The Burning Land: A Novel (Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales), 5)The fifth installment of Bernard Cornwells New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, like Game of Thrones, but real (The Observer, London)the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. At the end of the ninth century, with King Alfred of Wessex in ill health and his heir still an untested youth, it falls to Alfreds reluctant warlord Uhtred to outwit and outbattle the invading enemy Danes,