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Please, please hurry up with Vol 11 of the Last Kingdom. I have not got much longer to live, and if I die before Uhtred I shall die a bitter unfulfilled man.

Slightly joking, but basically true!!

Bless you for the many years of happy reading (and learning).

all best wishes

Tony Soar

Hi Mr. Cornwell.

In a recent post, you commented that you were not sure that you would ever get back to Starbuck.  This distresses me more than I can express.  It is terrible to leave a series forever unfinished.  I feel so strongly about this that I would urge you to do a two-novels-a-year blitz on Starbuck once you are finished with Uhtred.  This would allow you to complete Starbuck in about five years.  You should do this even if it makes it necessary to take a hiatus from your performances at the Monomoy Theatre.  My reasoning is that performing in a play is fun and people enjoy it for an evening, but pretty much forget it within a few weeks.  The completed Starbuck series will be a legacy that will last decades past your lifetime.

Alan Kempner

 

Hi Bernard,

Wow! The opening chapter of "Death of Kings" really brought back some memories.

Whilst studying for A level geography in the sixties I chose to undertake a field study project to locate and map holy wells within a few miles of my home town Bletchley, Bucks. My Grandfather had told me about the spring at Buckingham and this was my starting point. St Rumbold/Rumwald/Rumbald - who could be sure? Not only that - locals suggested 3 different sites for the spring! Within my local area I also studied St Vincent's and St Garrick's wells near Stony Stratford, St John's at Old Bletchley and Holy Wells at Stantonbury, Ravenstone, Olney and Cranfield. The early Christian Church in the area really seems to have the "miracle spring" market sewn up!

I am grateful for yet more evidence of your painstaking historical detail.

Best wishes,

Bram.

Dear Mr Cornwell,

 

I just wanted to express my extreme gratitude to you for you excellent books. My father and I both enjoy them so very much! From Sharpe to Uhtred, your characters and descriptive writings transport us back to the times of our ancestors. In a world of technological gizmos, your stories have reignited in me a love of reading books again, as well as a new-found interest in history. I look forward to your next works, as well as your suggested  books from other writers. Thank you Mr Cornwell.

 

Kind regards,

Joel (and my father Bazza) from Australia

 

Dear sir

I would just like to say thank you I have only ever read one book in my life at school this was until I picked up a sharpe book just to past the time one day and since then I have not been able to stop I since read ever sharpe book and now just finishing the Starbucks's ones I just wanted to thank you as if it was not for your wonderful books I would have never of bothered to read a book and experience my mind being tangled up in the pages of a great book

many thanks

James Hayden

. I bought Waterloo about four months ago with the intent of reading it over the five days (June 14-19, 2017) which I just accomplished. I have over the past 30 years read most of your books. It was a joy to read a nonfiction history by you. The book read like a novel and as an avid reader of history I found "Waterloo" one of best I have ever read. And the telling made clear much of the battle that other accounts fail to do. Needless to say I thoroughly enjoy "The Last Kingdom" both books and the TV series. Looking forward to your future endeavors. All the best and may you live much longer than myself.

Mark Bigham

I'm a big fan of all of Bernard's books.

Rafael GangreL

Just as a matter of interest:  Lord Cochrane is one of five names on my house deeds when the land was first bought in 1811.  The others are Thomas's  brother Archibald and his wife to be Hannah Jayne Mowbray plus her father Arthur Mowbray and a John Mowbray who I cannot identify.  Arthur Mowbray was a banker who got involved in purchasing land.  I live in a small village near Durham City in England which had a lot of coal mines in the 19th century and I know that the 14 houses in my area were part of the purchase.  The land changed hands for the next century till houses were finally built on it in the 1920's when it was bought by the cooperative movement to house their heads of department.  Right up to the 20th century there was a Cochrane involved in ownership of this land and most of them were  high up in the navy or army.  Could this have been bought by prize money I ask myself?  They may have bought other land in the area but my deeds only cover this particular acre.

Just on a personal note many thanks for your novels which I enjoy, only wish that I had this history education when I was at school many years ago!

David Young

I have just made my third? fourth? visit to The Fort. The ending doesn't change, of course, but I continue to respect for Wadsworth his devotion and unremarkable level of competence, while holding Revere and Lovell to account for their myriad failings. What I would really like to do is share a jar of claret with McLean. What a conversation that would be! So, I"ll leave them on the shelf for a year or two and look forward to visiting them again. A tip: watch out for that John Moore fellow. I hear he's going places.

Robert Kent

Really enjoyed this book.I am a Direct Descendent 33 Generations of Uchtred a Saxon Thane who fought in the Battle of Hastings and retained his Title and Lands.

This was confirmed by our Family Genealogist Richard Lee Bradshaw.

Thank you again for a Great read!

Robert Dennis Bradshaw