Your Questions

Dear Bernard

After reading this I thought you might find it interesting.

http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/essays/black-soldier-and-sailors-war/

 

Do you think Fredrickson would have been proud to serve with these men ?

 

Yours sincerely,

Geraint

Dear Mr. Cornwell

Like so many others, I am eagerly waiting for new book to Last Kingdom series. What I like most in your history books, is of course that "history comes alive" -feeling, and the second thing are those surprise moments in plot, it is something like from detective stories, all that bluffing and conspiracy..   So I like to ask, have you been reading stories like Sherlock Holmes much? Who was your favorite writer as a young man ? Keep up the good work

BR Simo

You mentioned that you  would like to write a Sharpe book about a battle that Sharpe was not present for. Are you going to write it and let him participate ?

Lynn O'Connor

Dear Mr Cornwell

I have been a fan of yours (especially the Sharpe series) since I was very young and having just finished the flame barer I went back to re-reading the Sharpe books. My question is what happened to Obadiah Hakeswill between Sharpe pushing him down the snake pit in Gawilghur, and his reappearance in Sharpe's company?

Yours

Breffni

Bernard,

You tear my wretched mind to shreds by not completing loose ends. I get way too involved in your stories but despair at two points (so far anyway I am about to start your Warlord Series)

Sharpe’s Chronicles – Captain Charles Morris, did I miss something here? Surely Sharpe should have his revenge, we can’t let the bugger escape unscathed it’s not proper and immoral! He is living the Highlife in Ireland?? Talking of which could he not get some money back from that evil ex-wife of his? I hope she became bankrupt at least.

Secondly, I am so with Gareth (Submitted March 10, 2017)  having just completed “The Bloody Ground” only to find out that you might finish it when you retire –----- Sir! I demand that you retire immediately and conclude the series so as not to leave me treading water as the ship recedes far into the distance with no land in sight.

Please sort these out and allow my thoughts some rest.

All the best

Rowan

P.S. - I would like to join your adoring fans, but fear your ego will grow too large and you may not grant my requests so I am going to pretend not to be one!

Dear Mr Cornwell

I have read and enjoyed very much all of your books. At a battle of the like of Waterloo when the musket was so inaccurate and the rifle could not shoot accurately over say 100 yards  do you think the archer could have been employed as a supplementary 'weapon'? I have read that an archer could be accurate at further distances than that.

Kind regards

Robair

Good Afternoon Mr Cornwell.

I've just finished the Starbuck series. At the end of book 4 you indicate Starbuck will ride again. Will there be a fifth book in the series?

By the way, I've read all the books in the Sharpe series...all but the last book in the Last Kingdom series, Waterloo, Gallows Thief, Stonehenge. I've yet to read the Warlord Chronicles.  I really appreciate your writing style.

Paul McInnis

I am just reading the 8th book in the Last Kingdom series. Being a woman, I find that there is a lot of blood and guts in the series. I have read other books about that time in history so I know it is true but life sure didn't mean much did it?

I was wondering though, when did the word shit come to be? I know that, originally, it meant "ship high in transit"but was that phrase common back in Uhtred"s time? I thought it came to be later on. Just Wondering.

Thank you for providing us with such a good pastime. The housework is beginning to pile up here.

Roberta from Vancouver Island (God's country)

Hi Bernard,

 

Firstly, I just want to say that - along with everyone else here - I love your works. From Arthur, to Uhtred, to Thomas of Hookton, I've yet to read a book of yours I haven't loved. So thanks for your amazing stories.

 

Recently, I was doing a bit of reading around the wider Arthurian legend and saw that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions a Saxon named Cerdic who (if he existed) later became one of the first kings of Wessex. I'm just wondering if this is the same Cerdic who is the enemy of Arthur and Derfel or if it is just coincidence?

 

Also, if it is intended, then am I right in saying that it means that one of your great heroes in Alfred is descended from one of your great villains in Cerdic. Perhaps there is scope to combine the two stories into one, gigantic saga, spanning all the way from Derfel, through to Uhtred and his capture of Bebbanburg. Maybe Finan could be descended from Oengus Mac Airem, and Brida descended from Nimue? Or am I just being greedy?

 

Either way, I love your work, and I check the website frequently for news of any upcoming works.

 

Many thanks for hours of entertainment,

 

Matt

Dear Bernard

I have read all, yes all of your books, from the sea fairing thrillers, upto and including the Uthred series.

Your books  have given me immense pleasure in  helping me in my recovery from a serious illness and for the escapism that your writings have given me and for that I cannot thank you enough.

However, it is obvious that Uthreds trials and tribulations are coming to an end and I was wondering if you have considered a trilogy or a book or two about the   'Anarchy' the period of English history of Matilda and Stephen. From reading factual books about the era, there are so many mental cases for you to play with that an author of your calibre would have a field day

However, whatever you decide to publish, I am certain that I will I will buy it and long may you continue..

Many thanks,

Gerard Mitchell