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I have loved all your series and my brother in law and I are anxiously awaiting a new book.  Thank you for writing such great series.  After reading your books, I start researching issues that are in them.  You make the time periods you write about come alive.  Again, thank you

Nancy DeLong

I have read your Warlord trilogy what must be two dozen times over. Every time I find them to be just as supremely engrossing as the last. I still cannot evade that lump in my throat that always makes it's appearance as I read the last page of Excalibur. Thank you for sharing these works, and many others, with me and the world.

Jared

Nothing profound to say: just that I love your books and have read almost all of them. I'll get to those two as soon as I finish Sharpe's Devil. My husband wonders what I will do once I finish that last story. Will I go into withdrawals?  I laugh that off, but am a little concerned, myself!  It will seem a long wait until the next Saxon story comes out and, at the present time, I can't imagine reading anything as enjoyable as a Bernard Cornwell book.  Thank you for spoiling me shamelessly!

 

Christine Seijas

Hi Bernard,

just a thank you for your insightful interview in Writing Magazine. Your words have rekindled my writing fire.

All the best.

Tim Willmore.

I just ordered 1356 from Amazon and now it looks like I will have to get The Fort.  I did not start reading your books until 2005 while on deployment in Iraq. I ended up owning the whole Sharpe series.  Amazon and the series got me through a rather busy deployment.
Garth Flint

Good morning!
I am so glad that I found this way to send you a message!
I am visually impaired, so I do not READ books in the NORMAL way, but I am blessed with audio books!
I use to be able to read when I was much younger, though.  I enjoyed your books sooo much.  Old history, men on horseback, forests and all that, are what dreams are made off.
Thank you, thank you, and again, thank you for giving me so many hours of good reading, a door into my own imagination!
All the best for the new year, God bless.
Isabella Smal.
>From Johannesburg in South Africa.

Dear Mr.Cornwell,

my name is Stefan Klett I,m from Saxony in Germany. I hope you can read this letter, because my english grammer is not so well. I,m a Paratrooper in the German Army. In the last 5 years,when i was in training camps or on missions in Afghanistan, I have ever read a book of your,s. At first I have read the Saxon Stories after this the Sharpes Series and the Arthur Chronicles. And I have buy the 23 years old books of the Sharpes Series too. Thank you so much for the good time which I had with your books the last years. I hope in the future,I can more read of the adventures from Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg and Maj. Richard Sharpe and all the other heroes.
Yours faithfully, Stefan Klett

Hi Bernard -

have read many of your books and very much enjoyed them. Just re-read the Uhtred warrior chronicles - the last three back to back whilst on a week's holiday in Mexico. As a resident of Filkins (nr Lechlade) I picked up on a continuity error clearly not spotted by the editor. In The Burning Land Uhtred rescues Aethelflaed from and kills Aldhelm at the convent in Lechlade but later, in Death of Kings page 302, this is referred back to as having happened in Cricklade. Also, in Death of Kings, you refer to Aethelflaed's new convent, St Werburgh's, as being in Cricklade whereas earlier she is said to have built it in Cirencester.

Very much looking forward to the next book in this series.

Kind regards

David Heslam

I am glad to hear that the Uhtred saga will continue - I was getting a bit twitchy about this.  Roll on the end of the year.

On the subject of composite bows I remember reading in a book on archery I bought about 55 years ago, that composite bows as used by the Mongols, failed in a maritime climate.  The glue used to bind the laminates was made from hide and was water based. The climate in the UK was so damp that the glue would soften and the bow would fail.  It was one of the reasons given why the Mongols never reached the west coast of Europe.

I was fascinated by "the Fort".  This part of history seems to be unknown and got me involved in reading more about this period in UK/US history.
It is rather satisfying to quote this episode to our American cousins who are forever boasting about defeating the Redcoats.. At least, it keeps them quiet for a while !

Tom Cameron

Hello,

I grew up on the South coast of England and left for Australia in the 1970`s where i still live.My mother is still in Wimborne,Dorset and I visit as often as I can.
This is just a huge thank you for the way you bring to life my childhood passion for Saxon history.  I will walk over Badbury rings again this coming June,and as I went to Hastings in 2006 to re-enact the 1066 battle,in full mail,sword and shield on Senlac hill we few Australian saxon huscarls,re-lived a moment in time.The only thing to come close to that is reading Uhtred`s adventures so masterfully put to paper.Thank you, and I wait eagerly for September and the next book.

Wassail,

Simon.