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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

You may already be aware of this. Thought I'd send you a link anyway. http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/. This is a fellow who may have figured out a great deal of a simple, low tech way to move big rocks. Enjoy, J M Fox

Hey Bernard you don't have to answer this email mate.I just wanted to tell you that I love your books and have finished the Saxon Stories and have begun the Arthur Books.Thank you for your stories.Keep them coming mate. Geoff

I saw the TV series before I read the books , and must say I prefer the books as my own imagination can run much wilder then any film, thanks for some really great books. Richard

Just a thank you for hosting the Reading Club venue on your site. I've found it to be a wonderful source for suggested reading. G. E. Coburn