![]() ![]() The Sunday Telegraph This is sweeping, atmospheric, old-fashioned story telling The Times It is a compelling yarn, cleverly suffused with period detail, which evokes the brutality and earthiness of medieval life, and leaves you hungry for more. ![]() Times Literary Supplement More praise for The Pale Horseman: !as an unsentimental, psychologically astute portrait of fighting men, it has all his old verve and polish. Sunday Telegraph Cornwells mastery of historical sources and his aptitude for battle scenes is well established.the language, and particularly the dialogue, is raw and unarchaic, rich in insults and Anglo-Saxon expletives. 8) is the second book in the tale of Uhtred, Lord of Bebbanburg, and his tangled relationship with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex in the 9th Century. ![]() Observer It is stirring stuff, and few writers are better qualified than Cornwell to do justice to the excitement of the times.Ninth-century Britain and a master of storytelling - it is a marriage made in heaven. Daily Mail Cornwells narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched. Out of stock - dispatches within 5-7 business days. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation. The Pale Horseman (the Last Kingdom Series, Book 2) Bernard Cornwell. Praise for The Pale Horseman: Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. ![]()
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