Your Questions

Hi Bernard,

I've just read The Empty Throne and really enjoyed it. However there is a question I would like to ask which you may well have been asked before.

How after Eadith has stabbed him with Ice-Spite is Uhtred able to draw Serpent-Breath and hit the ships hull (page 234) with it when he had left the sword on the boat and only took Wasp-Sting with him? Finan had earlier pulled him a sword from the pile of weapons taken by the Welsh in the fight (page 219).

Best wishes

Jim Cook

My wife's four times Grandfather was Richard Berry from Devon who joined the 44th Regiment of foot in 1797 and eventually became Quartermaster after fighting through the Peninsular wars as Richard Sharpe did, but instead of going north as the second battalion did he was sent to America to give give them a bloody nose and was Quartermaster when they burnt the White House down. He returned after their failures in the Southern states of America. After a break in Army life he joined the 75th and served in South Africa and India, where his wife died I have just obtained more family information from documents written by Sir Peter Leslie, a distant relative and it appears that Richard Berry and Richard Sharpe had many similarities.Both in the 44th, Went out of the Army to farming and then returned, had Irish friends, had a letter of commendation from Duke of Wellington, often busted to the ranks due to strong character, his agent went off with his money, fell out with his brother and had a foreign wife. He eventually died on New Years Eve 1853. His son George Frederick rose from ensign to Brigadier General, changing his name to de Berry on the way Is it all really a coincidence or were you aware of Richard Berry, I seem to remember you had a lieutenant Berry in one of your books?

Regards and thanks for the passion of Richard and the 44th

Geoff Copson

 

Never really been a big reader until I read the warrior books, now I can't get enough. Thank you. I'm working my way through English history by reading novels such as yours but I'm stuck after king Richard I. Can you recommend any please?

Steve.

 

Ok so here is my second attempt at Sharpe's father. not sure where the logic is behind this guess but here goes: Parson Brown?

Luke Fieldhouse

 

Jeeeez - who is writing all these books? - you could not possibly be.

Dai Francis

Hi

I'm reading "The Empty Throne" and I'm really enyjoying it like all of your other books but are all of these "AEthels" really necessary? Really. I've had to start diagramming the relationships in the back of the book.

Cordially,

Coady Delaney

I am now on my fourth reading of The Fort, every time I read it I gain more of an insight into the situation at that time. During the last reading the thought occurred to me that perhaps the real reason for the expedition was not simply to deny the harbour to the privateers but to entrap and destroy them. Why else would they have sent a small enough garrison of troops to establish the fort other than to encourage an expedition against them?  The establishment of the fort was perhaps the bait which the State of Massachusetts duly gobbled up.  Did you come across any evidence which would support such an hypothesis?

Very Best Regards.

Tony Brett...... eagerly awaiting my Xmas presents which will include  Throne without a King

I thought when you started the series that you had said it was going to be 8 parts but having read Empty Throne (the 8th) you are nowhere near getting Uhtred back to taking Babbenburg.......

 

Please tell me that you are going to be continuing the story

Carol Beels

Dear Mr Cornwell,

I've admired your writing for many years, and particularly appreciate the effort you make researching your novels.

I understand that you have visited battlefield sites all over the world and was wondering whether you have ever considered writing a walking guide to these battlefields?

 

Sincerely,

Madeline Williams

hello,

Paul McGann was the first Sharpe but broke a leg filming the first Sharpe. Sean Bean replaced him. Who was in your mind when you wrote the books/ discovered the books were to be filmed?

regards

Adrian.