My local Borders often serves me well. My latest find is Bernard Cornwell’s most recent book The Burning Land now on sale at half the published price. It’s a bargain. It’s more than a bargain. It has that special touch about it which brings the story to life.
It’s an historical novel set in proto Englaland as King Alfred is growing old and the Danes are trying their luck in Mercia and in Wessex. The battle scenes are excellent. The first person narrative and dialogue thoroughly convincing. The paganism up front.
I had never read Bernard Cornwell before though I knew his name and something of his reputation. I shall go in search of his previously published Saxon stories.
francis cameron, oxford, 28 october 2009
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