Your Questions

Hello do you know when the Last Kingdom will be aired in the UK yet? I am really looking forward to it.

Regards

Helen Powell

 

I would just like to start by saying how much joy your books have brought me whilst away in Afghan with the British Army and many other places over the world. I have just found out whilst looking for the next Uhtred novel that "The Last Kingdom" will be aired on BBC America this October. Do you know if this will eventually be shown on the BBC in the UK?

Dewi

 

Have read everything you've published!  Enjoyed the lot!  Thanks - just found out that BBC America have made a film of the Last Kingdom - do you have any info on when it will be shown on UK TV?

Mike Claridge

 

I have read that The Last Kingdom has been made into  TV series by BBC America --  are we likely to see this on British TV any time soon ?

Alan Thompson

 

Hi, I'm a long term fan who has recently got back into reading your novels.  I'm reading the Saxon tales at the moment as I had only read the 1st 3 in the past.  I love them and am now looking forward to the TV show. It's a real shame I can't find a release date for the show in the UK though.  I'm going to be gutted if my American friends get to see it first, especially after I raved about how good it should be!

Marie

 

I was greatly interested to learn that The Last Kingdom is to hit the screen soon. As a UK resident I would like to know if and when the BBC will be showing the series as I cannot find any trace yet on iPlayer? My entire family is working its way through your Warrior Chronicles and some day soon I will go to Bamburgh which looks delightful. Thank you for taking such an interesting slant on Anglo Saxon history; I find it much easier to learn it now I can imagine your likeable but brutal hero dissing the Christian obsession with saints' bones and relics......Sometimes I wish he would have fought for the Danes instead!

Michaela Davies

Will the Sharpe  books ever be published by one publisher and perhaps released in box sets!!

Jared Elliott Minor

 

After reading Stonehenge,  I saw a reference to the huge burial mound in Ireland when the character camaban went there by boat via the western sea...I was wondering your thoughts about skara brae, the neolithic settlement in the orkneys...who were they? Was the climate more habitable than Orkney in modern times? It will be hard enough living there today, let alone before electricity and modern comforts... It is so far north I didn't think human habitation reach that far away from the mainland Europe so far back in time... Were they from remanents of a lost civilization? Or where the Orkneys, mainland of Britain, Ireland, all connected to the mainland Europe at the time? (Doggerland?)

Jorge Irwin

 

Hi Bernard,

Is Richard Sharpe's father Chauvelin, the villain from the scarlet pimpernel? If take out "u" and "in" and there is an anagram of "cheval".

Mike Dey

 

Has anyone solved it yet? I reckon his name is Laurence. Take you (u) out and put (me) in and a horse appears (La Mer) in this happy person ('as happy as Larry').

Rosemary Olds

 

I simply can't understand why the TV and film world are so hell bent on remakes, when so many of your books are better than 99% of the garbage that appears on the big and little screens. I suppose as an author, you are happy to see your work in print. Is/are there a book/s that you have written you would like to see on the big screen and surely you must have some influence it seeing it happen. Which one/s and why? Love your work, please keep writing.

Terry McConnell

My husband and I great fans of your work (along with half the known universe!). While patiently waiting for the release of  'Warriors of the Storm', we have been reading your other books, which, I can report, are also excellent. We are reading Azincourt at the moment and Waterloo will follow. We really do miss Uhtred, though. He's become like an absent family member to us and we talk about him all the time.  Although the young man who plays Uhtred in the TV series looks very handsome and macho, can you please tell me why you didn't insist he must have fair hair like our beloved hero? Uhtred's long, fair hair is mentioned so many times in your books.  I will give the TV series a chance, of course, but how can someone so dark possibly be Uhtred?.  Please keep writing more.  You truly are a master.

Regards,

Irene.

 

Mr. Cornwell-

I just finished "Waterloo" and I certainly have enjoyed it.

Fantastic as your creation itself is, reading the accounts both fires the imagination, grants insights into the minds of folks from those times, an inspires a thirst for deeper knowledge. To go online and see the state of Hougoumont, imagining it now looks as it might have on June 1, 1815...dizzying!

Anyway, I wanted even more. Inadvertently, I discovered the 1970 movie account of the battle. While your book leads me to recognize it's inaccuracies, the scenes of the battles are stunning. All real, no CGI. Quite spectacular.  If it were made today, they would add WAY too many people, and have seemingly superpowered soldiers battling. (Absurd to see 500,000 men at the walls of Troy!) Any, was curious if you ever got to see it? A snippet :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N-FCf4gGoY

 

Chris Hosfeld

Atlanta, Ga

In Alfred The Great's era was a lefty swordsman with his shield on his right arm allowed on the Shield Wall? Was any boy allowed to grow up to fight lefty at all?

Eugenio Baban

I've just re read Harlequin. What a character Sir Simon Jekyll is! He should have his own book. An English knight, winner of European tournaments who can't even afford proper armour. A man who is kicked around by fate, has his head kicked in by the social hierarchy and has his dignity scoffed by a selfish brat. Yes, he is a stupid pig bastard, but what a book he'd make! Ever been tempted to have a villainous main character? And a truly villainous one, not like Sharpe or Uhtred.

Thanks,

James Trethowan.

Whilst I enjoy the Saxon stories, I really do miss Sharpie. Any chance of a story with him back in Spain with the British Auxiliary Legion Rifles in the First Carlist War? Go on, you know it makes sense....

Paul Benham