by vjbooks | Jan 28, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944 – a ‘warbaby’ – whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted by a family in Essex who belonged to a religious sect called the...
by vjbooks | Jan 23, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Azincourt is the tale of Nicholas Hook, an archer, who begins the novel by joining the garrison of Soissons, a city whose patron saints were Crispin and Crispinian. What happened at Soissons shocked all Christendom, but in the following year, on the feast day of...
by vjbooks | Jan 10, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Oct. 13) A literary veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the U.S. Civil War, Cornwell returns to the Hundred Years War era in this action-packed if slightly melodramatic epic about King Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Nicholas...
by vjbooks | Dec 27, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(savvyreader.typepad.com, Nov. 28, Cathi Bond) Bestselling author of the Richard Sharpe series, Bernard Cornwell, recently sat down with Cathi Bond to record a Prosecast episode about his new book, Azincourt. Read on to see what this king of historical fiction has to...
