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Dear Mr Cornwell

This is the first time I have ever taken it upon myself to contact an author. I'm not about to flatter you disgracefully or offer you plot suggestions. I'm not going to ask for a book to be signed or advice about a publisher. I just wanted to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed the Thomas Hookton stories. They appeal to me, as do any well written books from this period of time. More Thomas Hookton please. That's all.

Yours hopefully,

Wil Robinson

Bernard,

I wanted to tell you how I have enjoyed your books. As an avid reader of historical fiction involving the Roman through Medieval periods, your stories are among those I have enjoyed most.

After having read another author's version of the Arthurian myth in which all characters at different points converted to Christianity (and mangling so many Celtic myths in the process), for whatever reason he may have had, your tales were certainly more enjoyable. Through the characters' struggles and choices, as well as the crude manner in which some of the characters speak and act, I found them more authenic and could relate to them as well.

I could go on, but my message is simple: Thank you for your great books, and I am looking forward to the next installment in the Saxon Stories.

- Anthony

Count me among the legions waiting for the next Starbuck novel. I haven't bought any of your books since 1997 basically for that reason; it just felt like doing so would encourage a continued "distraction" with other projects and then I'd never get to see what happens to Starbuck next! I say that tongue only partly in cheek.

It's been almost twenty years. Soon, surely? Please?
Josh

Dear Bernard

I've read many, many of your books and loved all of them. I just finished the King Arthur Series and I really have to say that it was the MOST EPIC READ EVER!!!!

please keep it up!!!

Regards

Chris Woolcott

Johannesburg
South Africa

I've just watched a BBC documentary on Aethelflaed, lady of the mercians!
What a lady,  what a queen!
It seems almost she has been lost to history. The presenter said we may not have had an England without her!
This era, Alfred the great family including Aethelflaed, should in my humble opinion be taught to school kids here in the UK.
Thanks for bringing her to life in your books!
Best regards
Neal

Hi Bernard,

I just wanted to say thank you for writing books that i simply can't put down.

I haven't finished a book for a very long time (work + 10 month old child usually make sure of that) but i picked up a copy of The Burning Land the other day and I finished it within a week.  Simply brilliant.  I love the series.

I just ordered Death of Kings and 1356 to satisfy my newly renewed bookworm hunger, so again, thank you for doing what you do.

There's no better way to escape the drudgery of the morning commute than to don some imaginary chain mail and trusty sword and rush head first into battle!

Thanks.

Adam

Dear Bernard,

I am very much looking forward to reading the next saga of Uhtred's adventures and the formation of England.  The historian Michael Wood has just started a three part documentary on Alfred and his immediate successors. For readers of your book there are lots of familiar names.  I do not know if you have access to the BBC I Player in the States but the Programme is on BBC 4 at 9 pm (British Time) on Wednesday.  The only thing missing is Uhtred but I guess he would have a slightly different version of events..
Andrew

Dear Mr Cornwell,

many thanks for the great Saxon chronicles.These books put me on the path to reading my first ever read of a novel so to speak..And also sent me on a great journey of learning.I one day decided to start reading and came across your books the Saxon Chronicles and brought all six and read them feverishly one after the other,I got so caught up in the story of Uhtred of Bebbanburg and relate to him very well being a warrior myself in the modern sense,and it is completely true that once a warrior always a warrior it is always and forever in you and you really never settle back into a normal life as all you want to do is fight battles.So i went on a quest to all the places in England mentioned in your books all the battle sites the abbeys and tombs etc a kind of chasing Alfred and sons round the country spent alot of time in whiltshire.Even today when i visited these sites of battle and the seats of saxon power i get shivers and can easily image what went on..I love the
romance of it all and can understand the hardship faced by the warriors so many thanks for that.Also how over joyed i was to learn of the new book as i was sad for a long time when i finished the last one and had to leave Uhtred.its amazing how these story's get inside you..I like to think i am very much like Uhtred a person and warrior who would fight for a just cause but deep down a big softie with a big heart.i started to read the starbuck chronicles (he is no Uhtred but still a soldier/warrior)but have now gone back to re-read Death of kings,one to say hello again to Uhtred but also to get warmed up for the new book.

Thankyou for all,

Anthony

I am about to finish Heretic. I need more of Thomas. Please keep this character. THANKS!

Connie Naqvi

I remember standing on the battlements of Bamburgh Castle and thinking it looked nothing like Bebbanburg must have looked to Uhtred, but I could see it in my mind's eye after having read every book (to date) in the Warrior Chronicles.
LIkewise, I have never stood in a shield wall and experienced the battle joy, except in my mind when I have read your descriptions.
I am a student of history, particularly English history, but the Grail Quest series brought that period into sharper relief than anything I had ever read before.
As you may have guessed by now I've written everything you've ever written and thoroughly enjoyed them all.  The order is already in for The Pagan Lord and I look forward to reading it with my usual relish.
Keep it up - I'll be ready for my next Cornwell fix as soon as I read the last word on the last page ......
Mike Birkett