Your Questions

Hello Mr. Cornwell, Are there any new books that you plan to release after The Last Kingdom? A new Sharpe or perhaps maybe even a new Starbuck? I'm sure that whatever it is it will be excellent! Until the next time, Dick Mock

Hello Bernard, I like Your books very much- I've read most of them, I guess. I live and work in Southern Greenland - a few miles from Brathalid where the Viking Eric the Red took land well over a 1000 years ago - he and his son, Leif Ericson or Leif the Lucky, colonized the South and the Midwest of Greenland - and even went to the Americas - their story is well-known and very exciting - why don't you use it in your next novel ? Sinc. Yours, Lars Deleuran, Librarian Qaqortoq Greenland www.fredericiahuguenotter.dk

Dear Mr Cornwell,
I'm a huge fan of your work and I have read most of your books.My favourite was the Warlord Trilogy, I was wondering if anyone has asked to make them into films? Personally I think the guy who made the Lord of the Rings would be good because he did not change much of Tolkien's books. Alexander Lees

Mr Cornwell, I appreciate you must get thousands of fan emails, letters and the like, also that thousands must start off like this and because I got the idea of starting like this so must others. However, I like probably others would like to thank you for writing such an excellent set of books which provide hours of imaginative creativity. I am talking of course about the Sharpe series. I first watched them on television while sitting on my grandfather's knee. After he passed away a few years ago I was wandering among the shelves of our local library and to my curiosity found your books. I had until then thought that Shapre was purely television! so I am thanking you for your books which bring back brilliant memories of my grandfather and for many exiting hours reading them, but also for creating a series about battles and a very interesting time in history that is not pure gore and gung ho and holds interest for male and female readers such as myself. But I must ask, how did you come up with the personality of Richard Sharpe? Yours in Gratitude Sarah Lee 16

Dear Bernard, if you and Richard Sharpe could trade with each other a certain quality, something which the other lacks but would benefit from having, what might you swap each other? Paul Reid, Cork.

I would just like to say thank you, through your brilliant creation of the Sharpe series I have found an excitement in reading again. My appetite for literature was severly dulled during my school career. It was your books that brought life back in to characters and situations. I have enjoyed with a grasping relish watching Sharpe as a character grow, not only did I like many people feel a certain comfort in Sharpes demure but also in the honest brutality which his character lived life. I suppose the question everyone asks is, will there be any more? Although finally reaching the end I understand now that there may not be anywhere else for Sharpe to go and that he might possibly find contentment, I'm sure he and Harper will find something to keep themselves occupied in my imagination. Thank you Simon

Mr Cornwell, I would like to ask you a couple of questions. I have read most of the Sharpe novels with a few gaps which I am now trying to fill in. I am just about to finish Sharpe's Tiger. First of all can I say that I think that 'Tiger' is one of the best Sharpe novels, if not the best. My questions are these. Sharpe's Tiger and Sharpe's Devil are currently the first and last in the series, will that always be the case or do you plan to write any earlier or later Sharpe novels? My second question is this. In Sharpe's Tiger (page 137 to be precise) Sharpe says that Sheffield is a 'Good place' and talks about a pub on Pond Street. Is it pure coincidence that Sharpe played on TV by Sheffield's finest Sean Bean makes reference to Sheffield or did you write those words with Sean Bean in mind, and is there/was there ever a pub called The Hawle on Pond Street? Thankyou. Barry Evans, Doncaster, UK

Fantastic books (Harlequin, Vagabond)gotta get the Gallows Thief. I was impressed so much I felt I needed to thank you for great entertainment!! I was wondering if the grail quest would be made into a film?? thanks, Chris

Mr Cornwell, I've read somewhere that you have a heavy cavalry sword hanging above your fireplace. Now I brought one and the missus said I can't have it on the fireplace but only on the wall! I've looked everywhere for a wall mounted stand that would work but so far without luck. I was wondering what holds yours up? Ben

Mr. Cornwell, I really enjoy your books and not only the action and adventure but learning stuff along the way too of what life was like in the various time periods of your series. I was fired up reading "Trafalgar" right at the same time "Master and Commander" came out on the big screen. I wish you all the best in your writing -- you truly have a way of capturing my attention and holding it thru to the end, that is until I pick up another book. Needless to say I recommend you to anyone I know who likes to read. I'm curious about Sharpe, is his demeanor in terms of "justice" outside of the law typical of officers of the time, especially officers who rose from the ranks? I do like the twist, because I see him going to the aid of someone not holding back because of how society might respond, but doing what is "right" as he knows that term. I'm in the Air Force and have been blessed to check out several of your books from the base library, but my own collection will grow soon. Hope you're in Texas one of these days. Friends always, James

Hello, Mr. Cornwell. I am currently in the thick of THE LAST KINGDOM (80 pages to go!) and absolutely loving it! I understand there will be a sequel, and I wondered when it might be scheduled to come out and what its working title is, if that can be divulged. I also wondered whether you might be doing a book tour for TLK in the US sometime in the near future. I live in New York, and I would love the chance to go to a reading/book signing, if one might be on the horizon. One comment about TLK in the meantime: I've been surprised at the ease with which Uhtred is able to switch allegiances between the Danes and the English. Occasionally he makes a comment about this, but overall, he doesn't seem too troubled by the fact of his divided loyalties. The one exception seems to be his feelings about Ragnar, which are constant and unsullied. How is it that he can go back and forth between the two camps and first kill the English, then the Danes (for whom he has a professed fondness and preference!) with apparently equal sword joy, as he would put it? Can you give me some insight into what makes him tick? I've read your Arthur trilogy, STONEHENGE, and the three GRAIL QUEST books, and I thought all of them were great. But I think this is the best thing you've written since THE WARLORD CHRONICLES, which remains my very favorite. Renee Tone