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Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944. He was adopted at six weeks old by a family in Essex who belonged to a strict religious sect called the Peculiar People who forbade television, alcohol, cigarettes, dances and toy guns. After graduating, and working as a teacher, he joined BBC Television where he worked for the next 10 years working his way from researcher to Head of Current Affairs Television for the BBC in Northern Ireland. In 1979, his life changed when he met and fell in love with Judy, a visiting American. Judy was unable to move to Britain for family reasons so Bernard went to the States where he was refused a Green Card, so for eighteen months he wrote novels; the only job that didn't require a permit. The hugely successful Sharpe series was born with the publication of Sharpe's Eagle, the first of twenty books about the 19th century hero, Richard Sharpe.

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	Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell Average rating: (read by 48 members) An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Azincourt from the number one historical novelist Agincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, St Crispin's Day, is one of England's best-known battles, in part through the brilliant depiction of it in Shakespeare's Henry V, in part because it was a...
	Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell Average rating: (read by 48 members) Thomas of Hookton is one of those archers. When his village is sacked by French raiders, he makes a promise to God: to retrieve the relic stolen from Hookton's church. Escaping his father's ambitions, he becomes a wild youth who delights in the life of an army on the warpath. Driven by his conscience and protected...
	The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell Average rating: (read by 45 members) Uhtred is a Saxon, cheated of his inheritance, and adrift in a world of fire, sword, and treachery. He has to make a choice: to fight for the Vikings, who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who dislikes him. In the late ninth century, Wessex is the last English kingdom. All the rest have fallen...