Your Questions

Hi,

Wikipedia tells me that 1356 belongs in the Grail Quest series, but it's not listed there...

Licensing The Last Kingdom to Netflix was a good step -- they are doing a good job with it.  I have enjoyed the first year of the series, and I am now picking up the Grail Quest series.

Alan

Which of the book series were included in the BBC series first season?  Do you anticipate a season 2?

Clay Humphries

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

I just finished re-reading Agincourt.  I loved it the first time but picked up on so much more this time around.  One thing I noticed was that in the final battle scenes, I believe you changed POV 18 times between 5 characters. Changing POV can be tricky so I wondered if you might share your thoughts on how to successfully change POV within a scene and/or how you charted/decided to switch viewpoints as you were writing.

RJ

Found this video on You Tube of re-enactors at Fort Henry Canada using British drill movements. They are of a later period and with more modern weapons but I feel it gives you a feel of a Napoleonic battle, I thought the platoon fire was more terrifying than the volley fire, what do you think?  https://youtu.be/fqGiSoY-zr0

Peter Brown

You have stated that the Battle of Brunanburh will feature in your future Saxon Chronicles books.  I wonder if you have decided where you will place Brunanburh as there seems to be disagreement amongst historians.

I have recently purchased an engraving of Britannia Salonica by M Burghers c. 1720 which clearly shows Brunanburgh as being somewhere between Coldstream and Norham, just north west of Bamburgh or as it shows on the map, Bebbaburh.

I wondered what your thoughts are on this.

Please keep writing your wonderful stories which have held me spellbound.

Ann

Hi Mr. Cornwell!

Could Sharpe have any involvement in the flight of the Royal Portuguese family to Brazil? I believe that by the chronology of history it would be possible, is that right? Thank you for the fantastic books, hope to see you in Brazil someday!

Bruno Gavinho

Hi Bernard.

Loved the Sharpe books and enjoyed their adaption to the screen.

The other day I was re-watching Sharpe's Regiment and the chase scene in the marshes. Sharpe is hiding below a bank and is mostly submerged. Is it my imagination or was Mr Bean's head nearly split in two by the hoof of a pursuing horse ? Or is that a dummy and some nifty editing took place ?

Even watching it frame by frame, it looks real and an amazingly close call.

Intrigued.

Jonas

Hello Bernard,

I am currently writing the first draft of what I hope to be my first novel.  At 6000 words so far, I feel I'm on roll and will continue with what I'm creating.  I intend to finish my work somewhere between 80k - 90k of words, as I'm told that is the average size that an agent will contemplate working with.

Because my novel is historic fiction, I was wondering on how you found your agent with your own work.  And also, I am worried that once I've created my novel, that, if I send a manuscript to an agent, that they might somehow steal it and pass it off as their own work.  Do you know a way in which I can overcome this problem?

Thank you for reading my e-mail,

Regards,

Stuart McCabe

P.S. I read your book The Fort, and it taught me more about the American Revolution/Independence than ever before, and I thought it was epic.

Hi,

The Warlord trilogy is my absolute favorite of your books. I've read there's talk of making a tv series of it. I'd love to see that , especially with all the complex female characters you created.

I'll volunteer to write it. Would that maybe speed things along? I'm retired so I have the time...

Can I just go ahead and start or do I need to buy the rights or something?

Thanks,

Anna

Dear Mr Cornwell,

I am still having fun with the flamebearer, among all the other things I like the dialogues and the pre-battle insults. Knowing these things is especially helpful in modern business language and communication. Are these insults pure inventions or is there any historical information available?

Regards

Christian Zier