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No response necessary, I just wanted to tell you how much I love your books. I get them in audio format, so that I can listen while I work, and many of your books I have listened to multiple times. I also recommend them to everybody I know.

Keep up the good work!

Liz Nash

Dear Bernard

I thought this Napoleonic Series Article on Suvorov's Italian Campaign might be of interest to read https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/battles-campaigns/the-1799-campaign-in-italy-24/

Geraint

Dear Mr Cornwell.

I have no doubt you receive thousands of messages like this but this is the first letter of appreciation I've written to an author.

I wanted simply to thank you for the many hours of enjoyment your books have given me.

I have always enjoyed historical novels (The Flashman series brought  me great joy)  but for some reason I only recently began to read Sharpe and have quickly devoured every one! That , in turn, lead me to the Grail Quest series,  Last Kingdom  and the Starbuck Chronicles.

How someone can develop such a breadth of historical knowledge and turn it into such great story telling is , to my mind, simply astonishing.

What I really love is the fact that I have come to learn so much about historical events where my knowledge was rusty to say the least. You have prompted me to research conflicts from Salamanca to Crecy to Bull Run.

I have just completed Sharpe's Assassin and am currently dealing with the sense of loss I always feel after finishing one of your books !

Once again, many thanks for all you have written.

Sincerely,

Bob Walker

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

My name is Wayne Hoffman. I'm a petty officer in the US Navy currently stationed in Korea. My brother and I are absolutely obsessed with the Sharpe series. Honestly it's a bit of an inspiration for me. I never see myself as a leader, but seeing Sharpe rise from the ranks and needing to learn how to be a good leader, it makes me think that I could learn too someday. Thank you so much for your wonderful stories, they're so gripping I read them faster than I've read a book series in many years because I simply cannot stop.

Sincerely,

Wayne Hoffman

Very sorry to hear that your dog Whiskey died. A good dog is a blessing and the passing of one hurts. The only solace is they had a good life while they were with us.

Regards,

Ralland (Ron) Fortier

Just about to read my first Sharpe book, but have seen the tv series a number of times.  It’s on again at the moment on Saturday evening at 2030 hrs, loving it, I will see if it is on anyway similar to your books, and maybe you might personally dislike tv interpretations of your story, but I must say I particularly love it, hope you're keeping well.

Michael Carroll

Hi there.

I’m a huge fan of Sharpe, I learned to love reading as a youngster by listening to the Sharpe books on audio cassettes from my library.  Once they stopped being available, I transitioned to paper copies (sharpe’s enemy onwards) I loved the William Gaminara readings, I was hugely disappointed with Sean Bean as Sharpe, despite liking him in other things. Sharpe was a Londoner dark haired and tall. Not short blond Yorkshireman!

I was really excited to listen to the new book Sharpe’s Assassin. (While working out doors)  However the narrator read Sharpe as a Sean Bean imitation and Harper as northern Irish. I’m gutted!

That said I love the Arthur books (I currently live in north wales) as well as the Grail Quest books

Keep writing good books I wish they were read correctly.

Kind regards

Peter a little boy of 41 years

Dear Mr Cornwell

I have just recently read from start to finish every Sharpe novel and short story in chronological order for the first time and I'm messaging to express how much I greatly enjoyed reading all of them including your newest book Sharpe's Assassin. I found i couldn't put them down and i have loved every second of reading these amazing stories. Thank you

Kind regards

Tom

Hi, I wrote a wee while back about a similar thing that I am going to mention now.  I am thoroughly enjoying The Last Kingdom series of books and am now on The Empty Throne.  I love to get into the nitty gritty of a book and will regularly go back to a different stage in a book or indeed a previous book in the series to refamiliarise myself with an event or character.  I really appreciate when a time line or family tree continues throughout a book and you can map it in your head as you read.  Unfortunately I am disappointed that in the empty throne Stiorra is said to be Uhtred’s youngest when in sword song Uhtred is bouncing her up and down when Giesla tells him she is pregnant with Osbert / Uhtred. Also it says that Athelflaed is 40 or so but she can’t be if Young Uhtred says her daughter is just younger than him and he says he’s 21.  I know that by the history books she was meant to be 43 in 912 so I’m guessing at times you are trying to keep in line with history but this hasn’t always worked out with the characters and their timelines.  Many thanks as I say I am thoroughly enjoying the books and can’t put them down really but just felt compelled to write this.

Louisa Lennen

Dear Mr Cornwell,

I am 34 years old and first met the illustrious Lt Col as is at the tender age of about 8 or 9 when I was probably too young to stay up watching Sean Bean, Daragh O Malley and John Tams wage war across Europe on  itv on my grandfather's knee..

I later found the books and have bought multiple copies of each over the years as I've worn them out.

Thank you so much for Sharpe's Assassin... It was the perfect mix of characters, made me laugh gasp and wince in all the right places... Like a catch up with a missed old friend... Please let the march continue!

Thank you

Sarah Lee