Your Questions

Dear Bernard, I'll start as most contributors do by congratulating you on a back catalogue of the most satisfying stories. I have read them all (and I do mean all) and enjoyed every one (including 'Stonehenge' which occasionally gets a lesser review amongst your public). Starting with Sharpe and making my way through your work I have also found my way to Simon Scarrow, Conn Iggulden, Allan Mallinson, John Wilcox and others. I have also developed what at times seems to be an unhealthy interest in military history and historical fiction (currently engrossed in William Napier's second installment of 'Attila'and just finished Conn Iggulden's fantastic 'Wolf of the Plains'). My question is, on the face of it, a simple one, but I hope to get you thinking. Of the authors writing in a similar genre to you, who would you choose to read on a lazy Saturday afternoon in the garden? Oh, and why? (please don't say Patrick O'Brian, I've followed this lead form a number of sources and don't quite understand the hype!!). Best Regards, Dominic

Thank you for the books you write . I recently finished a book about the Cathars which was interesting, but just lacked all that "hands on" stuff you do, so well! So, Heretic sorted me out with a fix , and then just finished the Saxon trilogy , and really chuffed that a forth book is coming out. Your writing is consistently awesome and gives me great pleasure , Thank you . I feel that if history was taught using your literature it would have been a subject I would have kept on doing at school . Do you plan to start a Myspace ? I would think it could prove popular ! Thanks again , Andy .

Thoroughly enjoyed your Saxon series (read them all in a row after a recommendation from my daughter) and am wondering if you will be continuing the series with another book? Barbara Duncan

Loved the books about Alfred , Lords of the North was excellent , is there going to be another book in the series and if so when would it be release? Ilive in Australia and believe it or not run my own sword fighting group out here cheers Mark

I have just finished reading the Saxon tales and they were wonderful. Are you going to continue the series?

Julie

Great books. When is the next Saxon story due for release? Tim Webb

When will more additions to the Saxon Series be released???? I love the stories about Uhtred and Alfred!!! Please tell me there will be a follow up to the Lords of the North?? Thank you!!

Cris Cross

Hi, I just want to say that I'm not a huge book reader, maybe reading the occasional paragraph here or there, but the Saxon stories had me hooked. I absolutely loved them. Uhtred is an absolute legend, and I'm sure from a 23 year old bloke that's got to be a compliment. I just wanted to ask when the fourth in the series is? I think the best way to put how I feel at the moment is a drug addict going cold turkey in anticipation. So, could you please let me know, I really need a decent book to read when I go on holiday.

Franki McDonald

Bernard, I am absolutely captivated by Uhtred. I've blitzed through the first three stories and am eagerly awaiting the next installment. When might that be? Are there any more Thomas of Hookton stories in the works? Really enjoyed those as well. Thomas Waters Lawton, Oklahoma, USA

After reading all of the warring series, I think I enjoyed the Starbuck series the most. Tonight, I finished Waterloo for the second time. I compare reading your books to my childhood love of "The Hardy Boys" series. I have a hard time imagining that you don't have help in creating these stories. Do you? My TV watching has decreased tremendously, much thanks. Brian

Good day Mr. Cornwell; I am a HUGE fan of your writing, it definitly helps pass the long winter months here in Canada. I was just wondering if you have ever considered doing anything onlong the Prince/King John, Richard the Lionheart vain. Maybe even throw in a little Hereward the Wake or Robin Hood. I know...no story ideas, but it is such a great fluid and changing time in British history!!! Thanks Mike

You open a door by introducing Sharpe's son in the Starbuck books - is it possible we may have tales of his adventures in the Crimea? regards David Lamb

Thank you for all the years of enjoyment that your books have afforded me, whether reading them for the first time or re-reading them. They've been a useful tool for me to get people excited about history & have it come alive for them after they've left a re-enactment event. One silly little question if you please. Lucille is said to have died in the video "Sharpe's Challenge" (1817 - 2 years past Waterloo) but in "Sharpe's Devil" (1820) She is alive. Also in the Starbuck Chronicles she's referred to living well past even 1820. I know that anachronisms easily creep into a long series, but it's created a friendly argument amongst some of my Sharpe circle of friends. What's the straight skinny please? tusen takk, or tusen taco as you prefer, Sven

Dear Mr. Cornwell, What do you do when you have writer's block? Where do you get information for your books?-(Historical info) K.S

Dear Mr. Cornwell, just a quick note to tell you how much I appreciate, first your books, and also your approachability. I read most of the Sharpe series, the Arthur books, Gallows Thief, and Scoundrel, and the Starbuck Chronicles which I didn't like that much, simply as a matter of taste, nothing else, like I don't like fish, but it's still great to eat. Are you ever planning to come to Malta on holiday ? I'll be waiting for you to sign my books and you'll get a look round our temples, which are 2,000 years older than Stonehenge !!! Keep it up and thanks. Stephen Spiteri

Carrying on from my last question, the pit is 3* larger than a man and one snake lunged at old Obadiah and why does he always make references to the scriptures because nobody ever heeds of their rules once they're out in the field even Wellesly (wellington)
Jamie Foyle