Orphan of both parents from a very young age, Bernard Cornwell it can be said that he is the prototype of a self-made writer. Although it is a more practical than romantic consideration. The truth is that he became a writer out of necessity once he moved to the United States, trusting his destiny to the fact that writing could bear fruit in a kind of job that justified his economic autonomy in his new country.
Arrests were not lacking Cornwell in every attempt to carve out a future. Without a doubt, ending up being adopted by a family that, no matter how well they received him, would always lack total commitment to his prosperous future, would serve as an incentive to see the world as a place in which to make a way for oneself or in the one who ends up lost in regrets. Bernard studied, worked as a teacher and later as a journalist. Until his jump from the puddle.
And eventually Bernard became the great Cornwell, writer of historical novels and probably a reference to so many sagas of the historical fiction genre that would come after him. Taking into account also that Spain becomes the setting for many of his novels, his figure becomes a great reference for readers of our own story in a fictional tone.
Your character Richard Sharpe It is one of the most deliveries that has starred in the history of literature. In fact, his first fictionalized appearance dates back to the late eighteenth century and in the nineteenth century we know him as Lieutenant Colonel. If fictionalized lives exist, it could be said that Richard Sharpe is a character who jumps out of books to inhabit real history.
Top novels by Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's rifles
An already Lieutenant Sharpe attends one of those lost battles that every good soldier has to face. In La Coruña everything seems lost, the French have caught their rear and the arrival at port seems impossible.
In the desperate escape, Sharpe himself gets lost in the area, exposed to being taken prisoner or killed by the French army. Luckily the Spanish cavalry extends a hand to him and his group of lost soldiers.
Now safe, Sharpe will participate with the Spanish in the liberation of Santiago de Compostela. The Spaniards are burning with the desire to storm their holy city and Sharpe has to manage to try a lightning attack with which to defeat the superior number of French soldiers, also safeguarded by the city itself.
Uhtred, the pagan
Stories about all kinds of injustices and abuses of the old monarchies proliferate in the genre of historical fiction.
The magic resides on the stage and in how we open the way to injustice and the consequent liberation… In this novel we focus on Uhtred, a faithful soldier of King Alfred who after his death is separated from the court by his son Edward.
As we could guess, Edward has taken advantage of the comfort and formative privileges of his condition to make him an egomaniac with no sense of status.
The bygone kingdom of Wessex is plunged into misery shortly after Edward's arrival. But our good Uthred will begin to conspire in the shadows, seeking to regain his honor and the honor of a homeland trampled by his own king.
1356. Go with God, but fight like the devil
In this novel Cornwell flirts with the fantastic epic. It seems as if the fact of going back a few years in his most influential historical sphere has encouraged him to adopt that esoteric point typical of remote times.
And the play comes out very well in this novel. England maintains its warlike attitude with France and the total confrontation is predicted close. The Earl of Northampton calls for the services of Thomas de Hookton to commission a mission prior to the outbreak of war.
According to the nobleman, he has come to know of the possible location of Malice, a sword of great power that could grant them unparalleled victories and perpetual glory.
