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Dear Bernard,
Just finished Death of Kings, another great read. Such a fascinating era of our history.
Thanks for the interesting historical note, what has happened to Alfred's tomb is a travesty. I too think schools need to focus 'our' history a little earlier than the Norman invasion, I suspect it's a Victorian legacy thing; Britain never defeated by foreigners etc.
Looking forward to the next instalment... get to it!!

Chris.

Hi Bernard,

I have read many of your books, all the Sharp series, Warrior series and Thomas of Hookton's tales, they are all spell binding.  I feel as though I am with the heroes watching their every move. Keep up this amazing work please, it just sets our imagination alight from page one! Good health,

Pete.

Hello Mr. Cornwell
I am sending this message from Brazil.
I read a lot of your books and must say that your work is amazing.
Keep doing this fantastic job and I wish you all the best.
Cordially
Fábio

Dear Bernard
I know you do not do requests about books for legal reason's but this request is about finishing a series.
For the next book after Uthred please please consider Starbuck. The last Starbuck novel was in 1996, and we are now in 2013. That's a long time!
Even if you just skipped to the final book in the series (Appomattox ?), and never did another Starbuck novel again, just simply to tie up all the loose threads that were left open from the Bloody Ground, that deserves to be done if nothing else.
So please please consider Starbuck
Yours sincerely
Geraint

Mr. Cornwell:
Spent the last week and nights neglecting my household duties to read the saga of Nate Starbuck.  Please assure me that Starbuck will march again. Soon!
I've read the entire Sharpe series and the Grail Quest books.  Thank you for providing me with such terrific entertainment.
Sincerely,
Paul R. Ramirez
Rockwall, TX

Hi Bernard,

I've just finished another Sharpe book, " Sharpe's Triumph ", it was brilliant especially toward the end where Sharpe saved  Wellesley's life, I couldn't put it down!
Thank you for your writing, I want you to know how very much I appreciate it.

thanks again,

Allen Vowles, Rugby, Warwickshire

Hi Bernard,
Just a quick note. I came across this site via the now defunct SAS (Sharpe Appreciation Society). Needless to say I am a huge fan and have been for many years. However I need to read more than 1 new Cornwell a year! We are all getting older and although you are not a factory you are producing books too slowly for my liking :) One way to quicken you up may be to limit your replies to your adoring public. Just have a FAQ button on your website and you will not have to endlessly reply to when is the next Sharpe/Warlord/Starbuck etc.
The bottom line is you are too accessible and need to limit this so you can write the 'good stuff!' (And make some more money!)

Personally I don't think the Sharpe TV series was anywhere near as good as your early novels. Just like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, Sean Bean was nothing like Richard Sharpe (but we grew to love him anyway.) I would worry about what film makers would do with your other novels, but I would still pay to see them.

I hope this is the last time you waste your time reading/replying to one of your fans. Get writing!
Cheers,
Mark

Mr Cornwell,

Having acquired a strain of viral meningitis last summer, I received a copy of Death of Kings from a friend to while away the recovery time. Having not read anything by you previously (or much of anything by anybody else, for that matter) I mentioned the book to my dad, himself also a published author, prior to embarking upon it. He promptly sent me The Last Kingdom, chiefly (I suspect) for two reasons: one, to start the series from the beginning and two, because my family spent a week in Northumberland - the first time we had visited - as I was recovering. I had waxed lyrical to him about our trip to Bamburgh Castle and so he thought it entirely appropriate that I should read The Last Kingdom, er, first. I suspect a further reason he purchased it for me is because he lives but a stone's throw from the site of the book's dénouement. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for a terrific and deeply absorbing read. I have The Pale Horseman - a Christmas gift from my wife - primed and readied upon my bedside table, from where I will launch into it bodily from my place in the shield wall and hack its ankles away with my short sword before splitting it asunder with Carnage Wreaker, my blade. Figuratively speaking, of course. Ahem. Cheers!

Max Gee.

Dear Bernard,

All I can say is thankyou so much for the marvellous books you have written. I think I have just about read them all.
The Bizarre thing about it, is that I have taken to reading most of them with Wikipedia and Google Maps open to get an idea of the locations and events you describe so well. This, along with Tony Robinson (Time Team) has given me an unhealthy appreciation of damned English history.

All the best for the future and look forward to more of your 'Ripping Yarns".

cheers

Scott

Hi Mr. Cornwell.

Concerning your contemplation of writing another novel about Waterloo in 2015, please don't do it.  I really don't think you could improve on Sharpe's adventure there, and life is too short to visit any battle twice.  However, I do miss Sharpe.  If you haven't cemented your decision for what to write in 2014, I cast my vote for Sharpe at Albuera.

Alan Kempner

Mr. Cornwell:

I'm 34 years old and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages, the Medieval Age, and early British History (especially when we handed it to the French).  I hadn't ever read any fiction on the subject due to fears that it wouldn't quite describe what I'd studied.  Well to cut a long story a little less long, I'd grown up watching the televised Sharpe Series and heard your name but never read the books (my apologies); so when a friend gave me The Last Kingdom over a year ago, I couldn't quite believe how great what I was reading truly was.  I actually pictured myself in the shield wall with Uhtred, blood, savagery, metal on wood, the screams and smells; you have an amazing talent and I tell all my like-minded friends to read the series (and they do).  I read Agincourt on vacation in Mexico and again, I was astounded.  I am about to start Death of Kings and I feel a little sadness that I am coming to the end of Uhtred's adventure, but it has been a great adventure, and I  think I
will be starting the series again in a few months.

The reason I am writing this now long-winded email is to thank you for writing and putting me there in the past with the very relatable characters you created, I love your take on Alfred and his piety and the reasons behind it.  I also want to name my first son "Uhtred," although my fiance is not to keen on that one.  Most of all I love the battle scenes, please keep them coming.  As a final comment I will say what you've doubtless heard in every email; PLEASE KEEP WRITING!!!

Sincerely and in great appreciation,

Adam Stanton