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Mr Cornwell,

I have read all your books and love the attention to historical fact you use and explain in the final section of your books.  I have just learned of the TV series for The Last Kingdom and it is wonderful.  Having read the books makes that even more the case ... please hurry them up for season 2 as I'm about done with season 1. I read your autobiography and learned of your connection to that era.  Best wishes

Keith Ott

Hello Mr Cornwell

I have been watchin a series on Netflix called The Last Kingdom. I really love history so I was greatly enthralled with this story. I had this feeling I had heard this story before and that it was a true story or a legend... so i read up on it... Uhtred and King Alfred... who I had never heard of till your books.. so thank you for that also. Id imagine King Alfred is very well known in England and you have done him great service in my opinion. It is true isn't it?  I can just feel it... was it Eadwulf II of Northumbria? His son was named Uhtred...Well sir regardless if it is a true story or not you have done an absolutely excellent job of portraying history during this time period. I was just thinking about the whole Viking time period and how little i really new about what happened... and next thing I know Im watching the The Last Kingdom. Thank you.

Ken Stillabower

Sir,

Coincident with reading your English historical novels, my sister informed me that on her DNA analysis that our family was mostly English and not really German at all!  I read your novels thereafter with increased devotion.   I have learned so much from your books and I think I better understand why the English and their elite warriors and nobles proved to be so successful.  I had chosen to avoid reading the American series from the Confederate viewpoint, in that I did not like that American experiment at creating a landed gentry, but maybe I should read those novels now that I know my forefathers were quite possibly the bastard children of English gentry.  Keep writing amazing works of literary art!

Mark Hiser

Mr. Cornwell,

I have read all of your books and the have brought me much enjoyment. I was really impressed with the casting for the BBC presentation of your books. The characters in the series truly mirror the descriptions and spirit of your books. This is too often not the case during the transition from the written page to the screen.

I look forward to the next installment, as well as your next book.

Thank you for making history come to life.

Richard Kadien

Dear Mr Cornwell,

this is a simple message of thanks. I have read all of the Grail Quest and Sharpe series of books and I am well on the way to completing the Last Kingdom.  Your books have been Christmas, Fathers Day and Birthday gifts from my family and have given me many, many hours of relaxation and fun.  I love history and you have fired an interest in periods that I was never previously interested in, causing me to read books on Waterloo, Wellington etc.  (I recently found that Wellington donated his memoirs to my local museum in sleepy Much Wenlock  Shropshire).  Being an ex Christian and devout atheist I especially liked your Cakes & Ale article as well as the way you have framed Uhtreds outlook on life.  Once again may thanks and keep writing.

Kind regards

Jim

 

Just wanted to thank you for making my year of reading so great.  I have read five books from the Saxon series and am excited that there are even more!

That's about it.

Tom

Good day Sir Bernard Cornwell!

I'm Kevin from the Philippines. I'll be honest. 1356 and The Fort are your only books i have read so far. I got those from a bookshop which only sells second-hand books. Regular bookshops don't have your books, unfortunately. I liked 1356 and The Fort and so I started collecting your books but I can only buy at this particular bookshop. Finding your books is like a game of luck for me. Until now, I haven't yet completed any of the series, but I hope in time I will. I won't make this long. Best of luck!

 

Hi Mr Cornwell,

I have almost finished Death of a King and the storyline of the Saxon stories is just getting better and better. Uhtred is becoming more and more interesting. His insights have deepened, his grasp of life as well. Reading his adventures is so enjoyable! I have a couple of humble thoughts I would like to share  about Uhtred and my life as women in the 21st century. I worked in startup in London for 18 months and lived it because the founders were puritans and I couldn't stand it. I admire them, and they achieved a lot, but I couldn't stand the lifestyle they were embodying. I felt like Uhtred at Alfred's court many times. The meetings I had with them built on the same patterns but instead of monks, they had "experts" and "seniors" and "data analysts" :)  I have started to read historical books about the early Middle Age because to some extent it reminds me of what's happening in the technology and startup world in which I evolve at the moment. It is still the chaos of the very beginning, especially in Europe. I don't know if my thinking will get me far in my career, but at least I enjoy the ride that way :)  Your books, which I read in parallel of the older "Les Rois Maudits", also help me to understand better institutions such as the State and laws, and the privilege I have of living in a time with no wars in Europe, and lots of physical safety, if not spiritual... I can see the greed at work, I can see the economic war that's raging out there now, but at least as a woman I am mostly safe and free. And I appreciate it even more thanks to Uhtred. Thanks a lot for this enlightening and fascinating journey to the birth of the English kingdom in the 9th century! So good to have both sides, Danes and English, pagans and christians,  and thanks so much for this brilliant pagan hero!

Best regards,

Anne-Catherine

Dear Mr Cornwell,

please, please write another book about Nate, you can't let Billy Blythe get away with what he's done and is Nate going to go back and court Julia. I know he'll have to fight again but he's had a long enough rest now. I love your books. I have read all the Sharpe novels over and over, I also love the Uhtred books and hope he manages to retake Bebamburg before he's too old to appreciate it. I know you have such demanding fans as myself but it's the price you pay for being such a damn good writer, in fact in my opinion,  the best.

Sue Casey

I discovered you only a few years ago and since then I've been devouring everything I can find by you.  I'm about to finish Bloody Ground and am quite disappointed that here the story ends.  More Nate please.

Ted Forte