Your Questions

Hello Bernard- Thank you so much for your excellent work! Since your interview with Hugh Hewitt last year, I have careened through your Saxon Stories, the Arthur Books as well as The Fort and Azincourt and I am now beginning your Archer's Tale. One thing that I have come to depend on are your maps and summary of characters. However, I am now migrating from your hard copies to a Kindle and I don't see the maps or characters listed in the electronic copy. Do you have this information posted anywhere else? Thanks again for everything! Larry

Hello. French reader of all your book translated in French, I ask your french editors about french translation and publication, but they never answer, except the editor of Sharpe's story. Could you please ask them , when we will have the pleasure to read, Burning Land, the Fort and the last one.... Thanks for your help. Arnaud Valeix

who would win in a fight, Hornblower or Sharpe ? I have the Sharpe box set dvd, and was disappointed to notice that Liz Hurley's breast exposure has been edited out, but was in my opinion the best performance ever by Pete Postlewhaite. happy days

Suffolk Pete

Dear Mr. Cornwell: I see a lot of speculation of who Sharps father was. The only character who fits time, place and social class to be with the quality of prostitute who was his mother was the orphanage master. Sharpe killed him in the Denmark book.

rgm

I had a question, somewhat hopefully asked. Have you thought about any books further exploring the life of Thomas of Hookton? I noticed his name mentioned in your Agincourt novel as an Archer of similar status to Robin Hood, among archers anyway. This seemed to imply thought of his story after the grail. I really enjoyed the character, so had to ask. Thanks for the time, and for your work.

Mr. Cornwell, I could not stop seeing the others questions, and I think read something about you have plans for a new story for Thomas Hookton? Sincerely pleased, Eurico.

Mr Cornwell I have read all Saxon books twice and awaiting the next one,. Will this be the last in the series?

Gary

Dear Mr. Cornwell I am writing to congratulate you because I have read many of your books (The Arthur Books, The Grail Quest and the first 2 books of the Saxon Tales) and I appreciated them very much. I am an avid reader of historical romances since I was a teenager and I found your books very accurate historically and very pleasant. Your battle scenes and reconstruction of eras long gone are very precise and colourful. But my favorite of course is Mr.Sharpe. I became hooked after reading almost by chance the first book of the series, Sharpe´s Tiger and one scene in the book captured my imagination. It is the scene when Sharpe killed the tiger in the courtyard of the prison before running away with his friends. The scene is very much like the scene in the movie The Gladiator (2000) but I read in the back of the book that you wrote Sharpe´s Tiger in 1996. Is that correct? I ask you because the method employed by Sharpe to kill the tiger is almost exactly the method that Maximus the Gladiator used in the movie, stabbing the tiger through his open mouth. I am certain that the original idea was yours but could you please confirm?

Another thing, when did Sharpe really first met General "Daddy" Hill? In one of your books, the one when he captures a seminary in Portugal, the officer that greets him is General Hill, if I am not mistaken, but in the next book you wrote that Sharpe had not met General Hill before. I am sure that I am making a mistake here, but I am trying to read the Sharpe´s series in chronological order, and I became confused with this. Excuse the long letter, and perhaps many other things you have explained in your final books of Sharpe, but I am still in his 12th( Sharpe´s Battle) and I have already bought all the collection because once I finish one I begin another one! Thanks for your time >From a Brazilian fan Deniza Futuro

Dear sir ,i recently read a reply to an e-mail where you said you were thinking about the jacobite rebellion . have you thought about the battle of glenshiel ?. When 300 spanish troops landed at the kyle of lochalsh , and joined by 1000 highlanders including Rob Roy Macgregor , set about starting a highland rebellion . They were met by a government force of about the same number . Consisting of infantry , dragoons and loyal highlanders , as well as four coehorn mortars . Many of the government troops were Hanoverians . The battle took place at glenshiel on the 10th june 1719 . The mortars turned the battle in favour of the government forces , and the highlanders dispersed leaving the spanish to surrender . Best wishes , Kevin .

Dear Mr Cornwell First of all i would like to compliment you on your books, especially the Saxon stories. I,m a really big reader and i must say that Uhtred is one of my favourite characters ( the other one is Jack Aubrey). What i would like to ask is if there is a chance the books will get translated in Dutch. Not that i cant read English, but its always easier reading in your native language. Also i would like to ask if you are ever going to write a book about the Roman occupation in England, that's a subject i really would like to read about. Thank you for your time. Kind regards from Holland Jeroen

Dear Mr. Cornwell: You are my favorite author and I have read your historical works several times each now. The Sharpe series on PBS was my introduction to you. The Sharpe series is my favorite and Some fiend has provoked me to madness and I have decided, poor me, to collect musketballs from all of the historical battles in which Sharpe participates. To this end I ask if you have decided which campaigns in Flanders Sharpe participated? In 1793-1794 he would be 17 and in 1799 he is in India.. Thanks and Blessed Be, James RR