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Dear Mr. Cornwell: I began delving into yours books a couple years ago, having read all or most of Warlord, Saxon, Grail series, and more recently getting hooked on Sharpie! Here is a simple request...Your website's "Reading Club" is badly in need of a "SEARCH" button, so we can search by author or title, or perhaps year of publication. Thanks!

Douglas Boldt

re Jim Parsons' comments on the English war bow. I have seen various slo-mo on war arrow strikes and seen the mixed results. However, at the Taupo Joust (I am a re-eactor, bowman, 100 Years War) English War Bow were using 120lb war bows to put short bodkin head war arrows into mild steel breast plates at 50 yards with few 'bounces'. My observation of slo-mo with arrow heads crumpling was due to them using long bodkin heads, which are better used against mail. I suspect the 14th C complaints was caused by the up grading of armour used by the nobility from iron to steel.

Geoff Boxell

I just wanted to tell that I very much like The Starbuck Chronicles . I love to read about the Civil War . I am now reading the 3rd book of the series. Thank you so much . Gary E Flores

Dear Mr Cornwell I am addicted to your books and find Uhtred and the ideas he has in his heart close to mine..Thank you for writing such fantastic literature. I am totally into your books and when I read spiritually I'm in the times of the Viking invasions as if I was truly there.. Best regards, Patrycja

Dear Bernard I have just finished reading your book 'The Fort' and found it a great read. As a former British army Paymaster I found it quite interesting to learn that Lt Moore was the Paymaster of the 82nd! I read your book 'Agincourt' which was also a terrific read. Someone has given me The Saxon Stories which I look forward to reading too. Keep writing!! Yours sincerely Ron Morgan P.S. - Just been reading further material on the Penobscot Expedition, but then came across the Battle of Bushy Run from around the same time. Got the makings of a good book methinks!

Ron Morgan

Hello, Have just started reading the first three 'Sharpe' books-on holiday-Love them, but have already run out! Might have to invest in a kindle locally! Many thanks, Polly

Dear Bernard: I have been a big fan of yours for years. Recently I read, "The Fort". Your best yet. Of course I am swayed being from Maine and having read a lot about Penobscot. In fact I was just there last year. I am hoping you plan to write more about the American Revolution. Don In Arizona.

Despite just receiving my initial social security pension payments, and having a lifelong interest in history, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in History from Georgetown University, and living in Spain, where so many of the Sharpe books are placed, I am embarrassed to admit that I have just, within the last several weeks, discovered you. I read Sharpe's Trafalgar in April, have a thing about doing my historical reading chronologically, and found what I hope is the first book, Sharpe's Tiger, and just finished that. Since I spent time in the Peace Corps in India ( I am originally from right down the road from Cape Cod, in southern New England, but have lived in Ireland and Spain since 1995) and knew a little about the Tippoo Sultan and that great Irishman Arthur Wellesley's role in the fourth Mysore War, I found it remarkable. The research, fortified by the Historical Note at the end, convinced me that I am going to read all of your Sharpe books, starting now. The two that I have read have brought me great pleasure, not to mention greater knowledge. I only hope that I have the right chronological order; my next is Sharpe's Triumph.(?) I saw one of the books in a television series when living in Ireland [1995-2007] and remember it pretty well, mostly because of the memorable performance of Pete Postelwhaite, RIP. It is an honor and a pleasure to have finally discovered you. Thank you and God Bless You.

Joseph Nugent

Mr. Cornwell -- Congratulations on "The Fort," an excellent and entertaining historical novel! I have never felt compelled to do something like this email until now. Many years ago, as a lad of 11 or 12 (I am 59 now) I spent a boring day at grandma's haus while the adults talked for hours. But I found on grandma's bookshelf a 1950s Reader's Digest book of condensed novels that included "Northwest Passage," by Kenneth Roberts, the first part about Robert Rogers' raid on St. Francis. I was hooked on Kenneth Roberts and his novels, especially those set during the American Revolution and, until now, I have not found anything that compares. Bravo! Thank you for "The Fort." I should check out a Sharpe book or two, I think. Jeffrey Thomas Waalkes Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

Starbuck is fed up with being on holiday, can he come back to battle please? Fantastic series to date, and would also make good TV even tough John Jakes got in first, a new slant that would obviously appeal to an American audience first no doubt, especially after the blinding success of Sharpe. Kind regards

Patrick Kirby