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The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell

Back in July, The BBC and Downton Abbey producers announced that they would be adapting Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories/Warrior Chronicles.  I was so delighted, I blogged about it here.  Uhtred is one of Cornwell's characters that you can tell he loves, but that he has struggled with.  A couple of the middle books lacked his usual abandon, but this was due to him fighting and beating cancer at the time.  It does help that Cornwell claims direct linage with Uhtred of Bebbanberg, so that keeps the series going.  The latest in the story is The Empty Throne.

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