The Last Kingdom

Don't bother with this abridged version read by Jamie Glover. The full length version read by Tom Sellwood is far, far better. This is simply too good a book to be needlessly shortened and read without any charm or flair. Go for Tom Sellwood's unabridged MP3 version!

Don't bother with this abridged version read by Jamie Glover. The full length version read by Tom Sellwood is far, far better. This is simply too good a book to be needlessly shortened and read without any charm or flair. Go for Tom Sellwood's unabridged MP3 version!

A Review That Has Very Little to Do with This Book: Sometimes you need a lot of book. You know what I mean. Those Fridays you come home, lie down on the couch, and resolve not to come back until Sunday afternoon. You have vetoed faces and the spoken word. The phone will remain unplugged except for th......more

I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: [URL not allowed] Uthred, son of Uthred, it’s finally time for me to read your story in its prose form. I am no stranger to Bernard Cornwell’s work, ever since John Gwynne recommended me The Warlord Chronicles trilogy—which I finished and......more

"My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred. My father’s clerk, a priest called Beocca, spelt it Utred. I do not know if that was how my father would have written it, for he could neither read nor write, but I can do both and sometimes......more

The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell, is a triumph of a novel; it is historical fiction at its finest. Uhtred’s story is as fantastic as it is gripping, and most importantly it feels realistic. It’s like I’ve read a chapter of a man’s life that could have existed, that could have been a part of his......more

I had no idea what I was getting into when I read this book. I'd never read Bernard Cornwell. All I knew was that it was a book about Vikings. Anyway, I absolutely loved it! And I became a permanent Bernard Cornwell fan. I think Uhtred is one of my favorite characters of all time. Yes he’s mean, arr......more