With Calais in English hands, hostilities are suspended, but Thomas' quest to find the Holy Grail continues. His cousin Guy of Vexille still pursues him with deadly purpose, convinced that there is a link between Thomas and what he covets.So much depends on who will win this deadly game of hide and seek - and when the cousins at last come face to face, the war-torn countryside where they meet becomes a very Hell on earth. There has never been a greater need for a sign of God's favour, symbolized by the Grail and he who holds it.

L'hérétique

The eighteenth novel in this bestselling adventure series takes Richard Sharpe to battle in Copenhagen.

Sharpe's Prey

La saga épique à l'origine de la série Netflix The Last KingdomIXe siècle. Uhtred, le fils dépossédé d'un seigneur anglais, a vaillamment repoussé aux côtés des siens l'impitoyable invasion viking. Désormais libéré de son allégeance au roi Alfred le Grand, mais sans terres ni titre, le jeune homme revient sur ses terres natales pour réclamer son dû. Or il ne peut compter que sur sa légendaire épée, car seuls un esclave et une nonne l'accompagnent. Et dans le Nord, le chaos, l'horreur et la trahison les accueillent, forçant Uhtred à se tourner de nouveau vers son ancien souverain... Une fresque flamboyante mêlant bravoure, trahison, sens du devoir et combats au coeur de l'une des périodes les plus fascinantes de l'Histoire. « Game of Thrones dans le monde réel. » The Observer« Magnifique. » Entertainment Weekly« Splendide. Cornwell revisite l'Histoire avec un talent consommé. » Publishers Weekly

Les Seigneurs du Nord - The Last Kingdom, T3

The second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms.At the end of The Last Kingdom, The Danes had been defeated at Cynuit, but the triumph of the English is not fated to last long. The Danish Vikings quickly invade and occupy three of England’s four kingdoms—and all that remains of the once proud country is a small piece of marshland, where Alfred and his family live with a few soldiers and retainers, including Uhtred, the dispossessed English nobleman who was raised by the Danes. Uhtred has always been a Dane at heart, and has always believed that given the chance, he would fight for the men who raised him and taught him the Viking ways. But when Iseult, a powerful sorceress, enters Uhtred’s life, he is forced to consider feelings he’s never confronted before—and Uhtred discovers, in his moment of greatest peril, a new-found loyalty and love for his native country and ruler.

Le quatrième cavalier

The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series on the American Civil War.

 It is summer 1861. The armies of North and South stand on the brink of America's civil war.

 Nathanial Starbuck, jilted by his girl and estranged from his family, arrives in the capital of the Confederate South, where he enlists in an elite regiment being raised by rich, eccentric Washington Faulconer.

 Pledged to the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck becomes a northern boy fighting for the southern cause. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking violence to follow in the war which broke America in two.

Rebel

*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now*

 The fifth novel in Bernard Cornwell's epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

 As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.

 To King Alfred he is the 'lord of battles'. He has gained riches, loyal men and a beloved wife. But Uhtred is dogged by betrayal and tragedy.

 The ailing Alfred presses Uhtred to swear loyalty to his son and heir Edward, preventing the warrior lord from taking vengeance on those who stole his home at Bebbanburg. Now Uthred will once again defend the Christian kingdom - in a battle which could smash the growing power of the deadly Danes.

 In so doing he meets a woman more dangerous than any warlord. A killer, a schemer with a dark power over men's hearts: Skade.

 Uhtred of Bebbanburg's mind is as sharp as his sword. A thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and those he has sworn to serve.

The Burning Land

Découvrez Richard Sharpe, le meilleur ennemi de Napoléon. Guerre du Portugal, forteresse d'Almeida, août 1810. Tandis que les armées françaises occupent l'Espagne et repoussent les armées anglaises sur les côtes portugaises, le général Wellington confie une mission désespérée au capitaine Richard Sharpe, du South Essex. Celui-ci doit, avec ses fusiliers, s'infiltrer derrière les lignes françaises et faire jonction avec un mystérieux chef guérillero, El Católico, pour prendre en charge un incroyable trésor dont les ressources permettraient à l'Angleterre de poursuivre son effort de guerre. Très vite, Richard Sharpe comprend qu'il ne doit pas seulement se protéger des patrouilles françaises, mais aussi des partisans espagnols, bien plus impitoyables. Pourchassés par les uns, traqués par les autres, Sharpe et ses fusiliers vont devoir se résoudre à l'impensable pour réussir leur mission et sauver l'armée anglaise de l'anéantissement.

Le trésor de Sharpe

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, compelling installments 12-15 in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army. SHARPE'S TIGER The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne, posing as a deserter to make contact with a spy held prisoner in his city. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo's well-set trap. SHARPE'S TRIUMPH India, 1803. It is four years since Richard Sharpe earned his sergeant's stripes at the siege of Seringapatam, and four years in which Sharpe seems to have discovered the easiest billet in the British army. But that comfort is shattered when he witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who defects from the East India Company to join a mercenary army commanded by Sharpe's nemesis, Anthony Pohlman. After being ordered to join the hunt for the renegade officer, Sharpe finds himself caught up in the historic battle of Assaye, where he is plunged into the white heat of battle-if he can survive. SHARPE'S BATTLEQuartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, led by an old enemy of Sharpe's, and suffer heavy losses. The army's high command blame Sharpe for the disaster and his military career seems to be ruined. His only hope is to redeem himself on the battlefield. So with his honour at stake, against an overwhelming number of French troops, Sharpe leads his men to battle in the narrow streets of Fuentes de Oñoro. SHARPE'S DEVILFive years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe's peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands - a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine that dangers that await them in Chile.

The Sharpe Collection: Books #12-15 - Sharpe's Devil, Sharpe's Battle, Sharpe's Tiger, and Sharpe's Triumph

*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now*

 Welcome to The Last Kingdom

 Discover the first book in the epic, bestselling series that has gripped millions.

 A hero will be forged from this broken land.

 In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people, Uhtred is a fierce and skilled warrior who kneels to no-one.

 Alfred - Saxon, king, man of god - fights to hold the throne of the only land still resisting the pagan northerners.

 Uhtred and Alfred's fates are tangled, soaked in blood and blackened by the flames of war. Together they will change history.

L'hérétique

Résumé

Plus de livres de Bernard Cornwell

Critiques

Ce livre n'a pas encore de critiques