Your Questions

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Hi Bernard I would like to know when you latest book in the Saxon Series will be available in Australia? I have been looking at the book stores everywhere but now see here that it is available in the UK and US. I can't wait to continue the adventure!! Best regards Helen....

Submitted December 30, 2010

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The Burning Land was published in Australia in hardback in 2009 and in paperback in 2010, so hopefully you shouldn't be having any problems getting it. It's available through Amazon and I would think could be ordered by most booksellers.

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Are there any plans to re-release your books in hardcover, maybe with nice enough bindings that my wife won't hide them in a closet?

Thanks for all your books. I've enjoyed every one, but especially the Arthur books. When I recently heard of a hoard of treasure being found in England, I thought of Derfel. Any more books following his life? Merry Christmas, Joe

Submitted December 30, 2010

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Sorry to hear your wife hides them in a closet!!! No plans right now.

No, I will not be adding to Derfel's story.

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I've just finished Stonehenge and really enjoyed it. I wondered if working in a such a far off period where there is so little established history gave you an added sense of freedom when writing, as with the Arthur trilogy? Do you have any plans to return to the long ago?

Tony Mills

Submitted December 30, 2010

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Sometimes it gives you that freedom - it certainly did with the Arthurian stories - but it was a bit confining with Stonehenge because there was really so little material to begin with and I found it more difficult than I'd expected.

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hello, I've just finished reading 'The Burning Land', and I was wondering if you had started writing the next book? and if you had any idea when it will be released? P.S. This series and the Arthurian series are some of my favourite books, thanks for writing them. Thanks and Regards, Calum Ryan

Please, when do we find out more about Uhtred? When will the next Saxon Story be available? Please don't leave us hanging for too long!

Karen Franks

I'm loving the Saxon Books and was wondering when the next one was coming out, read them twice over getting worn out
Gary Bond

Will you be finishing the "Saxon Stories" with Uhtred? If so, when will the next book be out? I read the first five in a month and really enjoyed them. I look forward to the next book in this installment. Thank you.

Adam

Submitted December 30, 2010

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I'm working on the next Saxon Tale now; if all goes well, we hope to see it published in autumn 2011.

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Hey Bernard Cornwell. I'm a huge fan of your books! :) In school I'm working on a project about the American Civil War and your book "Rebel". So my question is: What motivated you to write about the Civil War, and more specific, what motivated you to write "Rebel"? Merry Christmas, and thank you in advance! Best regards, Niels-Peter Gade Denmark

Submitted December 28, 2010

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I do like the South and I think what makes Starbuck interesting to me is the sense he knows that he's probably fighting for the 'wrong' side for the 'wrong' reasons, but it makes him happy anyway. That makes for a tension which, to me at least, is fascinating. I was also very influenced by a magnificent book 'The Children of Pride' which was published way back in the 1960's by Yale University Press, and is a collection (a VAST collection) of letters written within a slave-holding family in Georgia. The impression left on me was how decent and moral these people were, and yet, to our minds, how mistaken they were. That's a strain that has vanished from conventional history, which (in the north, at least) sees all the south as villainous Simon Legree's (and HE was a New Englander!). The war was a tragedy, yet it's also an epic story, much grander, even, than the Revolution.

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Dear Mr. Cornwell : First of all let me tell you who I am. I am quite sure that you will be surprised by the fact that you have a fan in distant lands. I am a Peruvian (PERU in South America) attorney who just loves your saxon books. I read "The Last Kingdom" about three years ago, and ever since I became instantly fascinated by Uhtred`s adventures and by the historical background in which they take place. I just finished reading "A Burning Land" and simply can`t wait to read the next book in the series. I am quite excited by the fact that according to the book`s last pages there are still more adventures of Uhtred to come. I do hope you keep writing about the viking invasions to the UK, and here is where my question fits in, how many more books related to the saxon tales do you think you will write? Regards and please DO NOT stop writing books for the sake of all your fans (like me). Gonzalo Ferrero

Hello Bernard I am a Italian boy, I am 13, I read "The Pale Horseman", "The Lords of the North" and "THE BURNING LAND", I aspect the book where Uhtred conquest Bebbanburg, how many books I Will have to read when that happens? Marco Romolo

Submitted December 28, 2010

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I wish I knew. Six? Eight? I don't know.

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Hello, I love your Saxon tales, have read them all I just have one suggestion crazy as it may be, because of lacking in written record but... why not write about the Viking expeditions too North America?

Robert Osteen

Submitted December 21, 2010

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Because there's really not a whole lot there . . . and that will bring the wrath of the gods down on my head, so I'll rephrase and say I don't find a whole lot there to intrigue me. But never say never . . . .

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Dear Mr. Cornwell, I have two leisurely pastimes I particularly relish. They are: 1. Reading Coffee Table books about military history and historical architecture 2. Reading the Sharpe Books (I loved the Arthur Books as well and have requested "Stonehenge" as a Christmas present from my bookstore employed Mother-in-Law) I have read many of the Sharpe books in Kindle format but I would love to see your Sharpe books in a coffee table format with drawings and pictures from the actual sites, maps of the areas involved, and battle maps. It would be great to see the three books from the India adventures encompassed in Volume 1. I think your fans would greatly appreciate another opportunity to show you how much they enjoy your work. Thank you for your consideration of this humble request and for all the pleasure I've experienced reading your transportive works. Sincerely, Thomas Shrake

Submitted December 21, 2010

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It's a nice idea - and one I shall suggest to my publisher . . . thank you

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I have just read Sharpe's Fury which was sent to me by my son who lives in Canada.I have lived in Spain now for about 6 years in the countryside about 10 minutes drive from Barossa, about the same from Chicana and some 20 minutes from Cadiz and from my front garden I can look across the valley to the white village of Medina Sidonia.So in fact the story has done a round journey and reading it made me feel right in the middle of it.My questions are when did you visit Spain to research the book?Also was the photo on the back cover taken on Barrosa beach? Thank you for your time reading this. I consider you a truly gifted story teller.Gary Jones

Submitted December 21, 2010

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I can't remember . . . it was the year before I wrote the book, which I don't have handy, so subtract one year from the copyright date . . .

No, it was taken on Cape Cod.

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Dear Bernard First please allow me to with you a merry christmas and happy new year. Second In regard to your Starbuck novels and Sharpe s son Patrick Lassan. I wondered if you had thought of giving him his own spin off novel about the French war in Mexico ? Are you aware ( if you are) and have you ever been tempted by the fight at Camerone 45 men against 2000 !

While in regards to Starbuck himself you have said the next book would be about Fredricksburg but as there is a gap between that fight and Chancellorsville would you ever consider getting Starbuck west to the battle of Stones River (as there would be enough time to get him there and back) its about time you sent Starbuck west in JMO??? Yours sincerely Geraint

P.S In terms of books for a winters read I can recommend two that might be worth your time. The Last Valley by Martin Windrow on Dien Bien Phu and Dan Snow's Death or Victory on Siege of Quebec.

Submitted December 21, 2010

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I'm not planning on a spin-off for Patrick Lassan.

I really do want to get him to Fredericksburg, but after that? I'll bear it in mind! But I need to get him up and running again first!

I've read 'The Last Valley', and you're right - and I'd also recommend Bernard Fall's great book on Dien Bien Phu! 'Hell in a very Small Space', which is also brilliant. I haven't read Dan Snow's book, but I will, thank you!