Your Questions

Having read most if not all of the books regarding the subject I wanted to ask if you are in fits of laughter when you are writing?

Michael Molloy

hello mr. Cornwell...

I have sent comments to your blog page in the past and you were nice enough to respond quickly and I appreciate that... I just have a question about populations in Britain around the time of your Saxon stories, and also the Arthur books that maybe you could answer... I tried unsuccessfully to get  this question answered online, but there doesn't seem to be much information about it...I know that you did a lot of heavy research before writing your books to make the stories more believable...maybe you know about the populations of the Saxons and British kingdoms around the time of the Arthur trilogy... Also what are the populations of the various kingdoms in Viking Age England? Not just the Saxons, but the Welsh and Danes as well...and let's not forget Ireland! I know high king Brian had a hell of a time fighting off the Vikings in his day! Anything you could tell me about it I would very much enjoy... As always you are awesome and keep your books coming...

Jorge Irwin

Mays Landing, NJ

 

just reading empty throne i love the storys of uhtred of babbemburgany thanks will there be a sequel to the gallows thief? I loved the characters and plo tand the ending just begs another story. I will be the first in line to buy it if you see fit to write another thank you for hours of enjoyable reading

Rory Dent

 

Mr Cornwell,

I am currently undertaking an investigation into the causes of the French defeat at Waterloo for my A-level history. From my research, including your book, it has become apparent that the mistakes of French marshals, such as Ney and Grouchy, were an important factor. Do you feel that Napoleon is at fault for appointing them, as opposed to alternatives such as Soult, or were they viable commanders who's individual mistakes were not respective of their abilities.

 

Thank you,

Tom Walsh

I was in a discussion with an individual who had just taken a Roman Catholic Church History class. They stated the Church never harmed anyone because of the Inquisition. The Church merely turned the heretics over to the civil government who did the deed.

Was that statement correct?

I feel that no matter what the Church was responsible for a terrible time in history.

I felt that spin on the story is like saying Hitler is not responsible for the holocaust because he did not personally put the gas into the execution chamber at Aushwitz.

Ed Zingone

IMDB reports that Michael Mann is developing Agincourt.  How is this progressing?  Are you involved?

Colton M

dear Mr. Cornwell,

Having read most if not all Sharpe books I must say I enjoyed them very much.

I own a first edition copy of Sharpe´s Waterloo which is well read. And although i think your portrayal of the Dutch/belgian army in this book is not quit historical (to put it mildly) it´s still a good read.

Now with the bicentennery of the battle coming up I was wondering if you plan to visit it.

As I am a member of a re-enactment group portraying the 7th belgian line regiment, I will be there too.

Maybe you could visit our camp site (next to Hougomont farm), you will be most welcome.

Hope to see you there,

kind regards, René Snoek (fuselier 7th belgium line batallion 1815)

Hello Bernard,

it's a pleasure to be able to talk to you directly by your website. I think it is really nice of you to keep in touch with your fans.

I've just read the pagan lord (empty throne is not available in Brazil yet) and i have to congratulate you for that fantastic series.

I find it amazing how well you describe the war scenes with such details that it feels like we are there. By far my favorite scenes in the books are the parts where uhtred use military strategy to defeat his enemys, even on unimaginable conditions. I really got interested on the subject, and i am looking for other books that follow kind of theme. Can you recommend some?

I also laughed a lot at the criticism to christianity. It is funny compare how it was back then and how it is today, about how the church works and how it got such power of brainwashing people. It is a shame that so many histories had been badly documented by the church, and because of that today we have scarce sources of information. But hey, that is good to create a good fiction along with historic events!

I always had curiosity about norse mythology but after reading your books i really got interested on knowing more about that subject. Can you recommend some sources about that old belief?

Thank you for your time reading my message and i hope you keep with that energy for the saxon stories and keep giving us amazing books to be enjoyed!

Cristian Llorente

The English Civil War:  Well you've done just about everything else!!  You are in such great company with the likes of Dudley Pope and .. well too many to list here, who write such exciting and informative books.  Thanks you you and your fellow historical novel writers, learning about our history is ssooo much fun.  But this period is a little under written.  We need a few heros and heroines from this period with the BC magic touch.  As a proportion of the population, more young men died than in WW1.  This was big for Britain and ended up, albeit by accident, with the "Mother of Parliaments".  Yes, we can read the history books, but you make it such fun to learn......  A sort of Napoleon, warts and all, in a helmet meets Sharpe in a floppy hat with a feather in it.  Any chance of you knocking out a dozen books or so on this era?  Your fans ate waiting.

So Many thanks for all the fun and education so far.

Andrew L.

Newbury, UK.  (Site of two battles in the English Civil War.)

Hi,

I just wanted to write to you and tell you that I've loved 'The Warrior Chronicles'. I'm just about to buy 'The Burning Land'. Admittedly I had never heard of your books before last year, but I saw 'The Last Kingdom' in a shop whilst on holiday and decided to give it a go. Once I picked it up, I really couldn't put it down. I was very into the story and the characters are brilliant. So thank you, basically. You're a brilliant writer and I look forward to reading your books for some time to come. I hope my own attempts to write can get as much of a following as yours. As a quick question, I don't know if it's ever happened to you but sometimes, I look at what I write and I hate what I've put on the page because it doesn't feel genuine. Has this ever happened to you and if so, how do you overcome it?

Many thanks,

Mark