Bernard Cornwell, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14447-0
Arthurian literature may be a worldwide cottage industry, but Cornwell, author of the Sharpe series of historical military adventures (Sharpe's Battle, etc.) stands out from the crowd with this exemplary kickoff to a trilogy about the legendary...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-13375-6
Some readers may quibble at the ambiguous ending, but Cornwell's first modern-day novel, after Redcoat and the Sharpe series, works very nicely. Narrator Nick Sandman, Falkland Islands hero and Victoria Cross recipient, is determined not only to...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author Viking Books $17.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-82222-5
The eight previous books about Richard Sharpe, up-from-the-ranks infantry officer in H.M. Rifles, followed him from Talavera in 1809, battling Napoleon's armies across Iberia into France in early 1814. This ``prequel'' set in January 1809 has the...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author Viking Books $17.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-80867-0
The 10th in Cornwell's series ( Sharpe's Rifles , etc.) is a corker. It is early 1814 and Major Richard Sharpe is still with one-eyed Capt. Frederickson and giant Sgt. Maj. Harper. Sharpe's French nemesis Major Ducos, in the first of a series of...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-399-13458-6
Occasionally tripped up by tangled nautical jargon, Cornwell ( Wildtrack ) nevertheless delivers a pretty fair yarn. John Rossendale, 28th Earl of Stowey, is a 30-ish semi-rebel who has escaped his nasty, impoverished family by bumming around the...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-016388-4
Cornwell has written effectively of modern ocean sailing ( Wildtrack ; Killer's Wake ) and military maritime adventure (the Sharpe series), but the combination doesn't succeed here. British ex-marine Nick Breakspear, who skippers charter boats out...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (358p) ISBN 978-0-06-017927-4
Cornwell's fourth seagoing adventure ( Wildtrack ) features boatyard owner and solo globe-circler Tim Blackburn, devastated when his wife is killed by an explosion in the English Channel. Tim has already lost his son, who was murdered by IRA...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-06-017766-9
In the second volume of the Starbuck Chronicles, Cornwell surpasses his wonderful series featuring a war-crazed 19th-century British officer ( Sharpe's Devil , etc.) and even mainstream thrillers like Crackdown . Many believable, three-dimensional...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (280p) ISBN 978-0-06-017977-9
Fans of the 10 previous Sharpe novels will be delighted to have the up-from-the-ranks ex-colonel back. Five years after Waterloo ( Sharpe's Revenge ), Sharpe, living quietly en famille in Normandy, is asked by Dona Louisa Vivar to find her husband,...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (308p) ISBN 978-0-06-017713-3
First in a projected series, this brisk novel by the popular author of Sharpe's Devil follows the adventures of Nathaniel Starbuck, the rebellious and discredited son of a famous Boston abolitionist preacher. Nate flees the North after helping a...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-017677-8
From a previous book in Cornwell's acclaimed Sharpe series, Sharpe's Devil, we know that Richard Sharpe, up-from-the-ranks captain in the Duke of Wellington's army, lived at least until 1821. So this tale, which finds the English soldier pitted...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-621084-1
The young archer Thomas of Hookton joins the forces of King Edward III to fight against France in Cornwell's latest, which takes place in the mid-14th century at the beginning of the Hundred Years War. Thomas, a brilliant, handsome warrior who...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-15523-0
Top-notch storyteller Cornwell continues where his acclaimed The Winter King left off, creating another compelling fictional history set in fifth-century Britain. Skillfully interweaving details from a myriad of Arthurian legends, he shows how...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-18575-6
Readers of Mallory and other sources of Arthurian lore may be struck by their conflation of bloody savagery and Christian pieties. In his new Arthurian novel, Cornwell (The Winter King) dramatizes the confrontation of Christianity--here depicted as...
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Bernard Cornwell. Harper, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-196965-2
The sixth installment of Cornwell’s Saxon series (after The Burning Land) returns to the days before there was an England—or an English sense of fair play—when Saxons, Danes, and Vikings, Christians and pagans alike, fought relentlessly and...
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Bernard Cornwell. Harper, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-196967-6
Cornwell, a master of action-packed historical fiction, returns with the fourth book in his Grail Quest series (after Heretic), a vivid, exciting portrayal of medieval warfare as the English and French butcher each other at the Battle of Poitiers in
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Bernard Cornwell. Harper, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-196970-6
In Cornwell's (1356) latest, 10th century Britain is a splintered land, populated by pagans and Christians and divided between Saxons and Danes. The pagan Uhtred, once favored by Alfred the Great, finds himself distrusted by Alfred's successor,...
