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Dear Mr Cornwell
Please please can Uhtred take Bebbanburg soon. I am concerned that Uncle Elfric will die of natural causes and Uhtred will not have the chance to kill him.
Also if you have any influence can the narrated/talking books version use the original place names rather than the modern ones. "I am Uhtred of Bamburgh does not have the same ring to it!!"
Richard

Dear Bernard,

I am reading now your last historical fiction book (Stonehenge), after this one I can only wait for the Pagan Lord or start reading your thrillers.

I really would like to recommend other readers who especially like your Saxon stories to read Conn Iggulden's emperor series. The are written in a totally different times than your books but starts like Uhtred in his younger years till growing up and becoming the Julias Ceasar we know. This is an amazing quick read but still can't the Saxon stories.

Thanks a lot for your great work and I hope you finish the Pagan Lord soon.

Peter Klaver (Netherlands)

I am writing to you from Cape Town, South Africa. I notice you were born in 1944, and I, in 1942. So we are both war babies. I am a long time fan. My great passions are collecting edged weapons and firearms, plus the Peninsula Wars and the American Civil War.I had very interesting parents. My father flew Spitfire's in the Western Desert and Italy, and my mother was a Captain in the WAAF,and ferried Spitfires. Later in life, my father became a well known big game hunter, and from 7 years of age I became his avid apprentice. At heart I am a rifleman. After many hunting trips throughout Southern Africa, I became an Army Officer and trained sniper. I wish to thank you for many years of enjoyment reading your Sharpe and Starbuck novels. You are a suburb story teller, and unlike most author's, your knowledge of military tactics and weapons is superb. I hope I did not bore you with my brief biography, but I wanted you to know that I am a reasonably knowledgeable fan. Once again, thank you!
Yours Sincerely,

Steve Theron.

Please may I plead for a novel about young Richard Sharpe pre-India.
You've dropped hints he served in Flanders, I believe.
Don't leave it too long, mate, we are all not getting any younger.

My greatest regret is that the famous Flashman's Aussie exploits were never detailed before the great George Macdonald Fraser marked it.

Chris Horn

This information might cheer Jim Ferreira up, after his name was linked to a villian. In South Africa the Ferreira family is large and well thought of - Ignatius Ferreira from Lisbon, arrived in South Africa in 1696. He arrived on the English ship Chandos. In 16/11/1735 he married Martha Terblanche and they had 12 children. The family assimilated completely into the Afrikaner nation, with their antecedants mainly Afrikaans speaking.

Regards, Steve.

I'm a new convert, having recently finished all the Saxon Chronicles that are available.  Just wanted to say how much I enjoy Uhtred's "voice" - especially your use of Anglo-Saxon literary devices like the alliteration in the first paragraph of The Last Kingdom ("wave-beaten and wild beneath the wind-driven sky").  I hope more Uhtred is coming soon - I really, really want to learn how he get back to Bamburgh.
Edith Munro

Just completed reading all three books of the Warlord Chronicles (Arthur books) for the 3rd time.  Each time more enticing than before!
Rusty Tucker

Dear Mr. Cornwell,
Two years ago I read your book "Azincourt". It was the first time I`ve read one of your books and I was completely stunned by the story and and your book writing style !
So I read many of your books: the Arthur Chronicles, Stonehenge and all of your Uhtred books. 10 minutes ago I finished the "Death Of Kings" and I´m hardly look forward to get the next book about Uhtred.
Maybe in the next holiday my family and I want to travel to Bamburgh castle (Bebbanburg), we found heaps of pictures.
I learned much about the english history of this time and I want to say very, very thank you for these excellent books in which you find a genius mixture of real history and fiction.
I want to say it again: thank you so much for your great stories !!!
Greetings

Dirk De Coninch/ Cologne, Germany

 

Bernard Cornwell,

I need Uhtred stories asap! I'm going through withdrawal symptoms. I love your books! I'm a ancient history - middle ages fan, so the The Arthur Books, Saxon Stories, and Grail Quest novels are my favorite. The Sharpe series is next on my list, but I NEED more Uhtred. Hahaha! Keep up the great writing.

Your Loyal Reader,

Ramon in California

Dear Mr Cornwell,

I have been an avid reader of your books since I first stumbled across Sharpe's Eagle in a second-hand shop in Redcar many years ago and thought "hey, I'm a history student - I really should give this a go.". Two wars, one Waterloo, a brief trip to Chile and an entire tv series later and I had exhausted Sharpe to my dismay, but then I discovered your wonderful Uhtred books, the Arthurian trilogy (which is by far the best account of that particular folklore I have ever discovered), the Grail trilogy and even, during one seven-hour delay at Hamburg airport, your excellent book The Fort.

Suffice to say, I have spent a lot of time reading and re-reading your books over the years and I have never thrown a single one away. Your work is perhaps the most familiar, most reliable, most engaging and most entertaining I have ever read and I have no doubt that decades from now (assuming I live that long!) I will still be thumbing through my well-read copies of your books and enjoying them just as much as I did the first time around.

I am not going to ask you when the next book in any given series is out, or what your plans are or any other of the myriad questions I am sure you get asked all too often, because for me none of your work has ever disappointed and I am more than happy to absorb whatever well-researched, witty and thrilling work you next produce.

Thank you very much for the time and effort you have invested into all of your work. You are the only author whose books I always make sure to buy first-hand because you deserve every penny, and I can only hope you have found your time writing even half as rewarding as I have found reading you work!

Anyway, I'm sure that's enough for one letter. I shall go back to re-reading Sharpe's Eagle, the foreword of which inspired me to write this in order to assure you that although your ability as an author has most certainly flourished over time, Sharpe's Eagle is proof that you were always rather bloody good at it.

Yours faithfully,
Peter Duke