Your Questions

I love your Last Kingdom Series.. I see The Flame Bearer is out now and it appears it will be the last book, I will be purchasing it asap!  Will you continue with his son or with another character from the series?  Uhtred has become my absolute favorite character in literature and I am hoping you will provide a 2nd favorite. Reading the books makes me want to stand in the shield wall with Uhtred close enough to my enemies to smell their breathe and step in their shit after I kill them. It must be love if I would be willing to do that LOL.  Thank you so much for hours of entertainment!!

Shayne Bickford

 

Hello,

First of all, I absolutely love the Saxon Tales so thank you so much for all the research and everything else you did to make them as real and thought provoking as they are. I've read all of them several times and they often get me through hard times. I think everyone suffers from some form of depression or anxiety even if they don't realize it and I'm not exempt. I enjoy the audio books most of all as it seems to bring them to life and I can listen to them at work. Ok. I feel like I could go on about me and how much your books have effected me but I know you are a real person with a life and schedule and not the mythical figure I have in my head so I'll get to my question. I'll just get right to it and if you can't answer then I understand.

Is the Flame Bearer the last book in this series?

I'll buy the print copy when I can and if you answered this in an authors note at the end then I'll hopefully read it there. Thank you for the stories. May they last until Ragnarok.

Zach Reeb

 

I have just finished reading The Flame Bearer but was not sure if this was the last book in the series?  I was hoping it might cover Æthelstan's rule and the uniting of England. I think it's great that you are putting the spotlight on Æthelstan as he had nearly disappeared from history but seemed to achieve so much.

Simon White

 

Will you be writing another book on the Saxon Tale, I hope there is a another book, I will be disappointed, if it ends with this book. Your books are the best., and I enjoy them all.

Lea Croston

Dear Bernard,

I've come late to your books and especially enjoy the Saxon Tales with Uhtred of Bebbanburg which I've read three times up to the 8th book.  I'll be getting the 9th when I return to Maui.

The movement of the Saxons from Germany westward to Britain -- and then to North America is an intriguing thing to look at especially since we now seem to have an Apex Saxon as president.  There is much debate about immigration, but nothing is given, everything is taken...  In your books, the invader, first the Saxons in the Arthurian era and then the Danes in the Saxon tales have to fight for their right to party.

If you were to write a contemporary story of this latest “soft” invasion, from what position would your protagonist take?

Thanks — and I look forward to the continuation of the Saxon Tales even though I know they must end…

Best,

Malcolm

Dear Mr Cornwell,

I was delighted to see that it was a Captain Gilliland whose name you used for your rocket man in “Sharpe’s Enemy”.

The first time I have ever seen my surname used for a character in a novel. (I know of some authors who auction off that honour to raise money for charity.) And, as it is a bit of a rare surname, I must admit I never expected to see it in print like this. It was quite exciting.

Interestingly as a young man, during the late 1960’s, I also served in the infantry with the 48th Highlanders, an infantry Regiment out of Toronto, Canada. I became a specialist on a weapon called a Carl Gustaf anti tank missile launcher and became a sort of rocket man myself.

Can you by any chance recall how you came to use the name Gilliland for your rocket Captain?

Thank you being such a prolific author. My wife, Faye, and I are so enjoying working our way through all your novels. What an interesting, fascinating and addictive way to be entertained and learn a bit of history.

Yours

David Gilliland

Hi Bernard,

I am spending a week working on the isle of Portland and when the isle is certainly a eerie place when the lights go out and the wind picks up. I was just wondering if there is any truth to it's use in the warlord trilogy, or if it's just a bit of artistic licence?

Thanks,

Sean

Hi Mr. Cornwell.

Here's a question that recently occurred to me: In the afterword to some of your Uhtred novels, you state that England stood in the balance during the Viking Invasions, and if Alfred had lost, it would have been Daneland and we in America would be speaking some form of Danish.  But a little more than a century later, William the Conqueror took over England and did away with the Saxon way of things.  Yet England remained, it did not become "Normanland" are we are not speaking some form of Norman-French today.  Why is it that the Danish/Norse conquest would have done away with England and the the Norman Conquest did not?

Alan Kempner

Hi -

I'm a huge fan.  Have you considered using a specialty house like subterranean press to produced an illustrated signed limited edition?  I suspect I would buy all of your books again...

Noel Symons

 

Hi there, big fan of your work especially the last kingdom series. Lords of the North might go down as my favorite of the 10 so far.

Question for you, would you happen to know If the Norse/Danes/swedes used to sell each other for slaves as well as those they raided? For example the petty kingdoms in Norway, during those times would they have had slaves made up of other kingdoms within Norway?

Thanks!!

Hussein

Hello Bernard,

I love your Last Kingdom series and have read them all multiple times.  My question is about Sigtryggr.  When we first meet him in Death of Kings, he is called both Sigtryggr Ivarson and Olafson and his father in that book and Warriors of the Storm is called Jarl Ivar and Jarl Olaf.  Is this an eBook typo or an editorial mishap?  Either way, I will continue to read this series over and over and cannot wait for Book 11...even though Book 10 was just published in the US!

 

Thank you!

Cara Millstein

Dear Mr. Bernard Cornwell

For a good period of time I have been wondering what Mr. (Sweet)  William has been up to; now that he mustered out to the colony of Canada. Is it possible for you to fill me in. Is he OK? That is my main concern.

Sincerely;

Laurence Brill

I have just finished reading the first ten volumes, for the second or third time, I know maybe slightly excessive, however I do like to keep the story flowing. Any idea when volume 11 maybe released in UK?? Indeed to plan when I restart volume 1.

Regards & very best wishes from a Northumbrian resident trying to come to terms with local history.

If it is going to be a long wait I will just have to start the Sharpe series again.

Once again many thanks for a superb reading experience.

Barry Liddell