Your Questions

Sir,
Where do you weigh in on King Richard III final resting place debate?  I have been doing my best to follow the debate and I find the arguments very intriguing.

I also wanted you to know that Nick Hook inspired me to get involved in war bows. Nick motivated me to join a war bow club, exercise,  and buy a war bow. Ive meet great people and I have had a blast. I am pulling better all the time and made friends all over the world. As a life long archer,  I never believed that I could pull a 100 pound bow. Thanks Nick.

Jim McElroy,

Pennsylvania.

Hello again Bernard,

I contacted you a while ago with a complaint of sorts regarding the use of coarse language in your books, the complaint being terms and use of wording you seem to use come across to me as comical. You replied saying that you had run my comment past your editor and that you both were confused and didnt understand what i mean, so i shall explain.

Warriors/Soldiers going back to who knows when have been hard men with sometimes brutal personalities, they swear and have sworn with the same words that are considered vulgar and coarse words today, effing this and effing that, using sh*t and most crude of all the "C" word. So why on earth would you write displays bravado with characters like Uhtred with lines like:

"I will gut your gutless guts"

This is just one of many, many comical lines that have come across in scenes with Uhtred confronting someone. I mean really.... really? I have read and throughly enjoyed all of Warrior Chronicles but the terse language horrifically bad i mean if you were fired up and ready to shed blood, literally screaming at the enemy would you really use language so sterotypically bad that it wouldn't go amiss in monty python?

As i have said before i have taken a ancient history degree and learnt much of everyday life or Greeks, Assyrians, Romans, "Anglo Saxon/Medieval" periods to know that language was as crude then as it is now.
Ben

Just finished "The pagan lord" and as with all you have written, just loved it! Can't wait to hear more of Uhtred in the future. A couple of questions though. There was an earlier question about minor characters in your books that I thought was really inspiring. They are easy to forget in the shadows of the giant men and women like Uhtred; Finnan, Alfred, Thomas, Ethelfled and Nickolas. One I really loved was the bee-keeper who supplied the beehives and mead for the storming of Benfleet. Another is the older Dane who guarded Knuts wife and children and was/let himself be killed for failing his duty. Another was Blackulf who got hijacked by Uthred & co trying to regan Bebanburg. What happened to him in your mind? Did he get his head chopped of by Uhtred#2 when Uhtred#1 left or did he refloat his dear Rainboger? Theoretical question of course but would be nice to hear what would have happened had you written it.
Looking forward to your next book sir!
Mattias Fornberg

Hello,
The book will be released in Portugal. There are dates? Thanks
Georges Nicolas

Hey, Bernard!
I have just found your website and would like to congratulate you on the sheer enjoyment I have had from reading your books.

I have read I believe all of the Sharpe's books, and enjoyed them even more on audio where I think you can imagine the scenes better if someone tells the story to you! (If I'm traveling far I will always have a story on rather than music).

I would also like to know when you will be finishing the Starbuck Chronicles as 'The war has to end!' We all know the confederates lose, but its how they lose and how the Southern States rebuild afterwards. What does Starbuck do after the war?

Anyway, I just thought I would like to say Hi

Kind Regards
Chris Busby

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

I would like to know, when will the Pagan Lord be published in german language?

Many thanks for a short response.

Best regards,

Thorsten Schnuettgen

I've read a few of your works, the Grail Quest series, the Arthur series, Stonehenge, one Sharpe book, and the Saxon/Warrior series. That last series nearly drove me mad as I never knew exactly how many books were in the series.  I started Death of Kings believing it would be the grand finale but at the end I knew there would be more to follow. Now I suspect it will be similar to the Sharpe series and run for quite awhile.  I don't mind at all and I'm looking forward to the US release of The Pagan Lord.
Do you do the book publisher tour when a new one comes out?  If so, I hope you make it to Austin, Texas.

Dennis Nobrega

Mr. Bernard Cornwell,
First I'd like to wish a belated Thanksgiving to you. Secondly, I'm re-reading Sharpe's Escape and Eagle, these past weeks, Sharpe's Eagle , which I sadly skipped parts in the past, is ingeniously captivating and full of detail, especially with Sharp'es rescue of the sullen discouraged South Essex from the French dragoons and artillery. May I ask if in the future a series of films following young Richard Sharpe is in the works, with Sharpe being played by a younger actor? However returning to Eagle  the best scene yet before the battle of Talavera, which I 've been too , was when Sir Henry Simmerson looks like a madman screaming  for cavalry and rides to the lumber yard  accompanied by General Rowland "Daddy"  Hill,  only to discover the South Essex on early parade in which Sharpe's Sergeant act saves the battalion from mutiny and severe floggings. Your truly a vivid storyteller, Gracias from Tucson AZ,

Best Regards,

Jorge Paez

What kind of pen you use to write Bernard? Do you prefer use computer typing or just write from a pen ? You are the master of medieval historical revival soul of european drama romance.
rafael

Dear Mr Cornwell,
Just wanted to say I am a huge fan of your works, in fact you are probably my favourite author. I have just finished reading the Saxon stories series from start to finish (for the 100th time) and about to read sharpe series for 1000th time. The pagan lord was absolutely enthralling, what I would like to know though, is this the end of Uhtred as we know him? What I mean by this is does his son, Uhtred, take over the narration of the books from now, or does Uhtred recover from his injuries and survive and be able to narrate in the future?
Thanks very much and I know you just get questions like this all the time
Iain

 

I am new to your books but I love them , I have read the Warrior series and I am now reading the Arthur series , is The Pagan Lord going to be the last of that series
Thank You Dave Buck

 

Dear Sir.  I enjoy your books so much, I've just finished The Pagan Lord and hope there is another chapter in the Uhtred story.  Can he please live to be 90???..
best wishes.   Clive.

 

Dear Bernard,
I literally just read the last page of the Pagan Lord.... Wow! Thank you for an excellent book! I thought Death of Kings and The Lords of the North (my personal favourites) could not be touched, but this book certainly hit the spot.
I will not write anything that might spoil the ending for those who haven’t read it yet, but there is no doubt about the possibility of at least one more Uhtred book or perhaps even more following the fate of his son(s)! Is there anything planned? Can you confirm that?
I am a bit of a sucker for lost dreams and thus cannot avoid comparing the history of Alfred the Great, who was never to see his dream of a Christian England come true but whose offspring continued that dream, with that of Uhtred and Bebbanburg! Perhaps it will be his son(s) who follow his dream? I was very touched by (and admittedly fearful for) Uhtred the son and your portrayal of him and his brother.
I will close by saying that I have often been grateful to an author for a book, and to one or two grateful for 2 or 3 or even 5 books. This is the first time I have been grateful for 7 books in a row. I wish I could start the 8th today.
Best regards,
Stephen Smith