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Hi Bernard. Well it is a cold winter's night here in Australia and I have just finished reading Azincourt. A good read once again, well done. Having read your Saxon and Grail Quest series, I fear I am becoming an addict. I just wanted to say thank you and like all the others on the site, pass on my thanks for your efforts in research and writing. In particular I always enjoy reading the Historical Notes, and appreciate your honesty there regarding what you have taken liberties with for the purposes of making a better tale. I have never been a very big reader, but your books have stirred a love for books in me that has only been stirred by Tolkien's work before yours. I haven't ventured into the Sharpe series yet, but the Warlord series is next on my to do list. Again my thanks. Craig

I just finished the Starbuck Chronicles yet again. The only problem is that I now have to find something else to read! I thoroughly enjoy reading your books. As a history teacher and a Civil War re-enactor I appreciate how you have taken the story of historical events and made them human...not just in this series, but in your other books and series that I have enjoyed as well. If you ever find yourself in California, let me be the first to invite you to participate in one of the many Civil War re-enactments that occur here. Perhaps that will inspire you to continue with Starbuck's adventures....

Scott Hill

Mr Cornwell I have just finished reading Azincourt, I have never read a book so fast I was so captivated by your ability to describe everything that Nick Hook saw. I felt as if I was standing there with him all through out his journey. I usually struggle with novels because I'm very dyslexic even at 20 years old, but this is the first book I've read where I just found it so brilliant to read I couldn't put it away. I'm a military enthusiast myself and I thank you for creating such a fantastic book which just filled my imagination. Thanks again Matthew Shipman

Hi, Bernard ! Excuse-me for my bad English! I'm from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Leblon, do you know? Yours books are translate to Portuguese and I read all of them. Well, I have just express my feelings about you. God bless you! Um grande abraço ! Marcus Plaisant.

It goes without saying that I love the books - especially Azincourt, the Grail Quest and Sharpe. I first met historical fiction when I was about 11 (now 77)and read Georgette Heyer's Spanish Bride. The fact that they were real people blew me away and I read everything I could find(not much in boarding school in wartime and when all my parents' books were in storage.)But CS Forester and later Patrick O'Brian are high on my regular reading list. Back to Harry Smith - I can't believe that he and Richard Sharpe didn't meet. Their home lives were very different but their military exploits! Thank you.

Belinda

JELLIED EELS!. Now i`ve caught your attention I`d like to add my support to an earlier question - if you are not yet fed up with the dark age period, I`m sure you could do a fantastic job with the events leading up to The Battle of Hastings either as a short series or one off such as `Azincourt`, if you can find the time check out `TBOH sources and interpretations` by Morillo. Thanks and keep up the good work! Allan Konca

Dear Mr Cornwell, I felt I had to write to commend you on your Warlord trilogy which I have just finished reading a few moments ago. It is difficult to type through the tears ..... I am 42 years old & have been reading since the age of 10 & no other book[s] have affected me in this way before. This trilogy is one of the most beautifully written, emotive & historically challenging that I have ever read - I was in every shield wall alongside Derfel & raged for him at every injustice & broken oath, you sir are a literary genius & I salute you & proud Derfel & wanted to say a heartfelt thank you for bringing those boyhood heroes of mine to life within the pages of your books. Thank you for the tears & for the joy that you have brought into my life - long may these heroes live in our hearts & souls. Thank you Simon Grant

I have just reread "The Bloody Ground" for the fourth time. I know I am not alone, but I really wish you would get back to this series. I am most anxious to read about a fitting end to Billy Blythe. He deserves to end his days appropriately.

Jack Casner

Hi Bernard, Sorry to bother you but I feel I need to pass on my thanks regarding the books I have just read. Azincourt & The Winter King. I've not read 2 books in 3 weeks for over 20 years, I have never really been a big reader. But I just had to say a huge thank you.....Ive been drawn into the two books Ive read and have struggled to put them down. To read a book and learn things about that period in time has given me so much enjoyment. I'm even looking into our Medieval Period and I'm finding it so interesting. The Arthur book left me just wanting more and I'm already on the second. I get lost in the books so easily and have even been moved by the way you have written the very moving love theme that follows some of the characters. A huge thank you and I cant wait to start the Saxon stories. Andrew

Dear Mr. Cornwell, Ive enjoyed nearly all your books. The Winter King chronicles are my favorites. Recently, I had a question about one of your characters, so I looked it up on your website. Thanks to your excellent search engine, I soon found the information I was looking for. Thanks! While I was reading your answers, I saw where you wondered why Ban Tarleton has always been portrayed as a villain in movies like The Patriot. Actually, there IS one positive movie about him, albeit it was a 1986 comedy called Sweet Liberty. An American history professor writes a best selling novel about the battle of Cowpens, so a Hollywood company comes to his home town to make a movie of it. However, the director wants to portray Ban Tarleton as a dashing romantic hero, much to the horror of the professor, who wrote Ban as the usual sadistic tyrant. I thought it was quite funny, but then, Im often the annoying sort of pedant who points out all the historical inaccuracies while the rest of the audience is just trying to enjoy a good story. ;-) Sincerely, Jean E. McIntosh