Hi Mr Cornwell I would just like to ask if it is likely that films will ever be made of the Arthur books. I await news. Thankyou Zoe
Hi Zoe. I don't think it's likely as I suspect it would prove too expensive.
I started to read "The Fort" and found that either you or your publisher made a General Eisenhower type blunder. I looked at your map of Penobscot, Maine and noticed that something did not look quite right. Townsend is not Bucks Harbor, which is near Machias, rather it is Boothbay Harbor. The Am. Rev. War is a subject of interest to me as is Polish history. Stuff like this drives me crazy. Just thought you might want to know, if not already bombarded about the booboo. Also, you might have mentioned that Majabigwaduce was a corruption of the indian name Abaduset or Abagaduset. I noticed that you mentioned requests for vetting manuscripts. I can attest to the difficulty of accomplishing such a task. I've gone to the National Park Service, American Antiquarian Society, Clark University, and Anna Maria College for my own book on the siege of Boston only to find myself alone at night in the rain without an umbrella. Anyway, I hope you can correct the mistake on the next printing. Very respectfully yours, Donald Kaminski
You're absolutely right about Boothbay Harbor, and I have no idea how that error crept in (carelessness, I suppose). As for the Abaduset - well, that one I hadn't heard and none of my (unbelievably extensive) research threw it up, so I'll reserve judgment on that! Thanks - we'll get it corrected.
Hi Mr. Cornwell, I love your books. I am a big fan of the Sharpe series. I have seen the TV series and read the books. Are you going to write another Sharpe book where he goes and sees his fully grown daughter and they reunite? I would hope so and would love to know that.I want to go to Europe and go to the battlefields that Sharpe fought on. I also want to see the place where Napoleon got exiled.I'm a big history person so to me that would be a big achievement for me. My dad and brother are big fans of yours too. My dad has read all your books and my brother likes the series King Alfred and King Arthur. I hope you get this and write back. Rachel Platek
It's possible Sharpe may see his daughter again some day. I hope you get to take that trip!
Will you be finishing the Starbuck Series?
Sonny Crowley
Hope so!
Hello! Thanks soooooo much for being the best writer ever! I traveled around India with some friends this month and took the Alfred series with me and read them all! Which brings be to my question: please please please tell me the next Alfred book will be published soon? I don't think I can wait! P.s. I made a Bernard Cornwell fan of my best friend Kirsty by lending her the books! Super thanks! Sheena :0)
My wife and I have just finished the Burning Land, the last of the Saxon Series, at the end of the book in the section The Making of England, it states that Uhtred inherits, loses and recaptures his ancestral stronghold, if that is a strong hint that there is another in the series coming out, when is it due, even better what will be the title so that we can order it, many thanks for a very enjoyable series. Carey Lye.
Dear Bernard Cornwell, I really love the Saxon Series and of course I already read Burning Land. Which brings me to my question: When can I expect the next book? Uhtred has still work to do... ;-) I couldn't find a hint on your publisher's site or right here. I may have overseen it, please forgive me If so. All the best, Valentina
hello I'm Konstantinos from Corfu,i like lots of your books The Saxon stories in particular and other as well..i would like to ask u about the next book after the burning land is it due to come?cant wait u see :)..well keep up the good work and thank u for the entertainment..take care, Konstantinos
Hey, I have a question. When are you coming out with a new book the Saxon Stories? I have been waiting forever! UGH!!!! I know how long it takes to write a book so sorry to rush you but I wanna read it!!!!!!!!!!!! :( I have read that series over and over again, I think i could quote them from memory!
Alycia Sikes
Hello Bernard, Am an avid fan of your books and knowledge of ancient Britain, really enjoying the saxon stories on that note can you please please give us any indication when the next book in the set will be released. Thank you for many hours of amazing reading. Jen
When are you planning on writing the next book in the saxon series following The burning land? Adam Calhoon
Love your books and style of writing. Unfortunately you got me hooked on the Saxon Series and then published The Fort! I liked it however, when is the next Saxon book coming out? Thanks Floyd Wickie
Hello, I have just finished all of the Saxon series and have thoroughly enjoyed them. At the end of The Burning Land it implies that there are more books to come. Will there be more? Also, do you have an official Facebook fan page that we can become fans of? Thank you, Sherrie Ferguson
I'm working on the next book of the Saxon stories now, but it's a bit too early for a title.
Yes! You should be able to find me on Facebook!