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Bernard Cornwell. Harper, $35 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-231205-1
Best known for his historical novels, Cornwell (The Empty Throne) puts years of research to good use for his first nonfiction work, a new look at the events of Waterloo, which is "one of the most studied and written-about battles in history," yet "li
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-06-053048-8
Capt. Richard Sharpe, upstart rifleman, performs a sensitive mission for Henry Wellesley, the duke of Wellington's younger brother and special envoy to Spain in Cadiz, in bestseller Cornwell's rousing 21st military historical (after 2005'
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Nobody describes bloody battle scenes better than Cornwell, and even he outdoes himself with this riveting novel about the epic naval battle off Spain's Cape Trafalgar in 1805. This is the 17th volume in his popular Napoleonic War series about...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-000252-7
The traditional military adventure yarn remains alive and well in the capable hands of Cornwell, as his up-from-the-ranks hero, Richard Sharpe, though stuck in the lowly role of regimental quartermaster, finds himself in the thick of the 1807...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-008273-4
Fans of Cornwell's gallant up-from-the-ranks rifleman, Richard Sharpe, will welcome the upright Captain Rider Sandman, a veteran, like Sharpe, of Waterloo and the Peninsula campaign, in a mystery that highlights the horrors of capital punishment
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-621080-3
The Hundred Years War is the bloody backdrop to this second volume of Cornwell's new series about the search for the Holy Grail (after The Archer's Tale). Like its predecessor, the novel follows Thomas of Hookton, an archer in the English...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-053046-4
Sharpe fans who may have worried that Cornwell's popular series was drawing to a close can heave a sigh of relief—the 19th entry (after 2002's Sharpe's Prey) brings the up-from-the-ranks rifleman back to the Peninsular War where...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-053049-5
Cornwell is a master of the historical action novel, and he outdoes himself again with this gripping third volume in his Grail Quest series, set during the bloody Hundred Years' War (The Archer's Tale; Vagabond). For years, English archer...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-053047-1
"So Sharpe and Harper will march again." Thus ended Sharpe's Havoc
, the previous (19th) volume in Cornwell's series, and Sharpe aficionados will rejoice that the prophecy has been fulfilled. In September of 1810, just before...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-053051-8
Bestseller Cornwell leaps back a millennium from his Richard Sharpe series to tell of the consolidation of England in the late ninth century and the role played by a young (fictional) warrior-in-training who's at the center of the war between...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-06-078712-7
Outnumbered Saxon forces continue battling Danish invaders in this rousing sequel to the bestselling The Last Kingdom
. It's A.D. 877, and the dispossessed Northumbrian noble Uhtred has just routed the Danes in a battle at Cynuit in southern...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-088862-6
Set in A.D. 878, Cornwell's splendid third Saxon novel (after The Pale Horseman
and The Last Kingdom
) chronicles the adventures of 21-year-old Saxon warrior Uhtred of Bebbanburg, who believes "my swords could win me the whole world."...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . Harper $25.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-06-088864-0
Cornwell’s fourth entry in the popular Saxon Tales (following Lords of the North
) is a rousing romp through the celebrated ninth-century reign of Alfred the Great. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a 28-year-old pagan Saxon “lord of war,” has
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . Harper $27.95 (451p) ISBN 978-0-06-157891-5
A literary veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the U.S. Civil War, Cornwell returns to the Hundred Years War era in this action-packed if slightly melodramatic epic about King Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Nicholas Hook, an English...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author . Harper $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-088874-9
Slathered in blood and gore, Saxon warlord Uhtred of Bebbanburg hacks his way through the ninth century in the exciting fifth installment to bestseller Cornwell's Saxon Tales series (following Sword Song
). This action-packed novel continues...
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Bernard Cornwell, Harper, $25.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-196963-8
In a slight departure from his usual sword and musket epics, Cornwell (Agincourt) delivers a straightforward fictionalized account of a disastrous 1779 American military campaign in today's Maine (then Massachusetts) that's heavy on historical...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author St. Martin's Griffin $16.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-15696-1
In a starred review PW called this Camelot rewrite an ""exemplary kickoff to"" Cornwell's trilogy The Warlord Chronicles. (May)
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (291p) ISBN 978-0-06-101270-9
Followers of Cornwell's series featuring the exploits of British infantry officer Richard Sharpe (Sharpe's Rifles, et al.) in the Napoleonic wars (adapted for Masterpiece Theater) and in his earlier career in colonial India will relish this look at...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (434p) ISBN 978-0-06-019700-1
Prolific British author Cornwell is best known for his Napoleonic warfare adventure series with Captain Richard Sharpe, and for the Starbuck Chronicles, about the American Civil War. Now he imaginatively unlocks the mystery of Stonehenge's creation...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author HarperCollins $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-019424-6
Already a bestseller in the U.K., this 16th volume chronicling the heroic escapades of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier with Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the duke of Wellington), resumes the marathon historical narrative in India during the...
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Bernard Cornwell, Author, Paul McGann, Performed by HarperAudio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-084162-1
Set in 1811 and culminating at the Battle of Barossa, this 21st novel (which chronologically follows Sharpe's Escape) featuring the rifleman Richard Sharpe has the protagonist stuck in the Spanish city of Cadiz, with the task of recovering some...
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Bernard Cornwell. HarperCollins, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-256326-2
Last seen in 2007’s Sharpe’s Fury, the indestructible Richard Sharpe has one more battle to fight in bestseller Cornwell’s rousing 24th novel featuring the English rifleman. Born in the gutter to a London prostitute, Sharpe has risen in the ranks...
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