Your Questions

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

Mr Cornwell,

I'm a huge fan of your work (especially the the Arthur books and the newly-renamed "Last Kingdom" series), and I was wondering if you have any interest in pre-brittonic Anglo-Saxon history? I just finished Sharon Turner's book "The History of the Anglo Saxons", and therein, Turner postulates that the progenitors of the Anglo-Saxons are the ancient Scythian peoples of the Pontic Steppes. I was wondering if you're familiar with this theory, and if you have any interest in writing concerning this period? Perhaps something akin to your Stonehenge novel?

Thanks for the many hours of great reading!

 

Chris Tilton

I am currently reading your book Waterloo, and thoroughly enjoying it. Do you have plans to write any more narrative nonfiction?

Jason

Hi

Please can you let us know which books will be covered in the second TV series of the last kingdom and when it's planned to be shown in the UK?

Many thanks

Richard

Hi Mr Cornwell

The last sentence of your historical notes in "THE BLOODY GROUND" states that "Starbuck will march again". When?

Sincerely,

Fred Orman