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The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, The Lords of the North

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*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now* Start the epic journey today. This is the books 1, 2 and 3 in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. Now a BBC and Netflix series. A hero will be forged from this broken land. The beginning of the tale of Uhtred. Uhtred is born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia. So ends The Last Kingdom. The Pale Horseman takes place right afterwards in the fateful year in which the Danes capture Alfred's kingdom and drive him as a fugitive into the marshes of Athelney. It seems that Wessex, and England, are destroyed, but Alfred is determined to make one desperate gamble that might save his kingdom. The Lords of the North sees Uhtred, having helped Alfred secure Wessex an independent Saxon kingdom, returns north to find his stepsister. Instead he discovers chaos, civil war and treachery in Northumbria. He takes the side of Guthred, once a slave and now a man who would be king, and in return expects Guthred's help in capturing Dunholm, the lair of the dark Viking lord, Kjartan.

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Series: The Last Kingdom Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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  • ISBN: 9780007532520
  • Release date: August 15, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9780007532520
  • File size: 5616 KB
  • Release date: August 15, 2013

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OverDrive Read
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English

*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now* Start the epic journey today. This is the books 1, 2 and 3 in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. Now a BBC and Netflix series. A hero will be forged from this broken land. The beginning of the tale of Uhtred. Uhtred is born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia. So ends The Last Kingdom. The Pale Horseman takes place right afterwards in the fateful year in which the Danes capture Alfred's kingdom and drive him as a fugitive into the marshes of Athelney. It seems that Wessex, and England, are destroyed, but Alfred is determined to make one desperate gamble that might save his kingdom. The Lords of the North sees Uhtred, having helped Alfred secure Wessex an independent Saxon kingdom, returns north to find his stepsister. Instead he discovers chaos, civil war and treachery in Northumbria. He takes the side of Guthred, once a slave and now a man who would be king, and in return expects Guthred's help in capturing Dunholm, the lair of the dark Viking lord, Kjartan.

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