Your Questions

Hi Bernard Are any of the Arthur audio books available on CD? I have only ever been able to track down cassette versions. If not presently are there any plans to produce CDs at a later date. Many thanks. Chris Gay

Dear Bernard. I have a friend in London who is a published author. We have talked about your books together, and I was rather put off by her assumption that, just because you have published so many books (and perhaps because she has only published 2 in 6 years), that you don't actually write your own books. She poo-poohed you away with a flap of her hand and said there were many writers who do the Bernard Cornwell books. I don't believe her myself, but have to ask, do you write all your books yourself? PS I always bring out Sharpe's Christmas at this time of year. I just love it.
Robin Goodhand

Dear Mr Cornwell, I seem to recollect somewhere that you wrote a description of the Viking era and lifestyle, probably as a foreward or brief essay, in which you rounded up the piece by saying that we as a culture were fascinated by the Vikings because they were essentially free spirits. Unfortunately I cannot remember where I read this, but would love to find and read it again. If this rings any bells, please can you point me in the right direction. Keep up the good work, Tom.

Hello Mr.Cornwell. Recently read (and enjoyed!)your three viking books,I was wondering if you delibaretly dropped out the influence of skalds and their kvads(heroic poems) in your novels? I am a Norwegian and I teach history here,so I have read a few Scandinavian novels from this period of time. All of them give the skalds(bards)a very central position and the writers put lots of kvads (with heavy alliteration) in every other page, but you have dropped this entirely. Personally I think this is a good thing, as they tend to bore the reader. If you ever need a viking name for a character,feel free to use mine.. Merry Jule to you and your family. Leiv Ingebretsen

I thought I read in your "Diary" that you received some honor from Queen Elizabeth, but I cannot remember what it was, or what it means. Thanks, --Joe

I have just finished reading Harlequin and it seems that I underestimated your talents once again for that novel was better than any Sharpe book and Gallows Thief. Therefore it has become my favourite book because everything about it was brilliant. Apart from the death of Will Skeat. Why did you kill him off? Elliot Clayton

Merry Christmas Mr Cornwell Thank you so much for the books you have written I have joined Audible Books and discovered you :) I just wanted to tell you. your mone heck of a author I am a white woman married to a black american and had always been anti south for the civil war You made me feel like cheering eveytime the Rebs won a battle and crying when they died so bravely Of course I am refering to the Starbuck Chronicles and my question is Will there be another book after Bloody Ground and have you any idea when :)I have also listened to the Saxon and the grail books You are now one of two best writers I know of You are in very good company with Setphen King in my books :) thank you and keep them coming :)
Peggy Craggette

I've read the Arthur Books, the Grail Quest, the Saxon Stories, and some others, and loved them all. I just read Sharpe's Tiger and have one question: is it important to read the Sharpe series in chronological order? My local bookstore doesn't have them all in stock. Thanks. Bill Clemmons

Dear Mr. Cornwell, I just wanted to let you know how much I thoroughly enjoy your books. I'm an active duty U.S. Marine and by chance happened to pick up Sharpe's Gold while I was deployed to the Middle East during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2003. From the moment I read the first word, I was hooked. I took it with me when we pushed up to Baghdad but couldn't get my hands on any of your other books until I got back to the states several months later. Since then I've read all but Sharpe's Fury. I've actually read most of your books except Gallows Thief and Stonehenge. Many of them took up quite a bit of room when I deployed to Iraq for the second time in 2004-2005. Your talent as a story teller allowed me an opportuniy to leave behind, if only for a short while, some of the challenges I faced while deployed away from my family and the safety of my home. Because of your work, I've decided to use some of your writing advice and write a story of my own using some of my experiences in the middle east. We'll see how that works out. Again, I'd like to express my sincere gratitude for all your work. With deepest respect and admiration, Chago Z Gunnery Sgt U.S. Marine Corps

I have just finished "The Bloody Ground". At the end you leave the fate of Billy Blythe up in the air indicating that he will be taken care of in a subsequent books. However, there are no subsequent books. Why did you not write any more or at least make sure Blythe was taken care of? I have read about 30 of your books and it is not like you to leave things unresolved like this. I am just interested in whether you intended to write another book at the time you finished this one and destroy Mr. Blythe and for some reason did not. Tom Walker