Dear Mr Cornwell I’m really into the whole Holy Grail legend at the moment but unfortunately I can’t decide whether I prefer the holy bloodline theory as featured in “The Da Vinci Code” or the more traditional cup story as in the Arthurian legends and your brilliant “Grail Quest” series. All he TV shows I’ve watched on the subject recently all claim that the medieval romantic author Chetrien de Troyes (probably the wrong spelling!) completely made up the fact of the grail being a cup yet I do wonder how they can actually prove that! Then again maybe it’s something else altogether and no-one knows what!I wondered, seeing as you wrote the Grail Quest, whether you believe in Thomas’ holy grail, the holy bloodline, something else or nothing at all? Marie. PS I think a reread of the Grail Quest is in order. Also am looking forward to receiving Lords of the North from Amazon.