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Dear Bernard, Just a note to say thanks for giving me hours of entertainment on the loo! (My only sanctary from my lovely, but equally noisy family :-) All the best, Shaun

Dear Bernard, Apologies for my previous post if it caused any offence. It was meant to be light-hearted, but after reading so many well-crafted compliments on your feedback page I've had a pang of guilt for not being more eloquent with my praise. (On the other hand, you could have found it funny and now I've spoilt it by sucking-up to you - oh well!!) I've read hundreds of books from all sorts of genres, and before reading your books I think only two other writers had managed to capture my imagination in the same way; Stephen King and Michael Crichton. The key is the telling of the story. Anyone can put a plot together and tell a tale, but you do it in a way that draws me in and makes me feel like a real part of it. Like I'm hovering just over the scenes and can see, taste, feel, and smell everything that's going on. You've also now given me a few years supply of birthday present ideas for the wife. It's an amazing gift you have - thanks for sharing it :-) Cheers, Shaun

I just finished Heretic; it was excellent. Your Sharpe stories are aso superb. I always recommend your books to friends. However, reading your stories makes me very glad to be alive in 2006 and not it the past times you describe. Keep up the great work! Thank you...
Carl Ross

Hello Mr. Cornwell I wish to thank you for sending me a autographed picture. Now I'm reading the Sharpe's Books. They are perfect, the history, the personages, everything. It's a great history basead in a time of great changes in our world. Thanks DiegoJB Timbó - Santa Catarina - Brazil

Dear Bernard, Fate is inexorable. Fate led me to pick up your amazing books and develop a love for your historical fiction. It began in 2003 when I started working at Warwick Castle and met a very interesting man, Kevin Hicks.He was full of amazing and powerful stories from every era in history, he told me of your meeting at the Castle and suggested as a student of history that it would be a shame for me not to pick up your works and take a step back in time. Ever since that day I have been enjoying your adventures in history, naturally Kevin was very keen for me to pick up the Thomas of Hookton novels, which was just the beginning of a love for your work. You have been an inspiration to me, I hope one day that I too can produce, research and create such a magical place in the world of words as you have done, for so many people to enjoy and to discover the delights of history. I am eternally grateful to your wife, for the three spinners did indeed intend for you to end up in the US and write as beautifully as you do. If you ever need an extra hand with your research, I would be more than happy to volunteer my services, if only to say that I worked alongside one of the 21st Century's greatest historical fiction author. Yours sincerely, Holly Ingram.

As an avid reader of both your Sharpe and other books, I am hoping that you will be doing a book tour or even just a single presentation about your latest book. You can count on a warm welcome in New York City. Best regards, Mitchell Saltzman

Hi, I picked up a book called Fallen Angels years ago and have re-read it a number of times. It is on "My Favorites" book shelf. One of my two beautiful daughters call and ask if I knew Susanna Kells was married to Bernard Cornwell. I didn't but over the past year and a half, I have read all of your books, and Ms. Kells except Aristrocrats, which I have not been able to find. I received the entire set of "Sharps" for Christmas, and picked up Sharps Fury and will be sorry when I finish it. My girls struggle with the fact their mother had rather read stories of bloody battles that the current romance authors. My only wish, being a Georgian and familiar with the Civil War battles, is to see Starbuck at Gettysburg. He would excape of course, but it would be a really great story. I wish you would not mention the word "retire". As a sixty eight year old I am just getting to read, and read and read. Happy New Year Mr. Cornwell and Ms. Kells. Nancy Thornton

Hello Bernard, I write for two reasons.....firstly you have spoilt everything! Yes spoilt as in you have stopped me from reading my first favourite authors as you are so good! It is not fair on them! Shame on you for having such a natural and enigmatic way with words with the weaving of your stories through the fabric of your books.... Secondly (I apologise for my vivid imagination here) I absolutely adore 'The Saxon Stories' but therein lies the problem. I love rock music and I can already picture Uhtred and his friends riding in slow motion through the mists in a morning fog towards the camera to the sound of 'Metal Gods' by Judas Priest...if I had the money I would be producing the film now with the delicious casting process all wrapped up! If you get the opportunity - please listen to the song and picture it - it sends the hackles up on my neck! I have now finished the 'Lords of the North' and await with bated breath for the next instalment with Serpent Breath... regards Jayne Mason

Dear Bernard I have never read or heard about you until I was given the first saxon book as a xmas gift. It was fantastic and I could not put it down. I normally just read James Patterson books. My only comment is could you make the chapters shorter and have a summary page of the story maybe half way through the book.thanks Allan

Dear Mr. Cornwell, I read your Holy Grail trilogy and loved it. I just finished Gallows Thief and thoroughly enjoyed it! A wonderful book with wonderfull characters. I hope we may see more of Rider Sandman and his friends in the future.I'd like to see more of Sally Hood and the sargeant. I've told my book list about it and recommended it. I look forward to reading more of your books. Sincerely, Mary Romero

Hello Mr Cornwell. This is just a short note to tell you how much pleasure I get from the Sharpe Series. I had seen the books in book shops for many years, but failed to pick them up. However, while I was serving in Iraq (with the Australian Army in 2004) a colleague sent me the TV series -which became an instant smash hit with the officers I shared my accommodation with. So much so, over a period of several weeks we had many "Sharpe Nights" where we would all get together to cheer Sharpe's latest exploits - especially his trials and tribulations with the femme fatales he met along the way. When at war, it is women who tend to put things in perspective! Suffice is to say Sharpe, Harper and the women helped us through the monotony of headquarters life in Baghdad! On return to Australia I have been acquiring the novels and devouring them as often as I can pick them up. They are such fun and a real escape. Thanks from an avid fan. Best regards Rob Barnes Cooma, NSW, Australia (PS - we all loved the story where Sharpe was "threatened" with command of a penal colony in NSW - trust me, its not such a bad place!!)