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Cornwell turns to Agincourt

25.03.08 Benedicte Page

Bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell is to tackle the battle of Agincourt for his new novel, coming from HarperCollins in the autumn. Azincourt will be a standalone story, published as an £18.99 hardback in October, and Cornwell will do a UK tour to promote.

The publisher said the author's retelling of Henry V’s famous victory over the French in 1415 would be an "epic story of strategy and power struggle, of courage and chivalry, of ferocious fighting and slaughter," with m.d. Amanda Ridout predicting that the book would attract a new, non-fiction readership for Cornwell and be "a huge bestseller around the world".

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