Your Questions

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

Firstly, I'd like to thank you for the great pleasure your work has brought me over the years. I was first introduced to it via your Richard Sharpe books as a teenagers & now as a man in my mid 40's I have discovered them all over again mainly thanks to new (well new to me) medium of electronic books.

I appreciate that as a writer to will have many idea's for future books covering both new previously unexplored avenues & characters/time periods you have already written about. I presume those ideas are prioritised into some sort of 'to do' list. My question is this, is there any realistic chance we will see another Richard Sharpe novel published? The basis behind my query is simple & I'm afraid to say selfish. I find the period the works are set in fascinating & the characters you have created a marvellous way to bring it to life. Like anything you enjoy greatly, you always want more.

Regards

Will O'Brien

I am an avid fan of all of your books Mr Cornwell. I am a combat veteran of Afghanistan myself and your stories seem so real about these fighting men throughout the past.  I was wondering about stories of a poor English soldier fighting in afghan or africa. The Victorian Era was such an age of romance and discovery in itself. I would love to read your version of this time. Also, I understand as an englishman, you are probably not too fond of the jacobite rebellions. However, many Americans are scotch and I myself would like to read a real life, gritty version of them. Not the sappy romantic and even downright false versions of other authors. Thank you for your time sir and I hope to hear back from you.

Kurt Kugler

Hi Mr. Cornwell,

I'm a Canadian but am currently living and teaching in Aldershot, England. I'm sure you'll be quite familiar with the town as I've seen it mentioned in some of the Sharpe books before.

I know that in the past you've had Sharpe on some tight time lines to make a story work. Have you ever considered doing some Sharpe books based in Canada during the War of 1812? Isaac Brock is a fascinating individual (as are Laura Secord, James Fitzgibbons and Tecumseh) and the burning of the White House would be a classic bit of history for Sharpe to be involved in.

Regardless, please keep writing such wonderful books!

Thanks,

Ryan

Hello Mr Cornwell,

I own almost all of your books. They are amongst my favourites, I really do enjoy them. I was just wondering why you never wrote any historical fiction based in classical antiquity? Is it simply a period that does't interest you so much? Or just maybe with all of the books you have written a lack of time to fit ideas in?

Thank you so much for all the enjoyment you have given me over the past 10 years or so.

Kind Regards

J Harper

Hello Mr Cornwell

When  I read Toby Harnden's interview with you in The Telegraph, I was interested to see your birth father's name was Oughtred and that you had some connection to an English soldier at the Battle of Crecy - Was he an Oughtred or Robert Lord Uchtred? I only ask as my believed-to-be forebear, Sir Richard de Goldesburgh, is mentioned directly after Uchtred  in a description of Benjamin West's painting of  The Interview between the King and his victorious son the Black Prince, after the Battle of Cressy*

Regards

Richard Goldsbrough

 

*The source of my information can be found at this web page:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8cQuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=Azure,+a+cross+patonce+argent&source=bl&ots=TQr_UuTnW5&sig=iu557ZfKdKU-i62VMwY4IBDloB0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cmGhU-KqE7GM7AajyYDwBA#v=onepage&q=Azure%2C%20a%20cross%20patonce%20argent&f=false

Could you explain where you found the phrase  Uhtred uses, and what it translates to in English. I know it is something to do with his belief in fate, which can not be changed or foreseen. I am unable to correctly type the phrase, this is the best I can do.

Wyrd biò ful ãræd.

Lorraine Dent-Magnusson

More of a lifetime dream to adult hood but  have for over 12 years been praising that the best books  have ever read from thousand was the Warlord Chronicles. They are your most captivating and most worthy book to made for tv movie mini series. Will you ever get a chance to bring that story to life? Make the legend of Arthurian lore into the history of camalot.

Travis Dutton

 

So this is my second time contacting you, and I was elated that you got back to me the first time, so to start off I want to again thank you for taking the time to replying to us fans, as it is very hard to contact other professionals to ask things of them. I realize the effort that takes, and again, thank you! As to what I am asking today, I believe a while back you had answered a question about the rights of the Warlord Chronicles being acquired for adaptation, so I was wondering if you had any more news on that front, or if I had remembered  that wrong. Again thank you for your time and your responses! I am eagerly awaiting Flame Bearer!

Michael Oden

Dear Mr Cornwall

I've so enjoyed your 'Last Kingdom' book series & have read it twice in it's entirety in a year. This has led me to read more about British history and the Anglo Saxon settlement of England in particular. I've always belived that there was an Anglo Saxon invasion, but now I'm lead to believe that this never took place, that Britain became Anglo Saxon through 'acculturalisation'. If they were a minority culture, how did there's become so dominant? What is your view on this?

Kind regards

Kate

Morning,

First, I'd like to thank you for the truly excellent Saxon Series.  I've read all and each is just great.  I find myself connecting with the Uhtred character.  Starting over again with the series to capture more of what I first read.  Question  - you portray Alfred as very clever but totally captured by his priests and Christian doctrine.  Also, he is portrayed as not being the warrior type (thin, no interest in violence) and much afflicted by digestive system problems.  Is there real evidence of this?

Larry Gerfen

Hello Mr Cornwell.

Uthed is a builder, he says so him self. He goes so far as to say he loves building. He also has great empathy for London, loving its hustle and bustle and its vibrance. Although the first stone bridge was not seen until 1209, could it not be possible for Uthred to be tasked with re-building the ruined bridge? I live and work in Wantage, Alfreds birth place, and so am surrounded and submersed everyday in Uthred's struggles.

Many thanks for hours of contentment.

Phil Herbert