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Dear Mr Cornwell.,
I would just like to both complement and thank you for writing the Saxon series with Uhtred.
I have read all of them excluding the very last one. One out of sequence therefore requiring re-reading. The history of this sceptred isle becomes so alive in your creation for me. I have really enjoyed the series and I have the last one published sitting there ready to start.
I live in the New Forest so it all so local.
You are a natural story teller and the enjoyment you have given me is up there with the 'Master and Commander series. Really excellent.
I suppose I am now going to have to move on to your other character creations of yours. I perceive no hardship in that.
I will miss Uhtred when the last page is read. It will be like losing a very boisterous friend with many aspects to their charactor. I do like him and the moral but all too human problems he has to resolve.
It is very easy to identify with the difficulty of some of his choices and what the fates have in store for him. Just when we have it all sorted the 'spinners' work in an unexpected new thread.
As a JP I sometime wish that the enemies of our society could be so swiftly and decidedly dealt with. However we live in a civilised and in a liberal age..................don't we? I do believe in law, order and a respect for our justice. Just sometimes..........well. I do wonder if the barbarians have not only attacked the city but have totally overun it.

Keep writing and giving me great enjoyment.

Uhtred for a movie or TV series.............I wish. But insist on the right lead if you do get such an offer. I can think of a few that qualify. However Uhtred wears very big boots.

Thank you,
best wishes,
Kenneth Calam-Hale.

Hello Mr. Cornwell,
I'm a stage actor by trade, though since the birth of my son Charlie (now 3 and a half) I've been spending more time as a Theatre Professor at various Colleges/Universities than treading the boards.  I had the opportunity of playing Hotspur in 1 Henry IV and then Hal in 2 Henry IV for Milwaukee Shakespeare a few years ago and just wanted to say break a leg.  They are wonderful plays (as if Shakespeare ever wrote a play that wasn't) and rarely does one have the opportunity to speak eloquently and throw a broad sword around in the same show.  Have a great opening/run and maybe one day we'll have the opportunity to talk Shakespeare.
Brian.

Just a couple items to mention.  First, I'd like to thank you for the pleasure of reading Redcoat.  I did finish it before the 4th of July and loved every page.  For me, Sam Gilpin is one of the most endearing fictional characters I've ever encountered.  I found myself rooting for him and hanging on every chapter to see what happened.  No spoilers from me but all my appreciation.  Thank you,

Secondly, I'd like to also thank Emily Fenwick for her review of Augustus Son of Rome.  This sounds like a book I'd like to read.  I enjoyed reading about Augustus as emperor and all the intrigues and machinations of the Claudian family in Robert Graves, I Claudius.  A serious look at Augustus as young Octavian would be welcome.  It's probably redundant of me to say this for Emily but I recommend Robert Harris' other novels, Pompeii and The Ghost were books I couldn't put down.

David M. Dunaj

Firstly let me say how much I have enjoyed your books over the years. I have finally finished reading the Grail Quest series and can now proudly say I have read everything you have yet published.
Whilst I enjoyed Death of Kings it didn't seem to move the story along as much as I would have liked, although on the plus side this hopefully means more books in total. If you would take some advice from a fan then please never forget that these books are Uhtred telling his legend, a legend that lesser men tried to wipe away and claimed the credit for themself.
I look forward to the next Uhtred book which I hope you have started? I still think Uhtred is perfect for a U.S television series especially with the recent success of Game of Thrones & Pillars of the Earth. Please please ask the publishers to try and do a deal with HBO.
Or if not then a Role Play Game (RPG) in the Saxon Stories world where you play as a sword for higher with Uhtred's story providing the back drop for the game. Lots of massive battles, morality choices and a little bit of Englands early history make for epic gaming in my humble opinion. Bioware make epic games. (I renounce all rights to these ideas.) I hope the Norns make it so.
Matthew Watson

Dear Sir,

I am just about the end of the Sharpe series and want to take this opportunity to thank you for writing such a wonderful sequence of stories. Not only have I enjoyed the adventure, I feel that I learned something about history that I would otherwise never have.   Richard Sharpe is a terrific character as is Sargent Harper.  I have recommended these books to most everyone that I meet and do so now to whoever reads this note.  I do recommend that they be read in sequence.

