Articles in the Bernard Cornwell Category

Random reading for a Sunday
Posted in Bernard Cornwell, thoughts on 2 September 2012

I have confessed already this summer to a love of Bernard Cornwell’s ‘fight, quest and slaughter novels’. Historical novels often tell us more about the present we inhabit and the views of the author than the past.

So it is …

A bit of holiday reading:1
Posted in Bernard Cornwell on 31 July 2012

People list all sorts of books that are ‘the’ book to be seen with this year. You know the sort of thing: ‘A sensitively drawn picture of the subtle shifts in feeling of a young railway timetable compiler in interwar …

Wot I learned from France part 5
Posted in Bernard Cornwell, France on 16 August 2009

I read this during holiday. It was perfect holiday reading. I have an unjustified liking for this novelist. Ok- I did read it and wonder if there was a PhD to be had on the place of religion in his …