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Mr. Cornwell, My introduction to your work was with reading Agincourt. I enjoyed it so much, that I just completed your Arthur Trilogy. WHAT A GREAT READ! Thanks for the "ride." I am going to begin the Saxon Stories next. My enjoyment of your work would not allow me to just finish reading the book and enjoy the read without somehow telling you what great enjoyment I derived from the read. I am a minister and was even able to draw a bit here and there for illustrations. In fact, I make reference to your series in a manuscript I completed for a lecture I am delivering in Lubbock, TX in October of this year. I look forward to reading more of your work.

Steven Lloyd

I just want to say that I love your books - the historical stories really bring history to life and hopefully inspire those who don't already have an interest in history. I have just finished "Azincourt" - it was excellent! I like the way you have shown both sides of the battle so well, and also appreciate the French version of the name which is very fitting for this story. I am going to have to read the books you have given as references now... I may be a Scot by birth but I can still cry "God for Harry! England and St George!"

Tatyana

Dear Sir, Now that Sharpe just has his daughter to meet, presumably in South America, it would be good to see how Nate Starbuck ended the Civil War - perhaps becoming the clergyman he was once intended to be ! Although as fighting men the two characters are similar, I have always felt you maintained the integrity Of Starbuck and as an introduction to the American Civil War which we in the UK don't know enough about, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the four novels. When staying in Shippensburg, Pa. in 2003, I then knew what to visit and what to look for. Hoping very much as a retired Andrew, that you will complete the Chronicles. Yours faithfully Steve Goodall, RN retired.

Thank you for interweaving my two favorite subjects into one writing style. I would love to write the way you do. You are a true writer in a society built on television and video games. I will continue to read every book you write (not too quickly so I run out of material!) and will patiently await your new releases. You're the reason I am still reading, thank you.

Arthur Marquis

I just wanted to drop you a note of thanks. Around the beginning of the year I wrote, ordering copies of Sharpe's Christmas, Sharpe's Ransom and Sharpe's story, having located them on the Sharpe's Appreciation Society webpage. You might guess at my surprise and delight in not only getting these books, but with your autograph on them. (You might also guess at the unbridled envy of my office colleagues when I showed them this boon.) Thank you very much! Besides being a huge fan of Richard Sharpe, I am, and all of us at the office are, huge fans of your work period. We all appreciate your solid story lines, fun and complex characters, and fast-moving action, but how you weave these into actual events of history (with appropriate license) adds an additional element to your works. We often try to scoop one another in being the first to get a copy of your latest offering. (I usually win.) Obviously then, I am very excited to have learned that the next installment of the Saxon Series will be available in the coming months. I immediately shared this with my friends at the office. We will see who is first to get The Burning Land. Once more, thank you very much. Regards Russell Craig P.S. If it means anything, we'd all like to Mr. Richard Sharpe and Patrick Harper on more adventures. There's always the July Revolution or the Crimean War (good for father-son outings with Patrick-Henri).

I have just finished the book "Lords of the North" I must say I was very pleased, I picked it up on passing in the library simply because I was fascinated by the fact that you wrote a novel about Agincourt(though I have not read it.) I am about to leave to pick it up from Barnes in Noble to buy. I am going to pick up your Saxon series now as well. If you could offer any other such readings that you know it'd be greatly appreciated. I do so love this period in time and do have small ideas for a series a little later(I read your message and will say no more) just wanted you to know you rekindled a part of me that has been dormant for almost a decade. Ryan

Greetings and good afternoon from Washington, DC. It's been a long time since a particular author has so thoroughly grabbed my fancy and I believe I owe you a heartfelt thank you. So thank you! I started reading The Grail Quest this winter and it looks like I'll make it through everything you've written within a calendar year. And I do mean everything. I've read most of the other series and have read the first 13 books of the Sharpe series in less than a month. How I wish I had this enthusiasm in school! Keep up the great work. You're magnificent! Warmest regards, Kevin

Thank you. You've given me a passion for reading and it has changed my life. I always buy your books, I never get them from a library. I greatly appreciate you as an author. You've gotten many marines through long depressing deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and I thank you for helping us maintain our sanity (to some degree). Thank you again sir, and I wish you a long and happy life.
Jesse Alexander Lauch

Thank you very much for your great books. I have especially revelled in Azincourt and all of the Saxon stories so far and I look forward to "The Burning Land". I do sincerely hope "Azincourt" makes it to the cinema, if it did I would drag my family to the cinema and get it on dvd. Funnily though after reading your books I have only just found out how mucky Tanners were, with their stinking pits, never mind I would like to think my ancestor was an archer like Nick Hook. I also thank you for your portrayal of the common man, in the archer. Reading your books gives me a great sense in English pride, patriotism and proudness. Thank you and keep up the good work.

Richard Tanner

Dear Mr. Cornwell, I hope my message finds you healthy, wealthy, and wise. I am an young American man who has discovered your writings by sheer luck. We 'Yanks', in general don't appreciate you the way we should. You may be 'Britain's Storyteller' but you may very well be ours as well. I have always loved Arthur since I was a boy, and when I read 'The Winter King' as a grown man I became truly fulfilled. My explorations of your work have since made me a Briton, a Saxon, a Dane, a Copperhead and Scallywag. I am witness to the making of Stonehenge and an archer at the battle at Agincourt. I am about to begin the canon of Sharpe novels you have crafted. My only wish is to one day read a final book of Starbuck. I would love to hear your take on Gettysburg. Perhaps an appearance of one of my favorite characters, Thaddeus Bird. An overdue end to Billy Blythe. I know you as a fan of Forester as I am also. Please give Starbuck a final story in the vein of Hornblower, even if only a short story. Your most humble servant, Christopher Lynch.