Your Questions

I totally am enjoying your Saxon Tales books, am currently reading The Burning Land.  I am fascinated by this time in history and have read many historical fiction novels about England and Wales.  I came across an article on line about the casting for the TV series, posted 11 months ago, but can not find any mention of when it will begin or which network will carry the series.  So, if you have a start date and network on which it will be carried, I would be most appreciative.  I am excited for the History Channel's Vikings to start again in January 2014...after seeing that series, I started looking for historical fiction books about Vikings and was delighted to find Saxon Tales.
Carol Garrow

Hi Bernard,

With success of Game of Thrones could Uhtred and Alfred be the next big series? Think it could have major success and think it would be awesome!! You have so much real history!! Could help interest in origins of England, UK etc!!

Hope it does happen, not since Sharpe has such a character really taken with me.

Also any chance the Nathaniel Starbuck series be made into a film/TV series?

Kind regards life long fan since I discovered Sharpe aged 10, circa 1990!

Steve Millar

Gidday Bernard,

just wondering if you watch and like the Vikings tv series,as it has Ragnar Lothbrok in it,who's descendants you have in some of your saxon novels.
Wayne

Are you going to write any more Starbuck Chronicles
Lloyd Hersh

 

When will the next Nathaniel Starbucks book come out.  You have left me wondering what happens in the rest of the war to Starbuck.
Thanks for writing such entertaining books
Roy Cavellini

 

Hello Mr Cornwell
Have been a big fan of Sharpe for a long time but would like to know if you will ever get around to written any more of the Starbuck  story
Peter Dunbar

Oho, Sir B! May we deduce from your 'He thinks he's English' answer about dear Richard that, when it's his turn again for the spotlight, we might in fact find out who his father (is? was?) Or is it soil best left unturned?

Thank you for all your stories. They have inspired me to care about time periods that I didn't suspect I would. I have had the happy privilege of introducing a number of new readers to your tales here at the library at which I work. May you write many, many more!
Patrick Provant

Would you consider writing an historical novel, The Peasants Revolt, 1381,
using Watt Tyler and John Ball as the main characters?
Thanks for all the enjoyable reads I have already had.

Stan Phelan

Dear Bernard

I have read a number of your books with great pleasure - the subject matter is always of great interest and your depictions are fascinating.

However, I have started to read 1356 - again fascinating - but I am being distracted by the constant use of 'and'.  I openly confess to being poorly schooled in the proper use of the English language but to me there seems to be excessive use of 'and' in this novel which I have never noticed previously.

Is this a new direction or simply me overlooking your writing style previously?

Kind regards

Shaun

Mr. Cornwell:
I have read nearly all of your books and have enjoyed them immensely.   You are wonderful at getting inside the minds of the combatants and explaining their strategy and tactics.   I especially like the Hookton and Uhtred stories.

Since so many of your books revolve about battles in which a small but plucky force defeats a much larger but usually badly led enemy, have you ever considered writing about the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741?  The defenders were outnumbered by at least 5 to 1, but were led by an admiral who out-disabled Nelson, because he had only one eye, one arm and one leg!   Unfortunately for your sympathies, the losing attackers were the Royal Navy, and they had to hide the victory medals which they had coined prematurely.   Still, it makes a great David vs. Goliath tale.

Your devoted fan,
Norman Brenner

Hi Mr Cornwell,
I've read most of your collection but I particularly like the Warrior Chronicles, especially when Uhtred was with his adoptive Viking family. Do you have any plans to write a back story about their exploits before they met up with Uhtred as I think this would make a great story.
Just half way through 1356 and it's not disappointing!
Many thanks

James

Bernard,
Have you ever come across the Charles Dickens short story entitled 'The Story of Richard Doubledick'? Despite the dubious name of the title character (no worse than Hornblower), it is an account that resonates of the Napoleonic period. India, Badajoz, Quatre Bras and Waterloo all feature among what is, at times, cloying sentimentality. But then Dickens was writing for an audience whose collective memory of that era was relatively immediate.
Even the title character, who rises through the ranks from drunken squaddie to officer, is a noble man. Sharpe would hate him, or at least curse him for his devotion to duty.
Have a look if you haven't read it.
Btw, I know you're fed up with people asking, but what about Nate Starbuck?
Thanks for hours of escapism,
Colm.