Your Questions

Hello Mr Cornwell.

After reading all of your books.. (and and I am still buzzing knowing that a 2nd series of novels have been converted into a tv series - [The Sharpe series and the Warlord Series]) I am wondering who is your all time favourite lead character?

Sharpe is a legend.. Uhtred will inevitably follow his inexorable fate .. Thomas of Hookton is a longbow god.. Starbuck is a fantastic character. Derfel Cadarn - Legend (possibly my favourite).. Rider Sandman, John Rossendale, Paul Shanhaan all great characters!  I guess It may be unfair to ask who is your favourite overall.. so I may just ask this instead - If there was no pressure from public demand, who would be your choice to bring to life to the 'Big Screen' in the way that YOU imagine him?

 

Keep up your masterclass writing skills sir!

 

Dave A

Hi Bernard,

do you have any intention of writing any more Sharpe novels, if so do you have a rough date in mind? If you don't have any intentions of writing any more Sharpe novels please would you reconsider? Thanks.

Mark

Dear Bernard,

Like a multitude of your fans, I have to thank you for the enjoyment you have given me over the years. Your research is such that you have greatly improved my historical knowledge.

I have enjoyed, the Last Kingdom, Sharpe and the Grail quest series the most and the Arthurian novels the least but I will still give them a second reading. I have wondered why this series did not catch my imagination as much as your pot boilers. The conclusion I came to was that this series is based on myth.

This leads me to ask how you choose the periods in history you write about, which are diverse?   I read for example that you have no intention of writing about Ancient Rome? Are your choices based on your research, expertise or is there an element you perceive to be of particular interest and will you in set future novels in other historical eras?

Regards,

Jack

PS Like so many others I can't wait to learn of Uhtred's further adventures.

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

Although I'm an avid reader (mostly non-fiction) and well into middle age, I've somehow overlooked your wonderful books till now.  Sea Lord came to me on the recommendation of a friend, and it lived up to his every glowing description.  Now, by looking around on your website, I make another pleasant discovery, which is that you're the author of The Last Kingdom, which my wife and I were drawn to quite by chance and then nearly binge-watched over the course of a few days.  My question is:  Why hasn't Sea Lord been made into a movie?  It has all the necessary elements for a gripping and not terribly expensive thriller.  Has anyone optioned it?

Regards,

Jim Marketos

Washington, D.C.

What's coming and when please? Amazon UK shows an untitled book this fall. More Saxon tales or something else?  Thank you

Steven Gibbs

Hi Bernard,

this is Duschan from Germany and I love your books :-)

I am afraid I am more than 10 years late for the party - however, as a big fan of your Sharpe novels I wondered if there would be any opportunity of a new novel any time?

I was thinking about the past 1821 time line (Sharpe being in France if I remember well). There could be a potential for Sharpe to take part of the Greek War of Independence. That would give him another 11 years of conflicts around the Greeks breaking free from the Ottoman Empire. From an international perspective France got engaged. And as a French resident in his 40ies this may qualify Sharpe to take part.
I must admit that this “opportunity” is me wishful thinking….
Anyway - thanks a lot for countless hours of joy reading your novels. You are one of my favorite authors.
kind regards
Duschan

Hi Mr Cornwell,

I have enormously enjoyed readying the Last Kingdom Series and wonder when the next one will be out as it seems there is some narrative yet to write. I can see from the questions posted that you intend to continue but don't want to find that I have missed the release date. Do you have a name in mind for it so that I can search later please? I have just read The Fort too and that became fascinating once I had my head around the characters and terms such as who 'Continental' referred to !

Thank you.

Barbara

Mr. Cornwell,

I just finished book 5 of the Last Kingdom series and I was wondering why Jonathan Keeble is not still doing the narration?  Although the new reader is ok, I thought Mr Keeble was outstanding, and really brought the books to life in an incredible way.  I look forward to reading the rest off the series, and many of your other books.

 

Thank you,

 

Sean Mulhearn

Hello Bernard

 

I hope you are well.

Firstly, I greatly enjoyed The Flame-Bearer, and without giving anything away for people who may not have read it, I was mildly surprised at the ending! I thought you would play that one out for a few more novels!

I also read Vagabond last Summer, NINE years after reading Harlequin! Heretic this Summer, I think!

I hope you'll be amused to hear I had a very vivid dream the other night, about thecNapoleonic Wars!  I was a Redcoat Sgt called Hobbs, and we had to get into a Fortress and scaled the walls with ropes. I can remember assuring a young Officer that we always won. Which, I'm sure around 1812/13, the Brits had started realising!

I can remember us singing as we stalked the Fortress looking for "Frogs". (possibly a bad strategy, if we were supposed to be surprising them!). I sang the Minstrel Boy. "Oh, glorious band, the chosen few, on whom the Spirit came.."

I can remember me and a young Marine bursting in on the French dining and I butchered a few with my bayonet. There was a bloody big scrap and I fought a couple of Indian Soldiers (not sure what they were doing there..), but the Officer I'd been with was killed. I'd promised nor  to leave his side, but..er...had...

Anyway, we killed the French, so HUZZAH!

I don't think dreams are covered by Copyright, so feel free to use this in any future Sharpe's!

Joking aside, do you ever dream about Sharpe or Uhtred of Thomas of Hookton? Or have you ever dreamt up a plot or character and then used it?

I wanted to read a Sharpe again, because its been a while, so after that dream there was only one I could read..Sharpe's Company! That was always one of my favourites.

Hope you don't think I've gone completely mad by telling you this!

Looking forward to Uhtred 11!

Warm Regards

Matt Copley

Hello,

Fist I would like to thank you for all of you books. I'm pretty sure I've read and reread all of them, you are by far my favorite author.

That said, I was planing to incorporate something from one of your books into a tattoo I'm planning on getting. My ideas so far have been either the 95th rifles patch or the symbol of Uthred's flag, The problem I've been having is finding the correct one. There are just too many different designs out there and I'm not sure who to trust. So I was wondering if you had a reference of the patch that Shape would of had on his uniform. Or If there is artwork of Uthred's crest out there that I'm not seeing.

Thank you for your time.

-Jeff-