Eliza Butterworth

The Last Kingdom is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories. The books follow Uhtred of Bebbanburg from a boy taken from his birthright and raised by Vikings, later fighting for King Alfred the Great and his son Edward. Shield walls, blood, revenge and the forging of many Kingdoms into one nation, a dream of Alfred's called England. (imdb)

This intoxicating cocktail of crime thriller and family saga in the early '80s follows the Lords - a family of South London gangsters - who recognise a golden opportunity to re-capture their former glory on the Costa Del Sol. (imdb)