Your Questions

Saxon Stories ; Very good. Two points 1/ You seem a bit hard on priests. The balance of baddies to goodies in this category seems heavily weighted. 2/ I am puzzled by the map for Cumbraland in 'The Lords of the North' I know that Northumbria had large swathes of southern Scotland but Cumbraland is well into Dumfries & Galloway. I have tried to find maps hinting at this but without success.

Paul Duddy

hi, I was wondering if you had any plans to write any stories about when the Romans were in Britain? as I really enjoy your other novels and the roman period interests me more than most, would this be a possibility?
Peter Wilkinson

Hello sir, I'm I read 'The Last Kingdom' when I was about 13 because I was always a nut for Vikings and I've enjoyed a lot of your books since then. You mostly right about British history, so I was wondering; have you ever thought of writing a book about Roman-Britain? The Arthur Books were set in a Britain still under Roman influence, but what about a book set during the time of the great Caesars? Willem Peglau

Mr. Cornwell, I really enjoy the novels I've read of yours, especially the Uhtred books and the Arthur books. And although you've done a lot of Dark Age and Medieval Age books, and you feel it may become an epithet of yours, I think a book about Harold Godwinson, which goes through his Welsh campaigns of 1063 to Hastings, would be really cool. Luke Peglau

Dear Bernard I have read every book you have written and can never wait for the next to appear. I would however like to catch up with Nate Starbuck again when you bring him back, Please. Just waiting for my copy of The Fort.. JC

Hi Bernard, I've just finished reading the four Starbuck chronicle books, they were great, but in the historical note in 'The Bloody Ground' you said that another book would be coming, i had a look in the front of the book and noticed you wrote it in 1996, I'd just like to know when you plan to write the next book that you promised 14 years ago.

James

Like all of the others who have contacted you, I have thoroughly enjoyed your books-the ones I have read so far-and look forward to reading more. I am wondering if you have plans to continue the Starbuck series soon. I really want to know what will happen to Nate! As you had Potter quote, "The winners get to write the history books." Since I am a Northerner, with the exception of Gone With the Wind and the movie Gettysburg, I so rarely get "the other side". I really enjoy getting a more full perspective of this terrible time in US History. I love your ability to make your characters so alive. I want to know if Nate, Swynward and Truslow make it, and if nasty Blythe finally "gets his".

Heather Brew

I would just like to say how much I have enjoyed the Saxon Stories. Its good to read books which have so much historical fact entwined within the story. Having lived for much of my life in Maldon, the areas you write about around Hadleigh Castle and Benfleet are very well known to me. Is there to be a further instalment in the life of Uhtred very soon? Will he ever get to rule at Bebbenburg? I am sure all your fans like me are waiting to read how and where he spends his old age! Thanks so much.

Veronica

Mr Cornwell, My family, Friends and I are great fans of yours and we have consumed 'The Saxon Stories' series of your books and let me thank you for writing something that has inspired me to try my hand at writing. I am however interested in the journey of 'Uhtred' and was wondering if you have started writing the book as of yet and if our poor hero is ever going to get 'Bebbanburg'? Once again thank you for the books and creating such a fantastic story, any information would be greatly appreciated to us all. Guy Etchells (UK)

When will Uhtred get back his kingdom, I wait in anticipation after reading Burning land
Roger Isles

Mr. Cornwell, I have contacted you once before, and would like to thank you for responding in such a timely fashion. It is appreciated greatly.And thus, I feel required to bother you once more, my apologies. When can I expect to read another book about Uhtred? I am an avid reader of you Saxon series. I would be an excellent manuscript reader, although sadly I am sure you are not in need of anymore. I am impatient please forgive me.
Richard Skibitski

Mr. Cornwell, it is a big pleasure to me to right to you and expect to have your feed back. This is just to say I have already read all five books of Saxon Stories and never read nothing so profound before! I have learned a lot of british history reading and making several research after reading your books. So, please don´t take too much time to right next one and please give me some idea of when I can expect it. Thanks in advance.

Luiz Carlos Sbragia de Souza

Hello, Bernard, after finally completing your Sharpe books which was enjoyable I have found something that interested me. You say that the British Army were a group of criminals generally, so if that was the case did they murder each other? And did the British Officers really get fragged on the battle field? How did the British Officers treat the rankings? I understand that senior NCOs were generally respected despite being lower class?

Final thing after Sharpe's Siege, I noticed Colonel Elphinstone on how you portrayed him as somebody Sharpe respected and trusted. I take it he was a good colonel but the worst general ever? The afghan retreat comes to mind where his all army got massacred... Perhaps you could do a novel on it? Would be very intriguing coming from you, twisting facts with fiction and stuff... Perhaps an old Sharpe character can be a main character, such as Weller? Sorry for the bombardment with questions but its very interesting to me, and I can't find much information on how the British Army treat each other on the internet!

Michael

Exactly what is a best man in a British rifle squad of that time period?
Richard Gerhardt

Hi Mr Cornwell I was wondering if you have read any of Simon Scarrow's Wellington-Napoleon books? Aside from being fantastic reads, the last in the series 'The Fields of Death' features a brief scene with our favourite Rifleman...: ''...when a major of the 95th came panting up the slope clutching a leather satchel. Unusually for an officer, the major carried a rifle like his men, and he nodded a salute as he handed the satchel to Alten. 'Here, sir. We found this on the body of a French colonel.' 'What is it, Richard?' Alten asked...'' I loved this and later, while looking at Mr Scarrow's website, the Sharpe appearance was mentioned. He said that he was glad it had been spotted, and added "We (historical novelists) all owe Bernard a huge debt in helping to popularise the genre so that it is as successful as it is today." High praise and highly justified! I know you yourself are a fan of his work - was this something he asked about, or did Sharpe just decide to go and show up in somebody else's book?!

Daniel Price

Dear Mr Cornwell, Have you ever thought about writing a book on a darker, immoral more ruthless anti-hero? Despite being killers, and in some cases murderers, most of your characters have morals and are reasonably virtuous. I think it would be interesting to see a book based on a young Obadiah Hakeswill and his terrifying and bullying rise through the ranks culminating in him recruiting a 16 year old Sharpe and them fighting at the Battle of Boxtel. This would make Sharpe a secondary character in someone else's story and it would be away for you to go back in time within the Sharpe stories and all us avid readers would see how so much animosity came to exist between Hakeswill and Sharpe. As a character we all love to hate it would be a strange emotion to read about this but ultimately we know that Hakeswill does get his comeuppance. Hope my thoughts on this are okay. Cannot wait for your new novel. Kind Regards Tom Haslett

Just like every other person that finds themselves on this website, I adore all the Cornwell books that I have read and intend to read no other author until I have read all your work. Your writing style and dynamics are second to none; in my opinion. This is why I would love to read just one novel or a series based around the transition of Pictland into Alba. I have considered on attempting such a project myself but I believe you would excel in writing such a story with this backdrop. Especially with how well the Arthurian trilogy was put together, which was set only a few hundred years prior to change of Pictland. Anyway before I ramble on I just wanted to plant a seed, a thread of conceptual thought that I hope will grow into a phenomenal story encompassing a turbulent time in one of, if not the most hostile but beautiful countries filled with a fierce and warlike people who also have a great passion for love and honour.
Jonathan McElligott