Your Questions

I was just wondering if you have given any thought to the notion of your series being turned into movies. The books offer everything that epic moviegoers seek in a movie. And as we've seen in recent years, Epic Trilogies and Series have done very very well. Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Harry Potter, and Lion Witch and the Wardrobe.

You have a very large following and I am sure I am not the first to suggest this. I am sure if you made inquiries to a few movie studios you would get some very interested responses.

Thanks for your time

Matthew Hiles

Enjoyed 1356 as I do all your historical fiction.  They are not only well written, but also history lessons - appreciate all the research you and/or your team do. Eagerly awaiting your next book. Can you share what your next book will be?

Regards,
Ann Wong

 

Dear Mr. Cornwell....

.top of my list of all your books are the Saxon Stories and my favorite character is Uhtred....I have been anxiously awaiting the outcome of him getting back his home in Northumbria.....I think I have the name correct.....when do you anticipate that book finally coming out....I thought that was the book that was due fall of 2012.....thanking you in advance for your response...

.Dan Brennan

 

Dear Bernard
Thanks for some very good books. They are amazing and I really like to read them. The last one I read was "Death of kings".
I kindly ask you to let me know when you expect the next book in the series to be ready? And if you have the title also please?
I nearly can't wait to follow Uhtred and to see if he succeeds to get Bebbanburg back etc.

Thank you in advance.

Greetings from Dennark
Ib Norvin

Hello Bernard,

I will keep this short as I know you are a busy chap.

I was wondering if you would consider writing a novel based on the Border Reivers?
It is period that was anarchic, bloody, creating refugees, hardships and yet producing great ballads.
Political tensions in London finally concluded in the crushing of the marches both North and South of the border, townsfolk hung and hence emigration to Ireland and the Americas to avoid persecution.

A rich background! You are a master writer and could make this period live like no other.

McDonald "The Steel Bonnets" is a fair factual representation of the periods history...

Anyway, just a thought.

All the very best to you,

John

After finishing the grail quest series many years ago I was saddened as the Journey for Thomas of Hookton was over (at that point). When I discovered you had written another book I couldn't have been more pleased! I have just finished reading 1356 and it was fantastic, thankyou very much! do you have any plans to write more about him?  I have a 17 year old brother, who unlike myself has never really enjoyed a good book and is more in to his skateboard/video games. Last week however he sent me a message (I am working abroad from the UK at the moment) that he had picked up my copy of Harlequin and cannot put it down! So thankyou again for inspiring yet another new reader! Also, I am an avid reader of sharpe (who isn't?) and was wondering if you are planning on writing any more of those as well? and if so do you have a vague idea of when you shall? Thankyou for taking the time to read this, as always I look forward to getting lost in your next adventure!

Kind Regards,

Mike

I enjoy that your main characters are the forgotten people that mostly suffer the whims of kings.  My question is that when these archers and swordsmen follow where the next battle takes them and they encounter a 5 day weather front of rain, how did the soldier stay dry?  I'm assuming they traveled with just the clothes on their back and their weapon.  Believe it or not, since I went through a Cornwell phase a few years back, I wonder that question with every storm.

Dick Schweder

Dear Bernard,

Just finished 1356. Struck me as I was turning through the last notes and blank pages to the map at the end and your smiling face on the rear cover that it was a bit like the ending of a film. Films only last hours, my book was a present from my family on Christmas day that lasted till 4th Jan. One never sees who it is that has worked so hard to give you the pleasure in a film just names. Our archers at Blundellsands Archery Liverpool UK loved 1356. I wonder will you ever `bite the bullet' and give the world the book of the Killing fields worst battle ever seen on British soil ? Towton, Butchery on a Christian Palm Sunday 1461. Bernard, you have to do it ! No one else could get it right and its a story that must be told to all so folk these days understand.  I await Uhtred and the destruction of the Dubhlin vikings at the  Brunanburh, Wirral by all accounts. Godbless Bernard and Thank you so much for your work. Your books are kept for my children. So they know the
Truth.

Paul Campbell, Liverpool,

 

Happy new year Bernard, Have you any thoughts on a novel about the Battle of Towton, the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil ?

Ben

Dear Bernard
I have long been a keen reader of historical novels since my mid teens and am now turned sixty, I still have most of them, well over 200 now. My passions were fired by Charleton Heston and Kirk Douglas and by holidays in Wales and the Isle of Man. I am a self confessed medievalist into re-enactment and making the acoutrements of the Saxon and Norman times. Your books are probably the best I have read. I say probably for only one author comes close and he would be the late George Shipway.
He wrote Imperial Governor and Warrior in Bronze, and later Knight in Anarchy, about a young Norman Knight caught up in the service of Geoffrey de Mandeville, who was a pretty ruthless devil. This guy pales into the haze compared to the character that stars in the Paladin and the Wolf Time, Robert of Belesme makes Brad the impaler look like Sooty. I am getting carried away but what I am saying is that out of all the books I have read, on my desert Island I would have Three George Shipway books and a sack full of yours. I await a book about the Norman Conquest, does 1066 grab you like 1356?
Kind Regards
Geoff

Hi Mr. Cornwell,

I was talking to a friend about Artur's books, and we had a doubt. How can we pronunciate Ceinwyn's name? Derfel's is in the end of the first one, but we don't know about Ceinwyn's. It's nothing important, I know, but we are just curious.
Since now, I'm very thankful. And, just not to break the tradition, I really love your books. Never stop writing, please.
Leticia

Thank you for bringing Thomas back after a few years away with a story which was well worth the wait. You've hinted in answer to another question that you have no plans to bring him back again. While I hope he enjoys his retirement, I wondered if you had any plans to take Edward on to Najera and conclude his story? Looking forward to the next Uhtred in the autumn!
Tony Mills

 

Mr Cornwell,

I am thrilled with 1356. Do you foresee the story stretching as far as Najera, 1367?

Steve Schifani

Hello.
Any plans for a book or books about Robin Hood in the future.

Gareth Locke