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Mr Cornwell Just a very very quick one. I just like to say thank you for writing such splendid books. When i was growing up i was never a big reader and watching the Sharpe series was one of the main reasons that got me into history; that and Terry Jones' crusader programmes. Since i went to uni, to read history, i really got into your books and am currently re-reading your Thomas of Hookton books again, which at the time was a suggested read when i was studying the period by Anne Curry at Reading (unofficially of course). Anyway i'm glad to hear that you are working on a new book and look forward to reading it. Keep up the good work. yours Nick Balfour, 25, Muswell Hill, London p.s. i don't know if anyone else shares this view as it might come across a bit weird from a Sharpe fan, but you have yet to pass Obadiah Hakeswill as a character!!!!!!! and no i do not have any first editions :(

Mr. Cornwell, I just wanted to thank you for writing such amazing and captivating stories. I have long been interested in the Napoleonic wars and was always looking for books that would cover the period. I looked and looked and then suddenly, there was Sharpe's Fortress! I began reading the series out of order (I didn't think to look at the back of the book and see the actual order) But in the end, this series became my favorite. I became obsessed with the TV series with Sean Bean, and bought those too. I recently bought the Grail series and was not disappointed, your writing is both superb and captivating, and your historical detail astonishes me! Please consider this my thanks for giving me hours of reading pleasure and excitement. Your books are the standard by which I measure all other historical fiction novels. So thank you again Mr. Cornwell, and I look forward to reading the rest of your books. Thank you again! Gabriel Moreno

Mr. Cornwell, I was just a young pre-teen when I stumbled upon the Winter King, and since I have not been able to put down any of your books. I appreciate the depth in which you describe the battles and the strategy both in the political and social arenas. Currently Uhtred is my favorite character, his sense of humor is so refreshing, and the people he surrounds himself with are so colorful. I can't wait for the next installment. Thank you for all the wonderful hours of pure delight! Naomi Doboze

Just finished the Starbuck chronicles! That was after reading the Sharpe books, all of them! I love historical novels and yours are the best yet. I love the "big words" that you use and run to the dictionary to see what they mean! Please, finish the Starbuck books, too many unfinished character studies and important ideas to explore. I appreciate the wry comments on life and human nature your unlikely characters come up with and your insights and descriptions of life and war. Please keep writing. You have a gift! Sheryl

Dear Mr. Cornwell: Thank you for your wonderful writing. I know you have your own agenda and master plan, but I would like to respectfully encourage you to put out another Nate Starbuck novel. I came late to Mr. Starbuck -- just in the last few months -- but I devoured the four books in that series with relish. I have grown to know and admire the characters -- besides Starbuck, I like Brig. Gen. Swynyard very much -- and I am dying to know what happens to the Faulconer Legion after Antietam! Again, thank you for your wonderful books. -Dan Homstad, Minneapolis, MN

A friend of mine just introduced me to you as an author. She thought I might enjoy The Last Kingdom. The book sat on my book shelf for I don't know how many months and one day, feeling bad that I hadn't read it yet, picked it up and started reading. It's only been one week since I picked up that book and am already half way through Sword Song. I'm hooked! I love this particular series and hope there will be more, but I'm looking forward to reading The Winter King next (I already have the book on my shelf waiting). Thanks for writing an amazing story! Teri

Dear Bernard. I wish to tell you how much I enjoy the Sharpe novels. I am a biologist, and work long days in the quantitative scientific details of my study system. Your novels carry me away to a very relaxed and exciting place. Thank you, sir. Mark

I have just now, for the fourth (?) time, completed the Warlord Chronicles. In many readings, the story has never lost one iota of its realness. it makes a history clouded by fanciful nonsense tangible, authentic, and I cannot thank you enough for bringing a legend I already loved alive in a way unlike any other. I have also read Stonehenge, the Sharpe series (most of them, at least!), and I am quite excited about Azincourt, another period of history that fascinates me. However, the Warlord series appeals not just to my personal love of Arthurian legend, but also to my professional training as an anthropologist. Although there is obviously a separation between your work and the "real," your ability to give life to everyday things gives me a fictional, but fantastic, view into pasts I only wish I could have witnessed. When I think of Arthur, and of the movies that have been made, and the thousands of words bandied back and forth by scholars, your work may be fictional, but i think you have the right idea. Thank you so very much for your work. Trust that your efforts do not fall on deaf ears. Cheers! Jonathan Brown

Dear Bernard, Just a quick note of thanks. I've just finished reading the Arthur books (late to work this morning after staying up a little too late last night on the final pages of Excalibur, but it was worth it.) You brought the whole era vividly to life, and I've found myself online in my spare hours researching Aelle and Cerdic and shield walls and all sorts of things like that. Off to Amazon to order the Saxon stories and Azincourt next. Best of luck on whatever you're working on. Thanks again, Paul Roberts Tokyo

Just want to say Thank You! I have just 'found' YOU and the Sharpe books and am fascinated with your style of writing.. You put me 'right there' in the middle of the action! Not as an observer, but as a participant. I am 77 years old and hope I have enough years left to read all you have written... :-) Thank you again... Elinor Asdell