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Dear Mr Cornwell
I have just come across your books and have added you to my (quite long) reading list.  I am quite interested in 1356 - sounds very interesting.  I look forward to checking out your other books and recommending them to family and friends
I hope this email finds you well
Thank you for your time
Melissa

Mr. Cornwell,
While reading your latest musings you stated that:
" I do plan to write more Sharpe books. No, my next project is (yet) another series which, I hope, will run in tandem with the Uhtred stories."

Well as you also wrote " I get older and time ahead shrinks".  Well of course that is true for all of us.

So for very selfish reasons, I implore that you concentrate on Uhtred and if you must divert yourself, then additional Sharpe stories would of course be most welcome.  However developing a new series would take you away from this valuable projects and force your devoted fans to wait 'far' too long for additional stories.

Regards and thanks,
Dan

Dear Mr Cornwell
After serving in the Armed Forces in Iraq and around the world I found during my various tours and deployments that I actually had a lot of what we call 'down time'. With nothing of recreation to do and with the worries/stresses and horrors of an active tour I found solitude in reading your many works. Your attention to detail and factual knowledge are second only to your splendid writing style that makes putting one of your books down a challenge in itself. I honestly believe that without your books, especially the Warlord Chronicals and Saxon Stories, I would have succumbed to the strains of active service as when back at base your books became my 'Safe Place'.
Yours
Gary

I found your books a few years ago and have since begun buying them up and reading them over and over again.  I would just like to say that they are not only informative but very entertaining as well.  Thank you for writing these books.
Stephen Baker

Dear Mr Cornwell,
I have just finished reading ,Stonehenge.It was the first book of yours I have read.I will be down to the book shop next week-end to buy my next read.Pure enjoyment,I certainly intend to read all you have wrote,hope there are others in the pipeline.
Kind regards
Tony Hicks

1356:  Still great, but it feels different. Something about the style. I think I've read everything you've published. Many books twice, even three times. 1356 feels different. Still good; still enjoyable, but different. The writing seems crisper, more abrupt and some of the idiom just doesn't feel like Bernard Cornwell. Change happens. I know we never step into the same river twice. Keep writing as long as you can and I'll keep reading.

rs

As a matter of coincidence, Total War game developers Creative Assembly are based in Horsham, Sussex - the very place where the 95th Rifles began as an 'experimental' unit! Napoleon: Total War features these Greenjackets (although, sadly, no sign of Richard Sharpe).
Robert Douglas

Greetings from sunny Guernsey!

I have seen many people recommending to you the US TV series The Vikings. Please don't get too excited. The authenticity is dreadful, both the costumes and their portrayal of Norse / Saxon society. It should be dubbed as pure fantasy.

As a Northumbrian in exile this upsets me terribly. Some holes in the series so far:
-They make out the Norse didn't know where England was; that the land to the east was empty.
-The local Jarl carries out public executions on his freemen / drengr, which just didn't happen in Norse society at the time (banishment / outlaw being the highest punishment at the time).
-One fellow wears some sort of leather pirate-style justaucorps great coat, another wears armour made from bits of bike chain. The main character seems to be wearing a Karate Gi and princess hair band.

And quite frankly the story isn't particularly that intriguing. Just a friendly warning, but by all means watch it if you fancy a giggle and some mindless action akin to Conan.

It seems that Hollywood still has a lot to answer for... at least there hasn't been a horned helmet just yet...

Nick

Dear Bernad,

Thank you so much for the huge pleasure your books about
the Vikings, Uhtred and King Alfred the Great have given me.

Conny Moberg,
Sweden.

Dear Mr. Cornwell,
Thank you very much for the brilliant Uhtred saga!  As a foreigner I was not much interested in english history before, but you made change this.
So I can hardly wait for the next book. To read them gives me the impression to ride next to Uhtred's side while he´s making his way to the fields of Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria to Bamburgh castle.. I wish, soon you will meet Peter Jackson and you will make a spectacular movie!
Greetings from Germany!
Patrick Netsch