Hi Mr. Cornwell,

I just want to say a huge (and belated) thank you for giving us the Warlord Chronicles. I was just ten years old when i started reading them and now I’m 21 and doing a degree in Medieval History. It was your stories that first got me interested in Anglo-Saxon England and i honestly don’t know what I’d be studying now if I’d never come across them (probably something incredibly dull!)

I know we’ve probably seen the end of Uhtred, but would you ever consider writing about Anglo-Saxon England again? I’m sure your fans would love to hear about Uhtred’s grandchildren for example!

Arman Razak

Hello Bernard,

I just finished War Lord and I am both melancholic to see Uhtred who has been with me since I was five and my mum read me the Lords of the North every night before bed and happy to finally get to see his story end. I am now twenty-three, I wear an amulet of Thor around my neck and when I am afraid, I always clasp it and ask myself, “what would Uhtred do?” I thought your choice to end his story with Brunanburh was perfect and I remember years back when you first introduced Æthelstan I wondered if that was where Uhtred’s story was leading. The question I had was whether you had the aspirations to make any further novels in the Anglo-Saxon period? I think of Æthelred the Unready and his son Edmund Ironside being faced by Canute the Great. Surely the Lords of Bebbanburg continued to rule in the 11th century? Even if you do not, I think these stories have done something great. I major in History at Carleton University in Ottawa and my studies have been in no small part inspired by years of reading your novels and I imagine there are many others who have fallen in love with history thanks to you. Looking forward to reading Sharpe’s Assassin and thank you for inspiring me down my educational path, I don’t know where I would be if I had not read your books but as Uhtred would say, wyrd bið ful aræd.

Warm regards,

David Damas