Your Questions

Hello I was wondering if you had any plans for any new Sharpe novels or has it finished?. Looking forward to your answer and have been a big fan since it first appeared on TV and then got me reading the books. James Chapman

I have all your books apart from 2 of the Sharpe books I think,so I am a big fan. I admit some of them I didn't find as easy to read as others but they are all good books in their own way. Sharpe is still my hero I'm considering changing my name to Gary John Richard Sharpe Norman but my wife will kill me when i do lol. I just wanted to know if you planned to write anymore Sharpe books? I've just started reading the series from the beginning for the 3rd time. I don't know where or how you could continue the books, but please please please write a short story about Sharpe's youth up until he took Hakeswill shilling.

Gary Norman

I love all your Sharpe books so much so that I've read them all at least three times.I have been waiting patiently for another one [well maybe not so patiently]. Do you have any idea when another one will come out? A rough estimate will do. Until one comes out I think I'll try The Saxon Stories. I find it hard to find an author that keeps my interest.Any suggestions?

William Evans

Dear Mr. Cornwell, Thanks for your books -- great reads that I have frequently revisited so I could catch up with old friends (and enemies). I follow your activities on your website and have noticed questions and potential books in the offing for the Starbuck Chronicles and the Saxon Stories. Any thoughts on when we may see a new Sharpe adventure?
Ross Fleckenstein

Dear Bernard, Just a quick question: do you think you will ever write a book set in the 'American Old West'? Kind regards Gareth

Dear Bernard, A neighbor of mine is reading your Agincourt book. He was intrigued to see that on pg 230 of the paperback edition you included the same name as mine (Peter Dance) in an answer to a characters question about who's still alive after a battle. I'm curious -- I wonder if you recall what prompted you to select that name? Thanks! Peter Dance Los Angeles

Mr. Cornwell, first of all, I must say that that you are one amazing author, not only for your literary abilities (which, needless to say, are enormous), but for your willingness to interact with your readers, providing answers, advice, and a sympathetic ear. Amazing doesn't even begin to cover it... And now on to my question. I've recently been rereading your Sharpe series, then following each book with a rewatch of its corresponding dramatization, and that has brought to mind something I've been wondering about for quite a while, concerning the casting of your main original characters. It's been noted on numerous occasions that, while Sean Bean brings Richard Sharpe to life beautifully, physically he doesn't exactly match the description of Sharpe in the books, Bean being relatively fair as compared to the physical darkness of his literary counterpart. But what no one seems to have noticed is that Patrick Harper has undergone a similar transformation, the long sandy hair of the sergeant having evolved into the dark curly locks of Daragh O'Malley. You seem quite content with the changes that Bean's casting wrought in Sharpe; were you equally as happy with the casting of O'Malley as Harper? (For the record, I adore Sharpe and Harper in either of their manifestations, but the real perfect casting for me was Brian Cox as Michael Hogan; it broke my heart when Cox bailed out of the series!) Thank you so much for your generosity toward your fans and your wonderful writing. I look forward with great anticipation to the next time Sharpe and Harper march again, whenever that may be! Melissa Selby

dear sir,having read the Thomas of Hookton series I and several friends are now proud owners of english warbows!we practice regularly and have you to blame/thank in preserving this most english of occupations!! we would ask if you have any plans at all for another 1 or 2 books?
Danny Davies

Hello Bernard, I have been an avid reader of your books for a number of years now, ever since I borrowed my mother's copy of The Winter King, I was hooked. Your narrative and the way you describe the battle scenes keep me captivated and unable to put the book down, regardless of the late hour, until I have discovered the outcome of the skirmish, be it involving Uhtred, Derfel or Thomas of Hookton. It has always been an uncanny coincidence that you tend to write about the periods of history that fascinate me, and I was wondering if you had any thoughts about writing about Richard Neville 16th Earl of Warwick, also referred to as The Kingmaker, following the part he played in the War of the Roses. Or if not necessarily the man, perhaps the period? As you know the period that we know as Medieval was coming to an end during this period, with the end of the Plantagenet Dynasty approaching... I would love to read your adaptation of what was in effect the second Civil War in post conquest English History.

Dave Hickey

Greetings Bernard. I have just finished reading the Burning Land, the 4th book of the Saxon series. Apparently Uthred in your books are getting old and just telling about his exploits. What happened with Uthred in between? are you going to write another book so I can see if he has disposed of his terrible Uncle. Keep it up, I am an old Viking myself, being born in Denmark. all the best wishes, Karl

Will there be any more Saxon Stories books? If so how soon do you think it will be? Thank you.
Scott Tomlinson

Good Morning I am wondering when the next of the Saxon stories may be coming out. I hope Uhtred is not on vacation with Nathanial Starbuck I really got hooked on Starbuck and keep hoping he will be back. Tom Melnichok

Hi Bernard - Will you writing anymore Saxon Stories? After Sharpe, these are definitely the books that keep my attention and I can't put them down. Please tell me there is more to come? Regards Trevor

Hi, I would just like to know when the sixth book in the Saxon Chronicles series is coming out. Thanks. Joshua McCracken

Hello, I'm a big fan and thoroughly enjoy your books (especially the new Saxon series), I was wondering since your the Sharpe books based in India are so colourful and vivid and like all your books paint a lovely picture of the time and location, have you ever though of writing any other books based in similar regions?
David Courtneidge

Hello Mr Cornwell, I must tell you I have enjoyed all your Sharpe books. They are exciting stories as well historically accurate. I also have enjoyed reading your other novels. I realize you have a very large fan base and can not answer all the letters you receive, but I have some questions and hope you are interested enough to answer me. Your novels, "Sharpe's Rifle", "Sharpe's Eagle", and, "Sharpe's Gold", appear to be printed around 1981. Yet, in them you make reference to Sgt. Hakeswell, Capt Morris, the Tippoo Sultan of Mysor and that Sharpe saved the life of the future Duke of Wellington. These characters appear in "Sharpe's Tiger" which appears to have been published perhaps some sixteen years later. When you wrote those earlier stories, did you already have an outline or draft of the Sharpe's Tiger story just waiting to be fleshed out?

I can see it would be difficult to find any more battles to put Sharpe and Harper in, but have you ever considered putting their sons together in some future military adventure? Thanks, Ron Chennisi

Dear Bernard: Hope your acting is going well this summer. When you get around to doing the upclose research for the next Starbuck around Fredericksburg -- we'll have a pint (I live in NoVA), eh. Seriously, though, I have another guess about Sharpe's father. Is he perhaps from Babbenburg/Bamburg and an ancestor of yours? If I take "you" out of Uhtred - I get "thred" and but "me" in (me being "orough") I get "thoroughbred" and a horse appears! Looking forward to the FORT. As always, Scott