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Good day Mr. Cornwell. I appreciate your time. Please don't take time to send an answer, I know you'll read this anyways. I just finished the Saxon Novels, and loved them all. Naturally I was disappointed to find that Uhtred hasn't gone home yet, but then, that gives us another book, aye? I would humbly suggest, Uhtred gets shed of King Alfred, gets his oath back, takes Gisella and-------------haahaaaa. No, I am glad I am a reader, not a writer. I have a great deal of respect for writers, well, most of them. Your at the top of my list for sure. You write as well as Patrick O'Brian. Very entertaining. Can't wait for the follow-up to Sword Song. Best Regards, Perley in Maine


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Sir: I wanted to express my inexpressible thanks for the countless hours of learning and enjoyment I have spent consuming your works. I have been on author rushes before, but never one so intense nor prolonged as that engendered by your creations. I was saddened to read in the rules for posting this comment that any hopes I might harbor for suggesting a novel entertaining and educating me about the Battle of Hastings and/or the Magna Carta must remain unexpressed. Thank you again for the joy you have brought me, and say hi to my ex-wife on the cape. Gil Barno


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Dear Mr. Cornwell, I began collecting some of your books based on other reading I was interested and the number of times your name kept appearing on lists of recommendations. I collected your work on Arthur and on the Saxon stories, but hadn't read any of them. I recently purchased your book, Agincourt, and began reading it the other day. I am hooked on "Hook." What a great read. I look forward to following it up with the others I have already purchased, and looking into your Sharpe series. Sincerely, Steven Lloyd


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Mr. Cornwell: you've got me reading books again! And I thought nothing can beat a Playstation 3.

Chris


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Hello Bernard, I just wanted to say how I am thoroughly enjoying your books. I started a few months ago on the Arthur trilogy (fantastic series, although it rendered the recent BBC series, Merlin, totally unwatchable!). I've now gone through the four Saxon books out thus far, and am steadily going through the Sharpe series (which has swiftly become one of my favorite reads). I also wanted you to know that I am passing along all your books I read to my father, who suffers from manic depression and has been on a downer for a long time now. I can honestly say that reading your books has started to perk him up and given us great basis for conversation. For that, I offer you my heartfelt thanks. I wish you all the best health for now, and in the future. And, needless to say, I will continue on my endeavor to read all of your books- after all, I am a student, I have the free time!* *(I think I've taken the phrase 'reading for a degree' a bit out of context here...) Regards, Tom

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Thanks Tom! Please pass along my very best wishes to your father.


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Dear Bernard, Just wanted to thank you for a most enjoyable read (Azincourt). My very best wishes. Tug


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Well done, exciting, a view of life in the middle ages. I look forward to the further adventures of Utred of Bebbenburg! William Kirk


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Dear Mr Cornwell, I have just finished reading Azincourt, and would just like to say thank you for creating (again) an absorbing and interesting storyline. Having been an archer myself for 10 or so years, and shooting the longbow (although I could never draw more than about 80lb) some of the passages in the book captured for me what shooting the longbow was all about, and brought back some very happy memories, i.e. 60 archers in line sending a (little) storm of arrows across an ornamental lake in the grounds of a English Statley Home. Many thanks and keep up the good work. P.S Will we see anything more of Mr Hook?

Peter Clarke

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It's possible!


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I have probably read over 75 books in the last year and a half but I have to say that Agincourt is the best of the bunch. It is absolutely fantastic and I only hope that sometime you may continue the saga of Nick Hook, Sir John and the rest of the very believable characters. You gave me a great view of how it was to fight in those very bloody days. Thank you for reviving the art of believable fiction and frankly for me it did not seem like fiction. Lee McColligan


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Bernard - I listened to you speaking on Radio 4 today, and have read the Saxon books; I was interested to hear that you thought nobody had been in a shield wall these days. In fact being in the police now, in the riot unit, is very close to it! Long (Roman style?) shields have been replaced with circular ones and the training is to interlink, to 'hold the line' and to keep a running line, just as it would have been all those years ago. I myself have been in a unit of 5 men plus me 'steering' (one holds onto the belts of the men in front and acts as their 'eyes' so to speak) rushing into 2,000 Manchester Utd fans to snatch-out a steward who had been pulled into the block and was being beaten up. Please feel free to contact me should you so wish for a beefed-up version of events - particularly how the adrenalin high keeps you able to perform superhuman feats of strength, and how the post action slump sends you into an awful slump of fatigue. I thoroughly recommend that you attend one of the training days the various police forces run in a sort of fake town where petrol bombs etc are thrown at the serials to see for yourself how intense the experience really is. regards, Alan P, Lincolnshire (proud Saxon peasant)

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That's wonderful! Of course you're right, and I never thought of it! Thank you so much. And I hope, next time you're in a shield wall, that you do as well as Uhtred! Thankyou!