by Bernard Cornwell · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467455083
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Northumbria, el último reino» is the historical novel by Bernard Cornwell, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardback (440 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in ninth-century England, when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms suffer the invasions of the Danes. Through several characters, Cornwell shows the clash between Christianity and paganism and between two ways of understanding power, in a territory, Northumbria, disputed by armies and opposing loyalties.
First instalment of the saga «Sajones, vikingos y normandos», published in 2008 in the collection «Lo mejor de la nueva novela histórica». Translation by Libertad Aguilera Ballester.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking age.
Bernard Cornwell is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England.
