyalties and thundering battles' THE TIMES
'Strong narrative, vigourous action and striking characterisation, Cornwell remains king of the territory he has staked out as his own' SUNDAY TIMES
'A violent, absorbing historical saga, deeply researched and thoroughly imagined' WASHINGTON POST
‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive’ George R.R. Martin
‘Cornwell draws a fascinating picture of England as it might have been before anything like England existed’ THE TIMES
‘He’s called a master storyteller. Really he’s cleverer than that’ TELEGRAPH
‘A reminder of just how good a writer he is’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Nobody in the world does this better than Cornwell’ Lee Child
From the Inside Flap
BBC2's major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series.
From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebbanburg. The great fort was built on a rock that was almost an island, it was massive, it could only be approached on land by a single narrow track - and it was mine.
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria's Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia's Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago - and which his scheming cousin still occupies.
But fate is inexorable and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg. New enemies enter into the fight for England's kingdoms: the redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest and leads his armies south. Britain's precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation.
But Uhtred is determined that nothing, neither the new enemies nor the old foes who combine against him, will keep him from his birth right. He is the Lord of Bebbanburg, but he will need all the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream come true.
From the Back Cover
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace, and England’s greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago—and which his scheming cousin still occupies.
But fate is inexorable, and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg. New enemies enter into the fight for England’s kingdoms: the redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest and leads his armies south. Britain’s precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation.
But Uhtred is determined that nothing, neither the new enemies nor the old foes who combine against him, will keep him from his birthright. The latest chapter in Bernard Cornwell’s “violent, absorbing historical saga,” The Flame Bearer confirms his title as “perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today” (Washington Post).
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About the Author
Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since. He and Judy divide their time between Cape Cod and Charleston, South Carolina.
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- Publisher : HarperCollins (6 Oct. 2016)
- Language : English
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About the author

Bernard Cornwell was born in London and worked in television until he met his American wife and moved to the US. Denied a work permit, he wrote a novel and has been writing ever since.
A master storyteller with a passion for history, his current bestselling series, THE LAST KINGDOM, is centred around the creation of England. It is also a major TV series on Netflix, with Bernard playing a cameo role in season three. The fourth season is currently being filmed.
He is also the author of THE GRAIL QUEST series, set in the Hundred Years’ War, THE WARLORD chronicles, set in Arthurian Britain, a number of standalone novels, one non-fiction work on Waterloo and the series with which he began, the SHARPE series.
For exciting news, tour and publication details, and exclusive content from Bernard visit www.bernardcornwell.net and like his author page on Facebook/Bernard.Cornwell
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2016Like almost all regular readers, I have my favourites and I usually think of them as segregated into genres. But, if I lump them all together, then my absolute favourite of favourites, top of the tree, is Bernard Cornwell; I've read every book that he's ever written. I also have Cornwell characters in a 'favourites' ranking too and Uhtred of Bebbanburg sits at the very top of that list, possibly because I live close to Bebbanburg / Bamburgh. So when a new Uhtred book is published, it's a big event for me. This one doesn't disappoint.
Since the first Uhtred book, 'The Last Kingdom' captured my imagination in 2004, I've followed the swathe of Uhtred's adventures across the pages of all nine books until now, in the tenth in this series, there is a resolution. Of sorts. To reveal more would be a spoiler but suffice to say that there is sufficient closure here to make the reader suspect that this is that last that we'll hear of Uhtred. So I'm delighted that, in the very last few words of his 'sign off', Mr Cornwell hints, pretty strongly, that the story doesn't end here.
Over the years, I've run out of superlatives for these and other BC books so I can't, really, say any more than that 'The Flame Bearer' is as worthy of all of that praise as all of the others. This isn't the best BC book and it isn't even the best Uhtred book, but that's to judge by BC standards, which is a bit like judging the top speed of every family saloon car against a Bugatti Veyron.
What's wrong with 'The Flame Bearer'? Well, very little but, if I'm being picky .... As always, it takes me a while to get straight, in my mind, who all of the Aethel.. characters are, but that's just a product of the unfortunate habit our ancestors had of naming everyone Aethel-something. My only real complaint is that the ending seems to be a bit rushed and trite in that all of Uhtred's enemies contrive to appear before him, at the same time and place, to be despatched one after the other as though they were lining up for execution. This felt a bit like an author (or editor) tidying up the end of a plot line neatly. Finally, in his 'afterword', Mr Cornwell apologises that this book contains so few real historical characters and events that it is almost entirely a work of fiction. Don't apologise Bernard, it's brilliant and you are, after all, a writer of historical fiction! ('Waterloo' aside).
