Your Questions

Have just finished reading Waterloo which I thoroughly enjoyed, and was well worth the wait, having ordered in January and received on the kindle release date. I have always enjoyed your historical fiction and this was no disappointment. This book made history so readable and understandable, please continue to write more history books. Would love to know if you are considering writing a history on the battle of Agincourt.

Richard Fisher

Hello Bernard,

I'm curious if you have considered writing a novel about the exploits of King Edward I ("Longshanks")?

Ron Prouty

Hello Mr. Cornwell.

I remember reading a few months ago that you were developing a brand new series, contemplating the Elizabethan period. Ever since I haven't heard anything about this project anymore. Have you aborted the idea?

Congratulations for the fabulous work.

Wish you all the best

Jan Wohland

Mr. Cornwell,

Have you ever considered leading a tour of the sites in Portugal of the battles you depicted in the Sharpe series?  If not is there a guide of said sites you could recommend?  Thank you for writing wonderful and interesting historical novel that have entertained this 67 year old for many years.

Steven Noah

Mr. Cornwell,

When will you be releasing Uhtred's next novel in the United States?  Really looking forward to reading it as I have thoroughly enjoyed all the others.  Also, Waterloo is a wonderfully told story.  Excellent work!

Joshua Kershner

Have enjoyed Sharpe in Europe, but now must read India.  Have we seen the last of Sharpe & Harps?  Continue to wait for another Starbuck.  Afraid Thomas of Hookton period is too far back in time for my taste.  This request is too late, but please take it a bit easier on the Catholics.  You seem to miss entirely the good works of the church to focus on its scandals.  Thank you for some fine reading.

Charles Fletcher

 

just re-read Sharpe's Siege - I'm wondering if Sharpe and Cornelius Killick ever got together in Marblehead after the war? Maybe the subject for a short story?

Edith Munro

Hi, Mr. Cornwell,

I'm sorry for the bad english,

Where do your ideas for stories come from? Do you come up with them only when you're actually writing? Or it's supposed to arise in your mind anytime and anywhere in your daily life, when you're not writing? If that's the case, do you take notes?

I'm curious because once I saw someone asking you what happened to Derfel after the last events of Excalibur, and you responded by saying that the only way to know would be writing another book.

Thank you.

Eilton Ribeiro

Mr. Cornwell,

I thoroughly enjoyed Waterloo.  In particular, I found the maps at the beginning of each chapter to be most useful in understanding the topic of the chapter, good technique!  You write historical battles with as much vividness as your fictional battles.

Have you considered writing a history of the early Saxon period?  It would be a nice complement to the Warrior Chronicles, which I have also read.

Robert Lewis

Sir,

In The Empty Throne (p. 288) it states that timbers planted upside down last longer.

As a teacher of botanical science, could you let me know the reference point for this fact, or is it fiction?

regards,

John

Dear Bernard,

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about Uhtred, and learning about saxon England.  What a bloodthirsty and barbaric time it was!  But your story-telling is superb.  I have read all the books in order, and have just finished 'The Empty Throne'.  I'd like to know if that truly is the end - or just as far as you've got.  Will there be any more books in the series? Uhtred mentions more than once that he survives to become an old man.  So what happens to him, and to his son, to Finan, to Aethelflaed, and all the others?  I know I could Google the history, I could find out from the historians and the many books that have been written - but it's not the same as reading your books!  Anyway, if you haven't done so already, please write the next one!  And the one after that, and the one after that....  sorry!

Thank you so much, also, for all the pleasure you've given me through your writing.

With best wishes,

Rory