Hello Mr Cornwell, I confess to being a latecomer to your books.I thoroughly enjoyed the TV Sharpe series, but it’s not my period for books. I resisted buying your books as I have so many and you are a prolific writer.However I succumbed to The Pale Horseman and that was it!The Saxon stories have provide me with a lot of pleasure.I love books and for me they provide so much enjoyment for so little outlay. I was very pleased to see that there are at least two more books in the series. I would like to ask one question; the books are apparently well researched, but in The Burning Land reference is made to a winged helmet and I recall there may have been a similar reference in an earlier book.As far as I’m aware vikings never had winged helmets.It has been suggested that cheek pieces opened upwards may have given the impression of wings. I appreciate artistic licence, but for such a small entry it would not seem worthwhile being inaccurate.If I am wrong I should very much like to know your source for this. I always liked those pictures of Vikings in winged helmets, so I would be pleased to be wrong.

I’m a fan of the French Indian War period: would you consider writing a book set in that period with an Indian and a British soldier as the main characters? Thank you and please keep writing. John Cruickshank