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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

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)

Dear Bernard: No manuscripts or ideas, here, just a profound thank you for a wonderful book - Agincourt. Truly splendid, and the characters and dialogue were just brilliant (and the fact that a guy from Brooklyn actually used that last word is, quite frankly, praise enough.) On top of that, I have been wonderfully surprised that the Sharpe series from PBS is actually based on your books! Time to get buying because that Long Island Railroad commute is as fun as a death march without a book. Congratulation again on Agincourt. Semper fi, Dan Harnett Blue Point, NY

Hello dear Bernard! I love your books.I have read your books about the lords of the north, and I love this book!! This is the best books that I have read in my life!! You are one of the best writers of the world for me, really! I want more books about the lord of the north! I need tell you this!! Thanks for your art!! Regards from the South Of Spain!!! PS: Sorry for my bad english :(, Sara

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

Uhtred's newest and biggest fan.
Tony Tulloch

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