Bulletin Board

Mr. Cornwell

I own almost every one of your book. I myself am a military man and have a passion for history. As a youth and early in my adult years I found it boring to spend my evenings reading. However, since I discovered your works I have come to relish my time sitting and exploring the worlds of Starbuck, and Thomas of Hookton, Mr Sharpe, and my personal favorite Uhtred, to mention a few. I just want to say thank you for your works. I am excited to see what is in store for Uhtred in your next book!

Brian Bradshaw

Bernard:

Really enjoy reading your stuff. Especially the Richard Sharpe novels. I never get tired of his adventures, the battles, the fisticuffs, the tricks, the wenches, Sgt. Harper, the Duke, the descriptions and thrilling plots. Pacing is excellent. Few things are better than sitting down with an RS novel, even if I have read it a few times before. Particularly like stuff like the escape, the company and the regiment. And I luv getting getting revenge on the bad guys. (Hakeswill scared me a little and I didn't like him. He seemed to be a Superman.) Please keep at it. Will read everything you write.

Kent Spencer

Big Fan from Vancouver, Canada

Enjoyed your work but having spent time working horses find the blunt instrument to the mouth of a charging horse as a maneuver destined for disaster.  I've been bitten stomped and kicked by quarter horses, mules and thoroughbreds.  I think Sharpe or Hook would have gotten knocked on their ass, bitten or missed the target.  Just my opinion but even 50 years ago in my prime it was easier to spook an equestrian with a feint than get their attention with your best physical punch.

James Awhite

Dear Mr Cornwell,

I've been a big fan for many years. I'm currently enjoying the Saxon Chronicles. When I began them of course I was completely unaware of the content but was surprised to realise that the treaty of chippenham/wedmore is featured tangentially. I have been doing my family genealogy and used a function in ancestry.com that allows you to plot occurrences of your family name since 1841 on a map of England. I then pulled all of the wills from the national archives and plotted them on the same map. I have to admit I was somewhat astonished to see that after over 1100 years my family name (apparently an old Saxon name) still mirrors that line drawn between Alfred and Guthrum. If you are interested the results can be seen here http://www.cgpublishing.com/Godwin/county.jpg . Anyway, thank you for so many wonderful books. To the best of my knowledge I own all of them!

Yours sincerely

Robert Godwin

Mr. Cornwell:

I am writing to you, like most people, to tell you I love your books.  I love them so much; I read them constantly and over and over again, and you have the wildest ideas compacted into the best times in history coupled with bright, intelligent, individual characters and excellent writing.

Now that the part that you've seen two million times is over, I have to say Agincourt is my favorite of all of them.  I first read the Shakespeare version, then was looking out for anything King Henry the Fifth, archers, or Agincourt when your book caught my eye.  I took it down off the shelf, read it in about a day, then read it again, because its greatness is all due to the amazing author that is you.

I was re-reading it yesterday, a Sunday, and researching little facts I found interesting.  For example, I watched a short video on King Henry's scar that you highlight.  I wasn't sure whether you had made it up (what was I THINKING) to make the story richer, or whether he actually had a scar from a bodkin arrowhead.  I looked it up and found this, which was incredibly interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Nef1siUus

I also read the notes at the end, and was hooked (Hook - bad pun, very sorry) on the fact that all the characters besides Thomas Perrill were actual real people that fought in Agincourt.  I did some research on this as well and found this website: http://www.medievalsoldier.org/search_musterdb.php

If you search a name, rank, surname, time in history, etc, it will pull of a list of people, their year, their rank, their battle, their position in battle, etc., and I researched Nicholas Hook, who was an archer in 1415 under the captain of Sir John Grey de Ruthin.

I'm trying to find the books by Anne Curry and the other authors you mention to read, because this book started me on a wild adventure of The Hundred Year's War research.

Before your book, my grasping of Agincourt and the events before and after were a bit cloudy, because, you know, Shakespeare (I did really love the Into the Breach Speech and the St. Crispin's day Speech though).  And then I read your book and the events at Agincourt and leading up to it were put into dazzling clarity.

I just wanted to say, thank you for also writing your other books (I LOVE the Saxon Tales/ Last Kingdom series and the Sharpe books), because I love history, historical fiction, and great writing in one.

Thanks so much for your time if you actually did rad this email,

Sophie Quick

Hello

I do not want anything Mr Cornwell but I thought you may like to know that I bought 'The Last Kingdom' for my brother who enjoys an historical novel, and by chance Amazon sent me two copies (I realised later I paid for two copies but that's neither here nor there). I am a teacher in a school and try very hard to promote reading as part of our literacy strategy. Being between books I took your novel to school for our weekly 'Drop Everything and Read' session on a Friday morning and was unable to put it down until it was finished. Firstly, I was driven by frustration: what town was being referenced again?? But a couple of chapters in and I had found my bearings. I loved it. I have the next two instalments ready to read and cannot wait to delve into the adventures of the young and impulsive Uhtred, who behaves, how I think many of us would like to: from the heart and without fear of consequences, with passion and with vigour!

I just thought it might be nice to have someone say they were enjoying your work (I promise I don't have a manuscript).

Here's to many hours absorbed in a time long passed with your characters. Thanks - and don't stop writing!

Danielle x

I'm very delighted with the Uhtred's saga. Nowadays I'm start to reading the vol. 6, and here in Brazil, the saga called The Saxon Chronicles.

I'm a very fan of your books, and I've read almost of them released in Brazil.

My favorites are The winter king's, Grail quest plus 1356 book and now the last kingdom ones.

I'm very excited to see the warriors of the storm, but there's no a clear horizon to see it here in the next months.

Take care, and thank you to entertain me with all of your novel books..

Fabio

It's funny, as much reading as I do, I have never written to a single author of any of the stories that I love. That ends now, and you are my first. I am simply writing to thank you, for the incredibly wonderful, paradoxically cruel and loving, foolish and intelligent character of Uhtred of Bebbanburg! Uhtred, who now, finally and again, (and I cannot wait), has business in the north. I love historical fiction, and for some reason had never come across your stories. Thank the gods I did. I never thought I could love a series with so many horses dying, such sword fighting and shield walls, and I do, very much! Fate is inexorable, and I was fated to find your stories. Thank you.

Suzanne Scott

I am reading the ninth book in the series of the saxon chronicles, and just to let you know I think they are brilliant. can't put them down. well done.

kind regards

David

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

I am a lifelong student of history, and can't adequately tell you how much I appreciate your work.  I am especially drawn to your Saxon and Arthurian series.  I don't believe illustrated versions are available, but if they were, and the illustrations were serious, I would buy them, and I imagine many others would as well.  I am thinking of illustrations along the lines of those in the Osprey military history books.

That's my thought.  Thank you so much for the countless hours of reading pleasure you have given me over the years.

Cheers,

Joel Parkes