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I discovered Richard and company at a very rough time in my life. I related to his difficulties in relating to his leadership the fact that he didn't feel comfortable in the world he'd been thrust into. When my mom passed, I had Richard and Patrick. When I got sober, I had Richard and Patrick. During quarantine, I reread Trafalgar (still my favorite and thank you for not killing the midshipman). In the craziness of this current incarnation of reality, I like that I have these friends and their world where I can retreat to the calm and serenity of cannons firing and people slipping on the entrails of their friends as they struggle agonizingly forward towards almost certain death. Thank you for that.

I also read The Fort and enjoyed watching someone finally take Paul Revere down a peg. He was a self-aggrandizing pin-head.

The point of all this is, I wanted to say thank you and especially thank you for not killing my friends in the most recent Sharpe book. Hopefully, it will not be the last, but I understand that if it is, you left them in a comfortable place where I can think of them finally safe and happy. After the loss of Hagman and Harper's insistence of following Sharpe into danger even though he was under no moral obligation to do so, I was worried you were going to kill Pat. It would have been a sadistic thing to do, but occasionally it feels you lean that way.

I am genuinely grateful for the worlds you create and the people I get to spend time with in those worlds. They let me examine the hard places in my own life and put some perspective on them. Thank you for that.

Well, I have to go get started on Redcoat now. I'm hoping one day, you'll write something where the Americans get to be the good guys. Thank you again.

Keith Troop

Hello Bernard

I am an English, History teacher from Tasmania, Australia. I have read your Sharpe and Uhtred books multiple times and when browsing my local bookshop three days ago, I stared with disbelief when I saw a new Sharpe book on the shelves. It was a wonderful surprise to think I had a new adventure with Mr Sharpe and Harper to enjoy!! I had always felt that the Waterloo book was an engrossing story but the series had ended abruptly without a sense of closure. I was so happy to see Dan buried at the beginning of Assassin, so he no longer was just a discarded casualty. The strength of your writing is the way you create characters that the reader cares about and willingly follows through all the books in a series - even to the extent that they want to see them appropriately buried and put to rest. Thank you Mr Cornwell!!

Stacy Riley

I swore I wouldn't contact you. I'm sure you're overwhelmed with messages about your books. But I am writing to thank you for your work, especially The Last Kingdom. I ran across it at the beginning of the pandemic, on Netflix of course. I watched the Netflix series not once, or twice, but three times. I found it mesmerizing (how can you keep your eyes off of Uhtred of Bebbanburg). While I awaited the fifth and final season, I turned to your 13-book series. I have been reading the series in order for the last couple of months (I just finished the tenth book). I am dazzled by your writing. Reviewers often mention your ability to take us to 10th-century England, especially to its battlefields, but that is not what interests me. What I admire is your use of language: the rich vocabulary you employ (I've never looked up so many words in my life), the ingenious turns of phrases on every page, your ability to handle dialogue, etc. But, more than that, your understated humor. In the tenth book I laughed aloud when Uhtred adopted "Mus" as his battle cry (after finding out the town whore was the mysterious wife of the newly-appointed bishop). In my mind, you deserve all of the accolades you've received, and then some. For me, your writing has been an unexpected delight and has helped me through these strange pandemic days. For that, I am ever grateful (and I'm not through: three more books to go). Yours—

William Nikola

Completed War Lord a minute ago. I will miss Lord Uhtred, Finan, and the others. Thank you for sharing their story!

Fred Kovach

I have enjoyed every book of years and especially the Sharpe series. I just finished "Sharpe"s Assassin and enjoyed it thoroughly. I hope you don't " keep him down on the farm."

Best Regards,

Gary

 

Mr. Cornwell -

Just finished "Sharp's Assassin'. It prompted me to send you a heartfelt 'THANK YOU!' for all of your books. It is a true pleasure to have known your characters over the years, and an acknowledgement is long overdue.

Jonathan Houck

Retired Marine , 83 , have purchased and read nearly every book you have written and am a big fan . Reading the newest Sharpe book was like curling up in front of a fire and visiting with an old and dear friend . Thanks for writing it .

Born in Worcester but escaped into the Marines as quickly as able . Enjoy the Cape and stay healthy and carry me out please with several more stories . They go well with a little Jameson to set me in the correct mental framework and location .

All the best!

Leonard Ingram

Please, please write another Starbuck book! My husband and I have read everyone of your books and absolutely love the humour, history and characters in the Starbuck Chronicles!

Maggie

 

Dear Bernard Cornwell,

Here in Brazil, the books referring to the Starbuck Chronicles were only recently released, with the last book having been released in 2021.

As a curiosity, only the first book, “Rebel” kept the original name translated into Portuguese “Rebelde”. The names of the following, in Portuguese, were: “Traitor”, “Enemy” and “Heroe”.

I'm sure the arrival in Brazil increased the fans of Nathaniel Starbuck. A character so complex and whose ending is not predictable so far.

So although you have said several times that you do not intend to return to the Starbuck series, I urge you to carefully consider the possibility of writing just one more book to put an end, whatever it may be, to the hero who knew how to captivate thousands of fans around the world. I believe several other of your readers will agree with this humble request.

Greetings and thank you so much for your brilliant mind to entertain and captivate us with superb stories.

Marcelo Mendonça

Thank you for not killing Richard.

David Kaufhardt

Sir,

Thank you for your freely given writing advice and for all of your wonderful novels.  From Derfel Cadarn, to Thomas of Hookton, and Sharpe following their steps, I have been taken to wonderful places, amazingly detailed battles and met your vivid cast of characters.

Your work has inspired my own style (in mainly speculative fiction), to the point one of my readers described me as the Bernard Cornwell of Power Armour.  It gave me a boost and chuckle both - I hope it proves the same for you.

One day, perhaps I will be good and successful enough to be worthy of such a compliment.

Thank you, for all of your hard work, generosity, and many hours of enjoyment - please keep writing!

David Marshall.