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I was delighed to find you had a personalised website. I was prompted to search the web for it this morning after completing the Authur series last night (the 3 books only took a couple of days, what with reading until 4 o'clock in the morning and in lunch breaks, etc.) I had previously only read your Grail Quest series and found the first of the Aurthur series while wondering around a shopping centre in search of something to keep me busy for the weekend! I hadn't finished the first book when I rushed out to buy the second two (being South Africa, you can't always find the rest of the series that easily) Derfel is without a doubt my favourite character of any book I've read - honour, dignity and loyalty - you have to look long and hard to find those qualities in people these days! My only complaint is - what do I read now?? I became so engrossed in Authur's world it is extremely difficult to face the everyday mundaity of work! So, I have no particular point to make so let me just say how much I am enjoying your books and the worlds you create, and I'm extremely glad to see I have a long way to go before I've read them all! Regards, Robyn MacDonald

Mr. Cornwell I am an avid reader of all your works. Cannot believe we have to wait until January for the next Saxon book. I decided that is the U.S. publishers loss and just ordered the book through Amazon UK. I can't wait for its arrival. Thanks for your great stories. Rob Rose

Thank you for dedicating The Pale Horseman to George MacDonald Fraser. It was with great pleasure that one author who had given me so many hours of pleasure honored another who had done the same. Ron Black

Dear Mr. Cornwell, I really enjoy the Sharpe Books, but every time I read a passage where a bullet picks a man up off his feet, or knocks him backwards, I cringe. Such an action defies the laws of physics. Best regards. Ralland J. Fortier

Thank you so much. Your books have meant so much to me. Laughed and cried for Sharpe. I am humbled at your talent. Thanks again. Johnny Sheffield

Dear Mr. Cornwell, I read the post from Jennifer dated 31 May concerning the different sizes of Sharpe books sold in American book stores. I, too, was bothered by this and solved the problem by ordering all of them from Amazon.UK. There are two different styles of covers, but at least they're all the same size. I hope this helps her! Thank you for so much enjoyment! Kathy Foley

I have just bought your new book the Lords of the North to read on holiday. I could not put it down and now have no book to read when away. Why did you stop it were you did, why could not they have marched to take Bebbanburg. It feels that you have only told half the tale. I need to know what the next book in the series is to be so I can finish the story. Excellent read - I can not remember the last time I was left on the edge of my seat by a book. Many Thanks Best regards, Greg Chadwick

Hello Bernard, I first stumbled across your writings when my Welsh uncle lent me a copy of the Winter King and I must say that no Author since Roald Dahl in my childhood has quite had the impact on my reading habits since that one faithful event. I read through the Warlord Chronicles and enjoyed them immeasurably. Since then I have read the grail quest and recently I have started your saxon tales. After picking up the Last Kingdom last year I had been waiting for The Pale Horseman to come to a local bookstore for 6 months which felt like a lifetime. I stumbled across both The Pale Horseman and The Lords of the North last week whist looking through my local Waterstones. Both of which I immediatley purchased and ran away like an over excited school girl and read both books in 2 days. My question is when is the next of Uhtred's tales to be put to paper? To say I am looking forward to future books in the series is an understatment. Anyway, I would like to take this opertunity to wish you every success in the future and hope that you continue to write many more wonderful books! Yours Sincerly, Marc Keys

Hi, please write more Starbuck!!! please I'm so frustrated as I have just finished The Bloody Ground and now have nothing to read!!! please. thanks, Ash

Dear Mr. Cornwell I have to begin by saying that my father always encouraged me to read. I remember when I was tweleve he put me in a small bookstore and said I was not leaving untill I found something to read. It was magic when I found Sharpe's Rifles sitting right there in front of my eyes. The photo of gold coins and a musket caught my eye... now seven years later I find myself far away from home on the other side of the world here in Taji Iraq, just on the outskirts of Baghdad still bleeding dry the words inside each and everyone of your novels. My deployment is a long one, and every book I read and re-read from each and every one of your series' passes the time very fast. All I want to say is THANK YOU for constantly writing endless titles. May the great books never end. -Private Brian Obstbaum 4th Infantry Divison Taji Iraq

We were both born on the same day, February 23rd 1944 - what a great vintage! I'm a British expat, currently living in Arizona, where I write gun magazine articles and teach the natives the gentle arts of gunfighting. I've also published a novel, 'Snides', and my agent is currently looking over the sequel, so I'm hoping she can find a publisher. 'Snides' is first of a series, which has as its lead character an ex-SAS militaria dealer who happens across one of the four copies of Hitler's Polotical Testament, together with an album of incriminating photos of a British renegade, who fought for the Germans during WW2, as a member of the British Free Corps, a unit of the Waffen-SS recruited from British POWs. The sequel will have John Pilgrim, the hero of the series, getting his hands on the long-lost Nazi 'Blood Banner'. I enjoy your Sharpe books, and the Starbuck series, but I'm afraid that Arthur jest ain't mah period. Happy 63rd next February, Tony Walker