Your Questions

Hi Mr Cornwell Do you have any news as to when Sharpe's Peril will be available on DVD in Canada ? I'm really looking forward to the latest Sharpe movie! T Byrne

An avid fan of Sharpe and many other of your books, I have been patiently awaiting the availability of Sharpe's Peril in a US DVD version...any idea when it may be available here in the colonies?

Mike Gorman

Hello again Mr Cornwell. Once again many thanks for your books they have delighted and entertained me for many dark nights. I was wondering if you could help with the saying "Wyrd bið ful aræd" it is mentioned a lot throughout all of your books but I am not sure as to how to pronounce the old-English words. Are you able to give a phonemic? Many thanks Tom Haslett

Mr Cornwell: Please, can you tell me if will The Burning Land be the last Saxon book? Regards Pitt

Dear Mr Cornwell. I´m awaiting the fifth book of the Saxon Uhtred. I love your books and I have a few but Swedish bookshops do not often have your books. Apparently they don't sell too well so more marketing because your books are the best. The fifth book will it be realised in Sweden in October as well? I can´t wait till January! I dragged Sword Song so it wouldn't end. Thank you for great reading. Sincerely Carin Steiner. Sweden

Hallo, I just discovered your Saxon stories and I'm really enjoying them: not something many Irishmen would admit to! I studied Old English and Old Norse Literature at university, and needless to say, its not often such enjoyable novels as yours come along set in the time period and cultures that I find so interesting. At first I thought you had perhaps misunderstood how close the English and what they referred to as "the Danes" would have been at the time, both linguistically and culturally, but I've just read the bit in "The Pale horseman" with the Frisians in the marketplace baiting a Dane and I thought: You know, Cornwell has got it got it spot on. They looked like each other, their language was very similar, their cultural roots were identical, but they regarded each other as "hateful foreigners" (to quote an old English poem). Sounds a bit weird, but to someone like me who grew up in northern Ireland, its something i see everyday. Anyway: great work, keep it up please! I hope Uhtred's life and career is (was?) as long and glorious and Mr Sharpe's. One question: As "Britain's storyteller" (as your website says) one era you haven't touched on is the English Civil War. Any plans/interests if that conflict?

Tim Hodkinson

Have you ever thought of doing a book set around the 1060's to cover the Battle of Hastings? I keep searching for a story set in these times but no one seems to have written one.

Neil Cox

Hi Mr. Cornwell. I've had a recent idea I'd like to run by you, I think it's one of the best I've come up with in some time. More than once, you've expressed a desire to have Sharpe at the siege of San Sebastian in July - September 1813. As you know, at present, this is impossible because Sharpe was in England at the time chasing down the recruiting scam in Sharpe's Regiment. I remember you writing that you might have to re-do the chronology of Regiment to allow Sharpe to be at the siege. My idea is: rather than re-writing, leave Regiment as it is with Sharpe in England for that time period. Then write the story of the siege of San Sebastian and Soult's Pyrenees counterattack of 1813, but write it as a novel starring none other than William Frederickson! You made Sweet William a formidable soldier in his own right, don't you think he deserves at least one novel all to himself, out from under Sharpe's shadow? And this would be an opportunity to give some background information on him, like his birth, upbringing, early military career, etc. What do you think? Alan Kempner

Can you tell me were I might find Muster rolls for the battle at Bordeaux? I've looked on the internet but have found nothing. I'm looking for three Hylton brothers who died under the command of the Black Prince. They were son's of the Baron Hylton, I would like to know if they were Men-at-arms or if they were Knights.

Austin Helton

Mr Cornwell, Firstly I find your works to be fascinating. My Mum got me into reading Sharpe when I was 11, after I'd found a copy of "The Last Kingdom" at Midway Airport in Chicago. In my spare time I partake in historical reenactments, mostly of the 7th Missouri Irish Volunteers, USV, in the American Civil War. I am beginning to look into adding the Peninsular War into my area of reenactment. I was wondering if you would have any information on any famous Irish officers within Wellington's Army. Thanks for all the good work. ~S. Ó Catháin.

I am a new reader of yours and live in Atlanta GA. I am delighted to have discovered your work. I wonder if you know of the work of the late Nigel Tranter and wonder if so, might you share thoughts on his work you. Kind regards.

Ned Montag