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Hi....Just for the record:

 

Q

I recently saw the beginning of Sharpe Season 1. They were in Spain. I’m puzzled by the hats the Spaniards were wearing. They Appeared to have some sort of loosely fitting cover made out of a grey fabric over a rather tall hat.  Were those in fact covers or were they the actual hat. If so, they’re odd hats.

Thank you,

Valerie Brown,

Submitted October 27, 2017

 

It was in Portugal and the guys with the hats were French cavalry.....but I agree, the hats were really strange :-)

 

D

Hi Mr Cornwell,

 

It seems myself and my father were never destined to be alike or particularly fond of each other when growing up.However, I got older, as did he, and I/we discovered I am more akin to him than I/He would have liked (and certainly more-so than my brother and my sister) yet now I am 29 and he is 64 and I believe, partially thanks to your telling of the establishing of England, and the telling of the fictitious Uhtred's story, we are potentially closer than I could have ever imagined. Recently my dad traced back our ancestry to the Danes/Vikings and we live in the North East of England so this really struck home. I genuinely think I owe the relationship we have together today to the story of Uhtred. Now more than ever do we both realise we are alike in so many ways, and it wasn't until we both searched each other's bookcases we realised we must have read at least 75% of the same stories.

 

Uhtred is still a great talking point between us... unfortunately my other half will not, YET, allow us to call our next first born son to be called either UHTRED or RAGNAR... I guess that name will have to be reserved for my dog :(

 

Anyways I would just like to say I can't wait for the next book and for those that say the series has ran its course... they're wrong!! Especially for a Northumbria lad, and a lad that has fond memories of Babbanburgh and skinny dipping in the North Sea :)

 

I was too young to read the Sharpe series, although I watched Sean Bean on the telly ;)

 

Keep up the amazing work and story telling and you will always have a fan in myself and my father.

 

Thanks,

Paul

Mr. Cornwell

 

I am yet another fan, having just finished The Flame Bearer. I am excited for Uhtred's next play in your Historical Fiction formation of England. However, this is not the main reason as to why I am sending you this message. After skimming through the questions your readers have up on your site, I came to see that you have answered all, if not almost all, of their questions. A lot of them being the same question, which I bet gets annoying after a while. This speaks greatly of your commitment to us and to your work. I want to thank you for this. It means a lot. Just something as small as answering a readers question goes a long ways. God bless.

 

Sincerely,

Quinn Malone

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

 

First: a big compliment for your work. I won the first book of the Uhtred saga during a radio contest. It was in Dutch, as I am Dutch. It was a nice book to read, so the second one I bought. This one too was in Dutch. But it did not satisfy me. Not because of the story, but because of the terrible translation.

So, I bought all of the books in English, as my English is quite good.

Those 9 books (book No. 10 wasn't for sale yet) kept me busy for about..... one week. I lived Uhtred, I breathed Uhtred, I was Uhtred. And yes, I hated Alfred and I admired him at the same time.

I really enjoyed the books. Book 10 I pre-ordered at Amazon, and when it finally arrived (I did not know 10 days could feel like 2 years...) it lasted about two days...

 

Right now I have no question for you, as I already saw the answer I wanted to see.

 

"Q

Will there be any more books in the Last Kingdom series?

 

Submitted November 21, 2017

A

I'm writing the next book of The Last Kingdom series now."

 

This was all I wanted to know at this point. I will buy it when it is for sale.

 

Patrick Brasz

Thank you for writing your novels. I have completed the Sharpe series, Saxon Tales, Grail Quest, Warlord Chronicles and others. My favorite is Uhtred and I hope there is a follow up to "The Flame Bearer". Unanswered questions at the end of each novel makes for an anticipated follow up. Again, thank you and keep writing, and I'll keep reading.

Michael Strobl

Thank you so very much for this novel, which I received last week as a 78th birthday present. I’m a retired English teacher, from the days when we actually taught English Literature and I always found Shakespeare, Milton, Donne and Eliot the most rewarding because the most demanding, both of me and my students.  The greatest compliment I can give you is that I very much wish Fools and Mortals had been available as background reading for A and S level in my day.  It would have inspired everyone with a powerful sense of the excitement, the dangers and the sheer joy of working in such a new medium.  Thank you very much. I hope this is the first of a new series.

Diana Thombs

Hi, I read in a national newspaper one day last week about the London Mithraeum & immediately thought yourself and/or your readers may be interested to hear about it. If I remember rightly it opens on the 14th of November & admission is free - but an appointment needs to be made.

https://www.londonmithraeum.com/

Regards, Matt

 

Dear Sir:

 

Your books are extraordinarily accurate in detail.  To be that accurate you must prize accuracy and pursue it diligently therefore I thought I'd draw your attention to a VERY trivial sort-of-mistake.

 

It turns out chairs were quite rare in  the medieval world, much rarer than people think.  You are probably okay in "Fools and Mortals" but you'd be surprised how many inventories of wealthy households in William and Mary's era had exactly one chair per household.  And of course books set prior to that people stood or sat on stools or benches.

 

I don't particularly expect you to believe me - I'm just an ex-furniture builder and a bit of a museum hound. You may want to ask a curator next time you're at the V&A or any other good museum for more details.

 

Anyway, I think I've read everything you ever wrote, even buying Fools and Mortals in pre-release.  You have afforded me - and several million other people - much enjoyment and for that I thank you.

 

cheers

james romanow

Hello,

my name is Giovanni and I would like to congratulate you for all your work and thank you for writing such wonderful books. I was not very interested in reading but since I met Saxon Chronicles and traveled in the history of Uhtred I started to love literature, but I do not intend to stop reading at the end of the novel, as said all his works are beautiful, very hospitable for showing me this new world and sorry for the english not being very good. Brazil loves you

Hello Bernard

 

As I've, almost, read the entire Last Kingdom Series I thought it would only be right to send my thanks for these books.

 

I live in Winchester, very close to where Hyde Abbey would of stood. We often imagine that Alfred the Great's bones may still be under our feet as we walk across the car park to the park.

 

The books have really highlighted to myself just how pivotal Alfred's actions were to securing our country, just as the Battle of Britain was over 1000 years later.

 

For Wessex!

 

Darren Collins