Your Questions

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Could you please tell me if you are ever going to do write another book on Starbuck I really enjoyed the book on the American civil war and I have just come back from a trip to Gettysburg so please could you carry these chronicles on

Mr. Roy Hobson

Could you please tell me if you are going to write anymore Starbuck chronicles.

James Swift

Submitted September 30, 2009

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Yes, I do hope to get back to Starbuck.

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Hi, being naturally extremely excited about the new Uhtred book, I've just listened to the unabridged audiobooks of the first two as a quick re-cap and was wondering when the third and fourth will be released in the same format? Elsewhere in the questions section you seem to suggest that they should already be available in this format, but I can't find them on Amazon.co.uk or Audible.co.uk (which has the other two). Am I missing something? PS: I think Tom Sellwood is a great narrator for them. Cheers.

Ed Prior

Submitted September 30, 2009

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Both The Lords of the North and Sword Song are available unabridged through BBCaudiobooks (Chivers). I don't know if you can get them from Amazon, but maybe from the BBC website?

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good afternoon Mr Cornwell my English is not very good. I would like to preview the Burning lLnd in Brasil, what month to preview it? ok thanks

Patrick Almeida

Submitted September 30, 2009

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I believe The Burning Land will be available in Brazil in June 2010.

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Hi, I love your books ( I love Thomas ), and I couldn't take a photo with you when you came to Brazil. Will come again soon?
Heitor Zaghetto

Submitted September 30, 2009

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I'd love to come back! It might not be soon....but hopefully some day!

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Hallo Mr. Cornwell, I'm waiting for a translation of "the Starbuck Chronicles" in Germany. best regards, Michael

Submitted September 30, 2009

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I haven't heard of any plans to publish Starbuck in German translation - sorry!,

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None of my business, of course, but - that cannon I notice on your video interview, the one pointing out to sea - is there a good story behind it? Regards, thanks

Bruce Allen

Submitted September 26, 2009

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The cannon was in the garden of the house when we bought it, and the previous owner, who was moving to Arizona, didn't want to pay the costs of moving it, so I bought the gun from him. It's a British gun (has the royal cipher on the breech) and spent the best part of 150 years at the bottom of Providence Harbor, but how it got there no one knows. It's a pop-gun as cannons go, so my suspicion is that it came from a merchant ship, but I have no evidence for that. These days, of course, it's an integral part of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Dear Mr.Cornwell, I am a huge fan of your work and have read the majority of your books including the entire Sharpe series. I am currently enjoying Azincourt which is up the to the usual excellent standard. I have noticed that the battle of Shrewsbury is briefly mentioned and as I am from Shropshire and only 16 miles from Shrewsbury myself I wondered are there any plans to write about said battle. Granted it wasn't a seismic event like say Azincourt or Hastings but it was a huge battle in its own right. It included England's more colourful historic characters , it was the first time English archers faced each other and even the greatest writer of all (second to you of course) wrote of it in Henry IV part one. It sure would be a thrill to read about the battle of Shrewsbury under your own writing and if possible may I suggest the title of 'Harka' , not only a good name for a book but it was the battle cry to win and even Shrewsbury town football club fans use it to this day. Thanks for listening. best wishes, Clive

Submitted September 25, 2009

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Thanks for the suggestion! I will think about it . . . right now I've no plans to tell that story, but you're right about the battle and so I promise to do some reading!

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Dear Mr Cornwell first, allow me to say that you Arthur books are great and the Saxon stories even better. I'm a big fan. but there is one question i would like to ask, so here goes. In the Saxon stories it seems that none of the Danes can read. but Saxo who made the Gesta Danorum notes that when he visits the country. A great deal of the population could read. even among the lower class. this is from the 1200 century. later then your books. but still. Thanks you for some great books.

Marc L. Christensen

Submitted September 25, 2009

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I don't think I ever claim that the Danes couldn't read. I'm sure some could, but the ones that Uhtred meets tend to have more important things to do. I'm also fairly sure that widespread literacy only occurred after the conversion to Christianity.

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Mr Cornwell, I have been a great fan of all of your books from a very young age. I am at present an archeology and Classics student at University Collage Dublin. One of the courses I am studying is Combat Archeology and our assignment is to pick a weapon of choice to do an in depth study on. This gives me the opportunity to work on a topic of much interest to me, the English longbow. Do you have any suggestions on good research texts on the subject from your Grail series or your book Agincourt, both of which I really enjoyed. Many thanks Breffni O'Rourke

Submitted September 25, 2009

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I'm certain your professors will know of all sorts of good sources, but I think the obvious place to start is the (massive) bibliography in Warbow by Matthew Strickland and Robert Hardy (Sutton Publishing, 2005). And I'd recommend contacting both men - I'm sorry I don't have addresses, but a letter care of the publisher should suffice. Robert Hardy, of course, is most famous as an actor (recently the Minister for Magic in Harry Potter), but he's forgotten more about the longbow than most academics learn in a lifetime.

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Good day Bernard, Some time ago you placed a note on your site indicating that, following some extremely rude behaviour towards bookshop hosts here in the UK, you were implementing a rule whereby you would only sign 3 x books per person at your book signing events, one of which was to be the book currently being promoted. Is this still the case? I do incidentally support the original statement having been present at Toppings of Bath last year when booksellers with bag upon bag of books were quite aggressive.. I'm hoping to be at your event at Bovington though I also wondered if you will be anywhere else on this UK visit? I've just finished the last of the Starbuck quartet for the second time by the way...I really must add my voice to the many calling for a finale to this outstanding series!

Kevan Timms

Submitted September 25, 2009

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I think it most likely to still be true. I am happy to sign more if time allows, but it's always best to check first as different rules may apply at different venues. Take a look at the Diary page of this website for a complete listing of events for the visit.