<i>Illustration by Bruno Wagner</i>
The latest in Bernard Cornwell’s oeuvre
<i>The Flame Bearer</i> (HarperCollins
November 2016) continues protagonist Uhtred’s saga to reclaim his birthright as Lord of Bebbanburg.
The author and pup Whiskey relax in the Cornwells’ downtown living room
taking a break from a writing day that starts at 5 a.m. “My job is to put words on pages
” he says. “I don’t pretend to be anything other than a storyteller.”
“Bernard totally enthralls an audience
” says Anne Cleveland of the Charleston Library Society
where Cornwell (pictured above in the library’s stacks) is a frequent speaker and serves on the board. “Imagine a combination of Shakespeare and Monty Python.”