So perhaps you get the message; if that's the worst thing that I can say about this book, then it's pretty @x%%&*** good!
Ah well, I'll settle down for the wait until the next Uhtred.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2016I’ve eagerly awaited Uhtred’s 10th outing as the legitimate Lord of Bebenburgh. He is, I believe, Bernard Cornwell’s greatest creation and it’s so good that the BBC TV series will bring him yet more fans. A complex hero, born a saxon Christian, raised as a pagan by the invading Danes, and fighting through the end of the 9th and start of the 10th century to get back his rightful lands, while helping Alfred and then Edward unite the 5 (updated courtesy Mr Critical, I forgot Cent!) kingdoms that are to become England (or Englaland). I found the end of the 9th book immensely satisfying, and this volume is no different. It may not be the best of the 10 novels, but all are excellent and The Flame Bearer doesn’t disappoint. It is populated by a cast of characters we know and love, or love to hate - some we will see for the last time, and a few new editions. This story is based more on the sea and the coast than in land, but as always Cornwell takes you to the stifling, smelly, terrifying heart of the battle, as well as guiding you through the motivations, factions and politics of 1100 years ago. We get closer to Uhtred’s destiny, but by the end there is still more to do. I’m hoping there are at least two more books. The only downside is that we’ve got another year to wait before we walk with him again.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2016For those of you who were wandering when it would happen, this is the volume where Uthred comes home, at last, although I will refrain from introducing any other spoilers. Just for this, the book is worth reading although there are also of course all the “usual” reasons in addition.
As the author mentions in his historical note, just about everything is fiction and invention, with the exception of the historical context itself. The action in this volume takes place in the early 10th century, towards the end of the reign of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex, conqueror of East Anglia and son of Alfred the Great. The Christians have also regained control of all of Mercia and Edward is encroaching on the Five Burroughs and the Southern border of Northumbria, the only area still held by the Northmen (a mix of Norse and Danes). The King of Northumbria is (quite rightly) shown as unable to face the pressure because he is badly outnumbered and must also contain Constantine and the Scots onslaught from the North. While his kingdom still exists and was not conquered by Edward the Elder, for the reasons shown in the book, its days seem numbered.
With regards to the characters, Uther, his son of the same name, his Irish friend Finn, and all of his warriors, are also fictitious. However, Edward, his sister, his two sons and a few others, are quite historical. So is the building tension between Athelstan, the eldest but whose claim to the throne is contested and whose life is at least potentially threatened, and the younger son, his mother and a faction headed by one of the main nobles of Wessex. This strongman is, of course, one of Uthred’s main and most virulent enemies who will stop at nothing to put our hero down by fair means or (mostly) foul.
A couple of other characters are also worth a special mention. One is the young but “unlucky” Viking warlord Einar, with his lack of luck reflecting the increasing difficulties that raiders were confronted with when trying to attack the increasingly powerful and well-defended Christian kingdoms. Another character, perhaps the most interesting of all, is that of the “mad bishop”, a somewhat Christianised Dane who used to be one of Ragnar’s (Uthred’s foster brother) warriors, and is now a self-appointed bishop who dreams of becoming the “Pope of the North”.
Another interesting feature is made of the low cunning, multiple plots and traitorous behaviours that see Uthred confronted by four potential enemies and rivals, all interested in either keeping or taking-over Uthred’s birthplace and almost impregnable fortress. These are his (usurping) cousin and namesake, Constantine, the King of the Scots whose ambition is to extend his kingdom down to Hadrian’s Wall, the very powerful and rich Saxon noble which was alluded to above and Einar the Viking warlord and his ships and crews. As for Uthred, he is his usual fierce, cunning, ruthless self, with the usual dry and cynical humour at play. Also of interest is the emergence and growing independence and “coming of age” of a young warrior-prince called Athelstan.
Then there are the fights and battles, although there is essentially only one of each. The battle is the book’s climax and, unsurprisingly, it is all about Uthred’s efforts in storming “his” fortress and conquering it back against the odds, of course, but with the help of his battle-hardened veterans.
Despite a certain lack of originality and although it is quite predictable, at least for those that have read the previous instalments, the book still packs a powerful punch and manages to be griping and exciting. Another minor little gripe, which is also a back-handed compliment in a way and has been noted by other reviewers, is that this book has less than 300 pages instead of the more customary 400 or so. The point here is that I finished the book wanting more, and felt a little bit frustrated as a result. Four strong stars.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2024Great read
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- John DohertyReviewed in Spain on 18 January 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars More of the same...
