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Sr. Bernard Cornwell.

Lhe escrevo para agradecer os momentos felizes que me proporciona com suas narrativas. Um brasileiro sentir-se numa parede de escudos saxã é algo surreal. Ler suas obras é muito prazeroso, chego a "desconectar" do mundo real.

Mais uma vez, obrigado!

Gilberto Pinheiro da Rocha

Thank you for getting me back into reading. About five years ago I picked up the Saxon Stories as a pool side activity and have been an avid reader ever since. Your books  keep me fixed to the page and have encouraged me to investigate the different periods of history that they cover. Uhtred is a great character, a horrible but lovable hero that I would want to stand next to in a shield wall! Thanks again.

Ross Orchard

Mr Cornwell,

Just read The Flame Bearer.  As with all your Saxon stories, I was eagerly looking forward to it and I was not disappointed.  Fantastic stuff reflecting an enthralling period of history.  My only regret was binging on it in less than a day.   My family historians tell me that I am most likely a distant descendant of Alfred the Great (as is probably quite a large percentage of Britain!) through Malcolm III of Scotland’s marriage to Margaret of Wessex.  Just adds a little something to my fascination with pre-Norman Englaland.

Thank you for The Flame Bearer.  I trust you are working on a sequel…

Andy, ex-patriot from Tasmania (which sometimes itself exhibits rather alarming medieval tendencies)

 

i love your books i just devour them i've always been a fan of historical fiction.  i wasnt sure about books on battles im a fan of phillipa gregory. but i am so so glad i gave you a chance.  ive read all the saxon tales cant wait for the new book. im so excited ive read the grail quest.  and now im starting on your sharpe books cant wait.  with your descriptions of battles are just amazing.  so keep them coming and thank you for having such a great mind ;-)

Janine

just a few lines to say a big thank you for the pleasure your books have given me over the years I await  your next one  my only regret  I wait a year and read it in a day carry on the great work

D Clark

Purchase of Officers Commissions -

Actually, I believe I have read that the system of the purchase of officer commissions was actually intended as a "reform" based on the experience of having England living under what was in effect a military government during the Oliver Cromwell.  By showing they could pay a substantial sum for their commissions, it was thought that officers would be solid citizens, with a genuine stake in England, and not just military adventurers out for what their rank could get them.

Jim Dickey

Have just read Frances Hardy's interview with you and published in the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3861316/The-father-beat-till-bled-Sharpe-author-books-loved-millions-subjected-horrific-abuse-Christian-zealots-adopted-boy.html) in which she mentions your first book being 'Sharpe's Evil'.  I know you haven't published one under this title, so perhaps you had better make it clear to your readers who may think otherwise.

David Coote

Most of what I read, sadly, takes effort. I'm trying to improve on my choices. Your stories are the exception -- probably because I pick up a bit of knowledge as I read---just enough to make the tale sound real, while assuaging my self-imposed duty not to read solely for entertainment.

Tim O'Neill

I saw you in York (I was the guy who asked about getting boys to read).  I've been researching my family tree especially my grandfathers line, Seward.  it's  looking like I'm descended from Earl Siward, who was married to Ælfflæd, the daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Bamburgh, who was of course the son of Uhtred.

Neil Newsome

Really like the Last Kingdom series.  And one of the things that makes me smile is the parts when Uhtred looks back over his life.  Because if Uhtred (son of Uhtred) has himself a son called Uhtred, then I don't know who is doing the looking back ....

Richard Potter