THe Last Kingdom

I've been enjoying Bernard Cornwell's THE LAST KINGDOM, about a Saxon boy, the son of an Earl, who's captured in war by the Danes as they conquer Northumbria, and raised by a Danish nobleman. The kid is a fresh character, torn between his two identities -- he really prefers being a pagan Dane to having been an English Christian, but he knows in his heart that he's English and not Danish. The historical details really put you in another time and another place, and the people are true to their ...