Fabulous reads – Wartime book will have your howling for more
Book review - War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell.
War of the Wolf (The Saxon Stories #11), Bernard Cornwell, Jonathan Ball Publishers, ISBN: 9780008183844
At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight. Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn’t have long to enjoy the victory.
In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king. And across the country invading Norsemen continue their relentless incursion, ever hungry for land.
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Uhtred – a legendary warrior, admired and sought as an ally, feared as an enemy – is once again torn between his two heritages. When he finds himself fighting on what he considers the wrong side, facing one of his most fearsome enemies and cursed by misfortune and tragedy, only the most astute cunning, the greatest loyalty and the most spectacular courage can save him.
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