Thank you once more,

Yours truly,

Harry Haynes

Due to a chronic illness I have been reading your books through audiobooks. I just read  a message that Jamie Glover was the voice of Uhtred. I want to sound out Tom Selwood's reading of Uhtred. He pitched it perfect and I was disappointed when he was changed on the third book. Richard Armytage was good. Stephen Perring was OK. Paul Blake did a terrible reading. He made Uhtred sound like a petulant brat ! Tim Piggot-Smith is an impressive reader (reading Arthur stories).

We know thus far that Uhtred is going to live into his 80's. My impression is that this is your way of arcing the story so we can get into the great battle of Brunanburgh which Michael Wood (in Search of the Dark Ages) reckons was fought in South Yorkshire which is where I'm from.So if you are going to write about this please place the battle there !

Keep up the good work and I look forward to Uhtred showing all those southerners how to fight !

Darryl

Dear Bernard,

I can finally get some work done as I have just finished Excalibur; but how I wish I hadn't.
Thank you for the most enjoyable trilogy I have ever read, Excalibur is simply sensational, I was there in every page and I loved and loathed your characters and am both shocked and moved...Wow!

I was first introduced to your novels when I met my partner, (he is a Sharpe fan). First I was mesmorized by Thomas of Hookton and then the fabulous Uhtred, (we are both keenly awaiting Uhtreds next adventure). I have read the Starbuck Chronicles and many of your 'one off'' books but, as yet, have still to embrace Sharpe.
Seeking news on the next Uhtred story led me to your website and I felt I had to thank you for so many hours of pure enjoyment.
I have always been an avid reader but since discovering your books I find it hard to read anything else, I have tried but find myself wondering what your characters are up to.
I will have to try Sharpe again as I am running out your books to read.

Long may you write!
Kind regards
Lynn

Mr. Cornwell,

Six years ago, while wandering the aisles of a local Barnes & Noble and waiting on a friend, I picked up The Archer's Tale at random. Having never heard of historical fiction, I read the first five pages and made an impulse buy. I'd like to tell you I've never made a better choice of literature (or better impulse buy!) than purchasing your book. I've read most all of your work now, as well as a few other historical novelists. However, your style, attention to detail, and brilliant character development keep you at the very top of my list.

I give you my sincerest thanks for the years of enjoyment you've provided not only me but also a few friends to whom I've suggested your work.

I hope to meet you at some point, and I look forward to seeing the world through the eyes of the character you create next!

-Taylor Doiron

I enjoy greatly your ability to interweave history with fiction. I am sure if more youngsters were to read your work then History would be raised from a dull to an exciting subject, I always recommend your books to youngsters for this reason. Keep up the good work.

Best Regards

Bob Conn

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

My name is Jaques Artuso Grisang, I am a brazillian lawyer, I'm 24 years old and I first read The Winter King about a year ago. From then on I've already purchased The Warlord Chronicles, The Grail Quest, Stonehenge, Azincourt, The Fort and about 6 minutes ago I finished Death of Kings.

I've come here to say that your work is incredible, I love history and I am fascinated by it. So, I find your writings very enjoyable, even the ones that are fairly fictional (like Stonehenge). I am very curious about your early works, like Redcoat, but they are very difficult to come by in Brazil, and only those books I mentioned to have purchased are available in Portuguese (as well as Sharpe's, but I need some more cash to buy those).

Well, what I came here to say, "fandom" aside, is that I wish you many more years to come, that I wish you health and fortune for the rest of your days, and that I pray that you live enough to finish the Saxon Stories, I must see Uthred regain Bebbanburg, and he is my favorite character so far, flawed and full of rage as he is.

Thank you for the many hours of entertainment!

Live long.

Jaques Artuso Grisang