This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2016

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      Map © John Gilkes 2016

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       Dedication

       The Flame Bearer

      is for Kevin Scott Callahan,

      1992–2015

       Wyrd bið ful ãræd

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Map

       Place Names

       Part One: The King

       One

       Two

       Part Two: The Trap

       Three

       Four

      

       Five

      

       Six

      

       Part Three: The Mad Bishop

      

       Seven

      

       Eight

      

       Nine

      

       Ten

      

       Part Four: The Return to Bebbanburg

      

       Eleven

      

       Twelve

      

       Epilogue

      

       Historical Note

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       About the Author

      

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

      

       About the Publisher

       PLACE NAMES

      The spelling of place names in Anglo-Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres. Doubtless some readers will prefer other versions of the names listed below, but I have usually employed whichever spelling is cited in either the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names or the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names for the years nearest or contained within Alfred’s reign,

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