

1356
A Novel
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Narrator: Jack Hawkins
Unabridged: 11 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 01/08/2013
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Narrator: Jack Hawkins
Unabridged: 11 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 01/08/2013
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Bernard Cornwell is the author of over fifty novels, including the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales, which serve as the basis for the hit Netflix series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.
3.5/5 Estrellas ¿Recordáis esa expresión que se comentaba en España hace unos años, cuando cosechábamos éxitos rotundos en numerosos deportes: "soy español ¿A qué quieres que te gane?" Mucho orgullo y poca humildad. Luego más dura es la caída, cuando se vuelve a perder. Pues bien, perdonadme por el sí......more
Read this book in 2012, and this book is the 4th part of "The Grail Quest" series, featuring Thomas of Hookton by Bernard Cornwell. This book is set in the Middle Ages, during the Hundred Years War, in the year AD 1356, and we find Thomas of Hookton in France. England is invading France again under th......more
Il quarto episodio della "Saga del Graal" di Bernard Cornwell qualche difettuccio ce l'ha: riferimenti quasi inesistenti ai libri precedenti per renderlo più accessibile a lettori nuovi ed occasionali (l'autore si ricorda solo attorno a pag. 170 che Thomas di Hookton ha una mano mutilata), epilogo f......more
3.5 stars It took me a while for my attention to get drawn into this novel. Mainly because I discovered, only after I'd started reading the thing, that it's actually the fourth novel in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. Now, other people may have no problem picking up and reading a book from the......more
Thomas of Hookton, he of the Grailquest trilogy, is brought out of inventory for Cornwell's 1356, and given a chance to participate in one of England's greatest battles, Poitiers. Hookton may remind you of that character, Indiana Jones. He searches after artifacts, masters weapons, is shrewd, and sp......more