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I just want to say thank you for the hours of storytelling you have provided me with. James E. Wickizer

Just finished reading Azincourt, I didn't want to put it down. Peter Elmy

The Warlord Chronicles is one of the best series I have ever read. I have read it over ten times and each time is like the first. My favorite books ever. Thank you Sir. Erica Charlotte Gaul

Dear Mr Cornwell, My mother-in-law bought me what has proven to be the best Christmas present I've ever received this year, that being the four books of your 'Saxon Stories'series. Well, it's now the second of February and having finished the last of the four books last night, it's now unfortunately looking like I'm finally going to have to get back to concentrating on my own work again! I am an airbrush artist and have long had a fascination with the Danes and particularly the Viking Danes. Having spent four years of my youth in York and now living in Orkney, both heavily steeped with Viking history I found your books particularly enthralling. I have been planning for some time to start work on a project based on the Vikings, but now having read and seemingly lived so many of the scenes so excellently described in your books, I now feel ready to start putting some of those images into some artwork. To say that I thoroughly enjoyed your books is an understatement on a massive scale. Though I suspect that my wife will be highly delighted I've finished them, as now the reading lamp won't be on until the early hours every morning as it has been for most of the nights since Christmas. Thank you for your wonderfully descriptive writing and for the huge amount of information imparted in your writing. It seems I'm just going to have to read some of your other books until the next stage of Uhtreds saga is completed. So, much to my long suffering wifes frustration, I strongly suspect that the reading lamp will likely be burning the midnight oil again very soon! Best Regards Jim

Dear Mr Cornwell I thoroughly enjoy reading all of your books and I think that they should be part of the school literature syllabus in every senior school. Although many of your novels are fiction, they also include carefully researched facts and I think that reading them in school might stimulate students to study actual historical facts. Let's face it, it might just help them to develop an enjoyment of reading and therefore improve the literacy of the younger generation. Best wishes and looking forward to your next books. Peter Elms

Hi Bernard, Had to laugh at myself when I heard you speak on Radio 4 Bookclub. Despite listening to your books for over 10 years, I had never actually heard you speak in person, in your Essex accent. Somehow I'd convinced myself that you'd sound just like William Gaminara. LOL as they say, Neil in Texas

Sir, I just finished reading, for the second time, your superb "Azincourt", wonderful. I did get a slight sense of deja-vu, (or maybe that should be avant-vu), at the character of Sir Martin who seemed to have stepped straight out of the Sharpe series when he was then called Obadiah Hakeswill! Still, I suppose you can't keep a good villain tucked away! Best regards and many thanks for such great writing, Graham Bradbury

Mr. Cornwell, Many thanks for the calling out a few books on the lives of the Anglo Saxons and Weaponry. You noted: 'The Anglo-Saxons' edited by James Campbell, adding that the bibliography may lead to other books. You also noted: 'Viking Weapons and Warfare' by J Kim Siddorn. I have these and have read them (well, much of them) and am using them to learn more about the people and the times. They have been GREAT and continue to help satisfy my curiosity of the period. I also picked up Alfred the Great by Alfred P. Smythe and also Asser's original version. I am knee-deep in those. If I may, I would like to point out a text covering the span of the Dark/Middle Ages. The text is 'The Dictionary of Medieval Civilization' by Joeseph Dahmus. The book is an alphabetized listing of people, places, events, wars, conflicts, common names, noble names, etc. followed by concise explanations of origin, definition, and connections with others. I found one of the 'Eberhard(t)s', (one of my Paternal Ancestors), as well as some of my Danish and Scottish Ancestors...not to mention tons of other fantastic and interesting information... I am actually reading it as if it were a novel, and find that I have a difficult time putting it away. Yes, I am a geek. Thanks again and best wishes, Shawson Hebert

Dear Sir, I really like to read your books. It enjoys me a lot. Unfortunately I'd like better reading in Portuguese. Here in Brazil we don't have all your books published. And that's a problem. Would you mind telling your publisher to do something about that? I'll really appreciate. Thanks, Christian de Freitas

Dear Mr Cornwell I would just like to thank you for the pleasure your books have given me. Over the past six months I have read the Saxon Stories and also the Grail Quest series. If only your books had been around when I was at school I would have done a lot better at history. Your books truly fire up the imagination which is I think an essential part of education. I was a bit reluctant to embark on the Sharpe stories mainly because of the high quality of the television series, I need not have worried although I still have the picture of Sean Bean in my mind whenever I'm reading. I have spent the last week in bed with a bad cold and did Trafalgar in two days. As a one time illustrator, the picture you painted in words would be hard to beat! Thanks again for bringing so much enjoyment Bernard, more power to your elbow. Regards Terry Hadler East Hendred Oxfordshire.