Your Questions

I notice one of your readers says that he has looked at the Agincourt muster rolls online, I have been looking for them with no luck. Do you know where to look or if the reader sees this I hope he can let me know, my wife is into genealogy and you never know unless you look. Thank you. Peter Brown

Mr. Cornwell, I am on my 19 Sharpe book (revenge), and as always a pleasure. I was reading about Sharpe's explosive reaction after Wigram produces the piece of evidence against him in the form of Jane's withdrawal of the 18,000 pounds. It occurred to me that this argument could have been negated by requesting the records from Hopkinson and Son , showing the deposit of the sum was some 6 month before the Teste de Buch siege. (but of course this might have robbed us readers from the pleasure of the adventures to follow, thanks be to inefficient defense lawyers) Tal

I'm currently working my way through the Sharpe books after inspiration of a weekends worth of the Sharpe series as recently broadcast on BBC tv recently. Now even more so with the books; I'm wondering If Sharpe & Hakeswill were written as 2 sides of the same coin. As In that both come from backgrounds of severe deprivation & loss of family contact but take different paths on the question of morality. Also how much of Hakeswill's madness is him and how much due to the mercury treatment from the surgeon in TIGER or am I barking up the wrong tree? Eryk

Dear Bernard, I am really pleased that your next book is to be based on Agincourt. Although I am a fan of the Sharpe and Saxon series I am really looking forward to reading it and your no doubt exiting version of this famous English victory. With this in mind I wondered just how well your books are received in France. Sharpe and Thomas have inflicted plenty of injury to the French and now you will be adding Agincourt to their woe. Do your books sell as well in France as the rest of the world? I would be interested to know if you have that detail. Best wishes and good luck with your writing. Tony

First of all thank you for writing such excellent books. Your story lines and characters are simply brilliant. I was very pleased to see that you are writing a book about Agincourt as the medieval period is my favourite period. However, I am intrigued to know why you decided to write about that campaign having already covered Crecy in the Grail Quest. I am sure that the story lines will be very different but is the historical context too similar? i.e. English army marches across France, gets cornered by a much larger French army and totally destroys it. I thought that for a writer this might be a case of deja vu?
John Izzard

Hello I like the Sharpe books and films we see on digital TV. Have 2 questions, 1, Paper Battalions, would like to know more as local library stumped!! 2, More about Richard Sharpe, is there someone who he is based on? Thanks, Gillie Boase

Dear Mr Cornwell I've just finished reading "Sword Song" and thoroughly enjoyed it. One thing struck me - in the Arthurian Trilogy the Saxons were (by and large) the bad guys. In the Uhtred novels they are (by and large) the good guys. Bearing in mind the amount of research you put into your novels, did you have to perform any mental gymnastics when you came to to the Uhtred novels to bring about this change of image or did you just take it in your stride? Best wishes, Roger Dennerly

Dear Mr. Cornwell I'm a huge fan of yours, I love Sharpe's book and I'll read all of them. I'm from Brazil, we have only the 6 first Sharpe's books, so as now I'm in Canada I'm reading the others book in English. I've just read Sharpe's Eagle but I didn't read Sharpe's Havoc, that's because in the chronological order of the book Sharpe's Eagle is before Sharpe's Havoc. I just want to know if that is wrong or if I committed a mistake. But I assure you that's not going to diminish my enthusiasm for yours book! Sincerely Matheus Cardoso (one of yours Brazilians greatest fans)

Mr. Cornwell, I'm in the process of reading "Waterloo", and I have to say that so far it is simply spectacular and riveting! The very best of the Sharp series! Recently I bought and watched the short film "Sharpe's Battle", which was based upon your novel of the same name (another magnificent addition to the Sharpe series, especially on how you describe the fearsome fighting qualities of the 88th!). I couldn't help notice how much the film deviated from the novel in the sense that much of the plot and the story line was different in many respects and in many ways. I'm not saying that the film was bad, just that it didn't hold true to the book to the extent that it should have. Did you get a chance to watch that film (Sharpe's Battle), and if you did do you have any sour feelings or regrets as to how the material actually unfolded and deviated from the book as it appeared onscreen? For I thought the film could've been much better, especially considering that they left out the ridge at Fuentes de Onoro where the 88th routed the elite French Grenadiers at the tip of their bayonets. Yours truly, Taylor "Irish" Ahern, from Squantum (Quincy!), Massachusetts

Mr. Cornwell, I am currently taking my last several classes for my history major in Maryland, and one of them is the history of the vikings. Sadly, my teacher has not read any of your books, and to be honest, even though my favorite of your series has been The Saxon Stories, those are the only ones which I have only listened to on audio (all of Sharpe I have actually read). May I ask, why does it take so long for your books to come out in America, when you live in New England (even though you are from England)? I have to say, Uthred has inspired me to take this class, and it still amazes me to hear of Ivar Ivarsson, and Ivar the boneless, and Beocca in class. Thank you for these stories. Vince Kurtz. MD, USA