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After watching The Last Kingdom season 1, I had to search the basis for it, your books..read them all, having to wait for 10th for quite awhile. Thank you for those books, i enjoyed them soo much.  Am currently watching the second season and hoping that the 11th book is not too too far in the distance..Be well.

Denise Marcucci

Our brief chat (not to mention the photo) following the Shakespeare and War discussion last night was a long-awaited pleasure.  I have been an enthusiastic reader of your books for many years -- all the Sharpe novels, the Archer's Tale series, and now the Saxon Stories. We took a bus tour down the Northumberland coast during our recent visit to Edinburgh; prevailed on the driver to stop by Bamburg Castle (was also impressed by the view of it from Lindisfarne -- talk about grim solitude).

 

Still, I think my favorite may be The Fort.  It truly brought to life my encounter with the little monument in Castine all those years ago!

 

I will look for other events when you are in town, or on our occasional visits to Cape Cod.  With best wishes,

 

Gregg Rubinstein

Andy Phillips - Pastor - Open Door Church, Sunbury again:

So I have read since 1st week of July :

9 Saxon Chronicles books

Azincourt

1356

 

Utterly brilliant books - love them! Can hear a bit of Uthred in Thomas when he wonders is there is an omen at times. Love your knowledge of the bible  - in 1356 - Pg 423 - Isa iash 2:4 and Malachi 4:3. Beign a Evangelical reading your books really helps!

 

Keep going - brilliant! I cannot tell you how much joy reading these gives me!

 

Thanks mate!

 

Andy

Dear Mr Cornwell,

 

If you are reading this e-mail, let me first thank you for the time you are giving me right now. I realize you must be extremely busy and I highly appreciate your consideration.

 

Let me also thank you and mostly for the Warlord Chronicles. I have for a long time enjoyed historical fictions and wished to write in this genre, but only after reading your trilogy have I found the inner urge to start my work. I am only an amateur writer and as you can see English is not my mother tongue, but I found in your novels the elements and emotions I wish to share in my stories as well, and if one day a reader feels as I felt while reading your story, by reading mine, I will consider myself successful.

 

I hope you will find the time and the will to reply to my message and that we may correspond. In any case, I will keep enjoying your novels, currently the Saxon Stories, and if one day I have the chance to get my work published I hope you will enjoy reading it.

 

Kind regards,

 

Baptiste

I read with intrigue the letter from Matt Copley (Submitted April 5, 2017).

I sleep listening to your audiobooks on my MP3 player. Many, many times I have found myself in the middle of one of your stories in a dream. I can tell you, reading them is great, actually being in the story is even better though I have sometimes woken suddenly about to be killed. Strange but true!

David M

Dear Bernard

 

From an earlier question about you being approached by other authors to write a Sharpe or Starbuck story.

 

I am sure you will be aware that "Sharpe" has made a number of appearances in other author's books

 

"A tall rifles officer, called Richard, carrying a rifle like a ranker" from the Fields of Death by Simon Scarrow

 

Arthur Wellesley musing on the field commission given to a sergeant Sharpe following the battle of Assaye in a Doctor Who story called Worlds End

 

Best wishes

 

Steven

Hi Bernard,

 

this is Duschan from Germany and I love your books :-)

 

I am afraid I am more than 10 years late for the party - however, as a big fan of your Sharpe novels I wondered if there would be any opportunity of a new novel any time?

 

I was thinking about the past 1821 time line (Sharpe being in France if I remember well). There could be a potential for Sharpe to take part of the Greek War of Independence. That would give him another 11 years of conflicts around the Greeks breaking free from the Ottoman Empire. From an international perspective France got engaged. And as a French resident in his 40ies this may qualify Sharpe to take part.

I must admit that this “opportunity” is me wishful thinking….

Anyway - thanks a lot for countless hours of joy reading your novels. You are one of my favorite authors.

kind regards

Duschan

Imagine a civil war, the very worst kind of war. Friends fighting friends, brothers on opposite sides and even fathers estranged from sons! The people of "poor America" have been poised at the precipice of ultimate loss or ultimate victory for twenty odd years! It must be knackering, I know it is for me.

Mr Cornwell I am a great fan, I first came to your novels when I was a teenager in too Dungeons and Dragons and fantasy (it was all the rage back then) I tried your King Arthur trilogy having become interested in the story by reading David Gemmell's Ghost King and Last Sword of Power. I loved your take, it was realistic and in period. You avoided the trap of mysticism and of course the shining armour of a period several hundred years off and presented a true vision of Dark Age Britannia. Most of all I loved your realistic battle scenes they were gritty and bloody, something very "new" back then. From there I moved to Sharpe and on to the Fort and others. Your novels seem to have been with me all my life. I recently had a heart attack and a quadruple bypass and since I seem to be reading the same novels I once read again. I expect you know what is coming..... Nathaniel Starbuck, I just finished the audio versions (well read and just as good as I remember) and the series is screaming out to be finished. The format of one or two major battles per novel leads us to anticipate Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and of course Gettysburg, the Wilderness the siege of Petersburg. No doubt Starbuck would have found a reason for an excursion to the West, perhaps for the fall of Vicksburg or Atlanta. I don't know I just know that I miss Nate and I feel he like me deserves to know his fate before he dies. Something of a blatant manipulation I know but I have been waiting twenty years. Seriously though, I love everything you write and will continue to wait with bated breath for any novel you release just I hope it will soon be the next in the Starbuck chroncles, a series I believe could be as popular as the mighty Sharpe series or the stories of Uhtred of Bebbanburg if it were just completed.

 

Yours sincerely

Stuart

Dear Mr Cornwell,

It is giving me great pleasure to write this thank you note. I have read a great many of your novels. They all inspire and instruct my thirst for history.

Many years ago I flew to Madrid, hired a car, and began exploring Spain and Portugal using the sites of the Peninsular war as the basis of the itinerary. Amongst other fascinating places were Badajoz, Salamanca, Almeida and, of course Bussaco - staying at that amazing hotel that I suspect you got to know quite well!

I just wanted to thank you for putting all this colour into these extraordinary events.

I'm currently really enjoying The Last Kingdom on tv.

That was it really, just thanks!

Please keep writing...!

Very best wishes,

Perry

Dear Mr Cornwell.

My sons and I are real fans of your books. As a serving British soldier I have taken your books on tours of Afghanistan and Kosovo and they have provided me with a way to relax and escape. We have all read the Sharpe series, Starbuck Chronicles, Winter king series, Last Kingdom series and the Grail Quest.  I've also read Gallows Thief, Fort, and other one offs.  I just want to say thanks for your books.  We often talk about what your next series should be but can see why you don't want ideas.  I look forward to your next book and wish you luck with your next endeavour.

David Garner