Dear Mr. Conwell: I’ve been an avid reader and question writer for you for many years.. I am also a fellow writer/ poet and as of late an aspiring historical novelist (You might recall a few of emails in which I mentioned I was writing a novel of Irish in the American Civil War. Now after many years of characters bouncing round in my head I have a clear plot and deadline I’d hope to have the bones of a story in; so I am just running with it!) You once told me and many others that a good piece of historical fiction should have a big story (the civil war etc) as a backstory and a little story that shows what happened to people caught up in those larger events. My question is: do like to put things from the larger context into the little story? For example as I read countless primary and secondary sources I often find what happened a nameless Captain or here or a Sargent over there is far more dramatic and far more hair-raising then anything I can contrive. I guess my question in essence is this: have you ever let history shape Sharpe rather than Sharpe, Sharpe shape history?
My second question is: do you ever feel you’ve made a character too much of a hero? For example I got done looking over Sharpe’s Company much like you did with Hornblower and I remember the scene where Harper tosses him over the wall and he fends off French bayonets with his sword and they back away because he is such a wild beast. While this is going I kept wondering: why doesn’t someone just put a ball in his head? Now I feel I’ve angered Sharpe and will be getting a late night visit! O,o
Lastly this is more of personal question but after reading The Fort I just had to ask. How do you feel about Independence Day? I know been a part of American life for a few decades now, but while it signaled the beginning of the United Sates, it was also one could say, the beginning on the end of the Greatness of Britain (But I shant enter that debate!) Thanks so much for all the years of entertainment and advice, Adam Azzalino PS: I saw on a youtube video that had you taking about AGINCOURT and someone had commented below, Cant wait to watch the movie version of this book. Please tell me they were not just getting my hopes up!
Well history has surely shaped Sharpe . . . like so many others he fought through a world war that lasted over twenty years and that experience was as horrific as it was enthralling. Did he shape history? No, that's not his job. History is immutable and though I can give him moments when he appears to change history (such as killing the Tippoo Sultan) it's only because 'real' history has left a mystery as to who really performed that deed. the big story is history itself, and including it is what separates historical fiction from fantasy!
I often wonder the same. Mind you, they tried often enough. Sharpe has your address.
I love it! We have a great parade, the food is terrific, and the sun (almost) always shines. In fact it did not signal the end of Britain's 'greatness', but rather the beginning! The country that suffered worst from the war of American Independence was France. Her involvement was not altruistic, but rather a continuance (and a desire for revenge for) the Seven Years War, and they only entered the American side on pledges of American support for the recapture of the West Indies and Canada (they're still waiting). France was bankrupted by the war, and that bankruptcy led directly to their revolution, Napoleon, and all the attendant horrors. Britain, bereft of the thirteen colonies, goes on to create a much larger and richer empire, and the 19th Century, whichever way you look at it, was dominated by Britain. besides, July 4th was the date the French surrendered Paris to Wellington after Waterloo - no wonder I celebrate it!
Please look into one of the great mysteries of the middle ages. What did King John of England [ 1199-1216] do to the children 0f his brother Geoffery.
Phil Painter
Maybe, one day, no promises!
I am delighted with your Arthurian Warlord trilogy so much so I bought a set for father who is presently engrossed in them. I was reading the questions that had been previous asked and you had mentioned you wish you could have written more than the three.... I have a suggestion how about a set in the same era tackling the saga of Northern Britain (Hen Ogledd) example the reigns of Uriens of Rheged, and Rhydderch Hael of Ystradclud (Strathclyde) and the war in the north against the Anglo-Saxon/Scots and Picts.
Vaughan Wilson
Well, it's a long shot - a maybe - certainly not in the next few years - I have too much to finish!
Greetings mister Cornwell, I read all "The Saxon Stories" and I can't wait to read your next book. And, as you know, there is a lot of rivalry between germanic people, and, as a visigothic man myself, I wonder about the possibility of reading the "The Visigothic Stories" in the future. We are (were) as brave as the Saxons, our history is very rich, Alaric's troops entered Rome through the Salarian Gate, to plunder its riches in the sack of Rome, than we also became the dominant power in the Iberian Peninsula, quickly crushing the Alans and forcing the Vandals into north Africa. We also won the battle against the Suevi in north Spain. Than the visigoths fought against the muslim conquest of Hispania. I'm sure that me and many others fans of your books would appreciate to read the possible brand-new success of yours: "The Visigothic Stories"... maybe in the future it can be possible and It's my dream... Who knows? Best regards
Hans
Well, it's a VERY long shot - I really have too many other books to write (and series to finish), so though I hate to disappoint you I really don't think I'm the person to write these tales. It's an opportunity for someone else!
Is there any possible chances of films being made of 'The Grail Quest' series, I am a keen reader and love the Sharpe films, I recently read Azincourt and have since discovered the Grail Quest (as my dad is also a huge fan of yours and read them a while ago so informed me that as I enjoyed Azincourt I would enjoy them even more) I have already finished Harlequin and am half way through Vagabond. I cannot help thinking how great a film series they would make, in my opinion even having the potential to be better than the Sharpe films.
Daniel Sutton
I guess anything's possible...but I'm not aware of any plans for it.