Your Questions

hi Bernard I'm a great fan and love all your work , are we ever going to learn what has happened to the girl that was taken at the start of the grail books, the one that Thomas had gotten pregnant....

Patrick

Hello Bernard Are you familiar with the written works of Julian Cope? His books The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic European offer great insights into the structures left behind by our ancient ancestors in Britain, Ireland and Europe. You can find links to his works at his website www.headheritage.com . Other than that - keep on keeping on. I really enjoyed The Arthur Books, but The Saxon Stories have surpassed them. Regards baz

Mr. Cornwell, Ever had any thoughts of using the time of Henry VIII as a setting for a book or series of books? Robb Mansfield Annapolis, MD USA

I just finished reading the Warlord series and want to let you know how much I enjoyed it. I have an interest in history, I regularly visit historical sites, do a fair bit of reading and take OU courses. I love the way you mix fiction with history. It really gets me interested in looking into more detail at a historical period or visit certain sites. I also love the way you change certain well-known characters, ambitious Guinevere, self-centered and self-serving Lancelot etc. In one of the books you mentioned that the Britons were able to communicate with the Irish as their languages were fairly similar. Is this true? I always assumed the Celtic language they spoke in that region was Brittonic which ultimately evolved in what is now Welsh, whereas Irish comes from the Gaelic variant. Were the languages similar in this time period?

Have you ever considered writing a book set in the Roman period btw? Regards, Justin

Dear Mr. Cornwell, This is probably a silly question but it's bothered me for a while. I am a big fan, like many, of the Arthur books (I read the whole series every year - and give sets of them away often.) My question is, what on Earth is the "sign against evil"? Crossing your fingers? What could it be? Chalk it up to the fact that I am a stupid American but I would be pleased to know the answer. Thanks for this and thanks for the Warlord Chronicles. Best regards and ever your devoted reader, Babs

ps: Currently I am reading The Saxon Stories. Love them. Maybe not as much as the Warlord Chronicles, but love them. pps: Just started a NEW crop of fans for the Arthur books. Purchased and gave away a new set just today.

Dear Bernard After reading your interview with George Martin that Sharpe's a hero so has to win couldn't resist asking what about Burgos! Wellington took a major beating there surely Sharpe (as it says in Enemy) would too.

And about the next period you might be working on but are reluctant to say in case someone steals the idea. Could you at least give a clue by saying what period it would be in ? Having a guess with the anniversary of Flodden coming up could it be that??

Finally I read that there is still uncertainty over where the decisive battle of Brunanburh is based but they think it might be near Bromborough on the Wirral will you ever get Uhtred to the Northwest and the Siege of Chester and battles there as you seem to just have him hanging around East Anglia and for a guy who wants his castle back he seems reluctant to travel past the Watford Gap which does make his job rather more difficult. Yours sincerely Geraint

Hello Mr. Cornwell, I am a huge fan of your work (especially the Sharpe books) and tell as many people as will listen that they need to read your books! I just started reading Death of Kings and I have a question for you. I am somewhat obsessed with chronologies and with placing historical events in their proper times (as far as this can be done). I notice that the novel starts on Saint Alnoth's day and that you say it is the winter of AD 898. You further state that it is a Sunday. I found out that Saint Alnoth's day was either February 27th or November 25th. I then found a calendar online for the year 898 (yes, that's how obsessed I am) and discovered that neither February 27th or November 25th fell on a Sunday in 898. I do not mean to be petty or over critical, but I am just a little confused and wondered if I missed something somewhere. Thank you! Joseph Firoozmand

Having received a Kindle for Christmas the first books I wanted were The Warlord Chronicles, it does say on this site, with a link to Amazon that it is now available, however I suspect there has been some kind of problem because it isn't available anywhere. If its on it's way and just held up then fair enough. I really do want to read these books again and would love an answer, Many Thanks Karl Stearn

Dear sir CORNWELL, Have you got any news about the french version of "the burning land"? Is there always a problem with the schedule? Sincerely, Mathieu.

Hi, French readers of your books, we'd like to know when your last three book "Burning Land, the fort and death of king" will be translated in french. No answer from your french editor. Thanks. Arnaud Valeix

I write as an avid reader of your books having discovered Sharpe when ill in bed one year, many moons ago. I have them all and enjoy many of your other works too. I've just read The Fort and wanted to say two things, other than yet again I enjoyed the book. I went to junior school in Lexington, Mass, when young and Dad was teaching at Harvard. Mother had an antique shop in Charles St Boston and I was known as the Boston Strangler back in Scottish school. Paul Revere was obviously a revered (scuse the pun)figure, dashing through the night on his horse, and was the subject of one of my first history lessons, I could never understand how nobody had heard of him in Scotland! .. your epilogue of The Fort has been the first to debunk the myth, and I sort of thank you for this! Secondly, I seem to remember from those days that Lovell is a county town in Mass and I wonder if the place was named after the General? Thanks again for all your books, I love 'em! Never seen a TV version as Sharpe exists in my head and imagination is a key part of storytelling, when told well no need for imagery. Rhod McEwan