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Just a wee thank you. Historic novels have always been a bit of a mystery  to me. I have trouble  getting  into them... till now.

I admit I started reading after seeing  the  first episode of the last Kingdom  but I can honestly  say I love the series with a huge passion  well so far I'm on book three. I have  plans to start on Sharpe next. I read alot at night after my partner has epileptic  fits I need to  stay awake while he comes out of it. So the wonderful  characters are my friends  in the lonely hours.

Loving your work.

Keep smiling

Sonia

Bernard,

You are the only one alive I can relate to who has anything to do with the Cape. My father bought a plot of land overlooking Welfleet harbor in 1956, and I spent my early kid to teen years clamming at low tide, swimming in ocean and then Long Pond to clean off the salt, and eat my mother's chowder, which was always on the table. The years went by; my parents stopped going, I only went a few times, and then they sold it for a rather enormous price. Very sad day, as I remember it. Some memories that remain are some interesting people we met and who became family friends. For example, one day I was playing in the dune below our house (the one that held old bones and indian arrow heads under the sand), and a boy turned up from the rentals below to play with me. He turned out to be the son of John Dos Passos, the writer who was there vacationing. We visited Dos Passos' farm in Virginia outside of D.C. where we lived, and heard his stories of his adventures with F.Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and riding on a motorcycle with his lover and now wife recklessly through the mountains of Spain during the civil war then, and other stories I wished I had been able to record. He was fascinated by my mother, whose father was Charles Sheldon ("Wilderness of Denali"), founder of Denali National Park in Alaska (check out Sheldon in The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley), her ancestors were William Bradford, of the Plymouth Colony, and Israel Putnam Gulliver, famous general under Washington, and her brother William G. Sheldon, the first westerner to enter rural China in the 1930s to study the panda bear in their habitat in Sichuan Province ("The Wilderness Home of the Giant Panda") long before those furry lovelies showed up at the National Zoo in Washington, To end my meandering and hopelessly trivial tale, the Cape is special and always will be, and this little note is just a way for me to remember it and know someone I admire--got all your books! Want 'em signed before I go!--is there now enjoying that sandy heaven on earth.

Regards,

Peter S. Lunde

Hi,

 

I haven't read your book yet but surely I would. I have been a fan of any medieval-themed stories for far too long so the the tv series "The Last Kingdom" captured my attention. And I swear to Odin, I love it but even though I have read hundred of books and have watched series narrating them, I still haven't learned my lesson, it is that I should never invest feelings with a fictional character. Because just like any other author you are no different, you will attack us and snatched our joy in a snap.

 

My tender heart could not endure the pain that Erik's death have caused, I have witnessed hundreds of fictional death but here I am still, with no lessons learned.

 

I hope this will inspire you to write more, because you have the sole talent that can move your readers, and with every stories you tell, we -- your readers found an escape and I think that is magic.

 

I just hope that the stories you are about to tell will not involve a death of my favorite characters.

 

P.S

 

I usually send death threats to authors in exchange of my sadness, just kidding.

 

and Uhtred can choke to death any damn time.

 

Love and more powers to you Sir,

 

Regards,

 

Ashley

Mr Cornwell,

I know you are probably tired of people asking, but Starbucks adventures need to be concluded! There is nothing worse than an open ended story, and the books so far have been absolutely riveting. I have read most of your books, but I am still working on the Sharpe series.

I understand it takes a lot of immersing yourself into the world of the Civil War, and a return to the passion a writer has with a character. So to wheel back into it might not be where you are right now. Perhaps a collection of short stories, or even something along the line of the Kindle singles, might keep our appetite whetted?

All sagas should have a conclusion, and with Starbuck there is a hole in my imagination that I have (and seemingly others as well). I wish you well, and truly hope to see Starbuck ride again, even if the final story has a sad end.

Faithfully,

Liam Hickey

Hello,

 

I wanted to write you a letter as I feel those are more personal but decided to do this seeing as it's faster. I wanted to let you know I have never been much of a reader. I started reading the Saxon Series after I watched the first two season on Netflix and finished the book series a week later. I wanted to thank you for all the research you put into those books and all the time and effort you took developing each character and making it all so life like. You have become my favorite author and I will be reading the rest of your writings. I hope you are well and thanks again.

 

Griffin

Dear Mr. Cromwell,

 

I have read many dozens of your books and have enjoyed them tremendously.

 

Sincerely yours,

Jeffrey Blackman

Dear Bernard:

I thought you might be interested in this article about the British siege of Charleston, SC in 1780.  Not sure how close this dig is to your well "digs" but thought you'd be interested.  Please keep writing and "break a leg" this summer.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/03/revolutionary-war-musket-ball-discovered-by-south-carolina-students.html

 

Cheers,

Scott

I just finished rereading The Nathaniel Starbuck chronicles and just wanted to let you know that they are, in my opinion, among the best of your work. Though The Bloody Ground was written when I was four years old and I'm fully aware of your reasoning for shifting away from the series, I still can't kill that little nugget of hope within me that you'll revive the series one day.

Sean Wendt

Dear Mr. Cornwell.

I have been marching with Sharpe and Harper for some time now and, being Irish (though living in New York) feel perfectly in lockstep with both of them. It's interesting that you paired those sometimes at odds neighbors but, as you know I'm sure, you are not alone in doing so. Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin come immediately to mind, and while Harry Sidebottom's Marcus Clodius Ballista is no Englishman he is an Angle and his pal is Maximus the Hibernian. More than one Anglo/Irish Agreement in the literary firmament then. By the by, not sure what to do when I reach the end of the Sharpe series. Will have to read them all over again I guess. And more slowly. Thank you for your literary gifts. Best,

Ray O'Hanlon

 

May you always love your work and reflect often on the hours of pleasure your imagination gives so many people. You are deservedly blessed.

Your pen has delivered me to far away places and times... worlds away from Hugo, Oregon. Your heroes have become more heroic to me with the way you show them as striving against their human flaws and the twists of fate they face... the way we all do in everyday life, just in less spectacular circumstances. Thank you for the magic.

John Curtis