Why wouldn't you want to put on all your war finery and slaughter anyone who ever crossed you after reading this magnificent tale?
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MarceloReviewed in Brazil on 31 July 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Vale muito a pena
Excelente história , prende do início ao fim
- Ronda TuttReviewed in the United States on 8 December 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Fan-Freakn'-tastic
FAN-FREAKN’-TASTIC!
Uhtred finally gets to reclaim Bebbanburg! Woot! What a fast paced novel. The ravaging battles, the masterful planning, and all the painful struggles finally come to a head. I have to say that Uhtred has got to be the most baddddassss warrior ever to exist. I’m excited for him and feeling bitter sweet because though I have enjoyed Uhtreds journey, I really didn’t want his journey to end. No, now that he has reclaimed his heritage, what will he do with it now. So many unanswered questions to be fulfilled.
Every novel in this series is just excellent and I believe the best part is the descriptive battle scenes and the fierceness of Uhtred in battle. In this installment, it far exceeds the previous books. I felt every emotion of each warrior as if it was my own heartbeat. The writer’s ability to capture a dramatic battle scene is amazing with each detail giving me a visionary experience as if I was literally there on the battle field or in the fortress itself. The humor of the warrior’s right before they go into battle always cracked me up too.
Uhtred just continues to amaze me. With enemy all around him, he continues to outsmart them. I loved how he used the Mad Bishop to his advantage. The set up couldn’t have been more perfect. The best part is that Uhtred played each enemy against each other. With his enemies surrounding the fortress - AEthelhelm (King Edwards father-in-law) and his army , Einar the hired muscle who the Scotts had bought off, The Scottish King Constantin and his army, and don’t forget inside was Uhtred’s cousin and his army – however, somehow Uhtred used their hatred and madness to take each other out in order to get to and through the sea gate first – they literally did their own killing instead of Uhtred and his wolf pack having to kill them. I mean the odds were against him, but with his wolf pack – Finan, Prince AEthelstan (King Edwards son), Cerdic, Berg, Gerbruht, Swithun, Ulfar, Edric, and the boy Rorik with the help of Odin or thor, they made it all happen. I really enjoyed their friendship and loyalty to each other.
You may wonder where the title/name of The Flame Bearer comes from and its relevance.
Well:
“A man call Ida had come to this shore almost four hundred years before. He had landed from the sea, leading ships full of cruel men, and he had taken the crude fortress built on this rock, he had slaughtered the defenders, used their wives for his pleasure, and made their children his slaves. I was Ida’s descendant. His enemies, who were now the Welsh, called him Flamdwyn, the Flamebearer.”
“whether the song of Ida tells true or not, one truth is certain, that Ida the Flamebearer came to this crag and had the confidence to make a new kingdom on an old island.”
Uhtred’s words: “Now I trod in the Flamebearer’s footsteps to drench the rock with blood again.”
This was such an amazing story, the whole series is just fan-freakn’-tastic. I’m thrilled for Uhtred and the author has written that Uhtred’s work is not done yet so we get to look forward to another installment in the future. I highly recommend to all Historian readers that love a little Viking and Saxon history
Excellent Read!
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Galland5Reviewed in Italy on 1 January 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars The flame bearer
Questo libro , l' ultimo di questa lunghissima serie, attraverso schermaglie e aspri combattimenti ci fa vivere la battaglia ultima: quella per la conquista da parte di Uthred della fortezza natia. È interessante come questa fortezza venga conquistata. Di sicuro, allora come oggi, lo spionaggio fece la sua parte.
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- Robert SquarebriggsReviewed in Canada on 19 November 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read in the series
A great read in the series, and one that has been a long time coming. As usual, Bernard Cornwell weaves his magic spell upon the story and takes the reader back into the depths of British history, and follows the tale of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, also known as Uhtred the Wicked, a pagan warrior who is the strong right arm of the Christian King Alfred of Wessex. Finally Uhtred gets a chance to return to the North and try once again to reclaim his home in Beddanburg castle, stolen from him by his Uncle, on the death of his father, when he was a boy. Raised by Danes, his captors, he is a men between worlds, Dane and Saxon, pagan and Christian. He has raised himself up through strength and his wits, to become one of the most notable warriors of the time. Men are willing to follow him and kings willing to use him, but in all, he is his own man.