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I would just like to say that I greatly enjoy reading your books about Richard Sharpe. I started watching the movies and was delighted to discover there were books too that can satisfy my craving. I stumbled across your website trying to find a chronological order to the books and your other books sound really intriguing too. I hope to be able to meet you at a book signing in the future! Cassie Mootz

Mr. Cornwell, First I would like to thank you for the many hours of enjoyment your books have given to me. I have read the Grail Quest, the Arthur Novels, Stonehenge, Redcoat, and am currently reading the Saxon Stories. I have one very simple question. What is with the crippled legs? I have been noticing that this is a common occurence in your writing and was wondering if I was missing something. Is there some other meaning to this, or is it simply coincedence. Please help me out as i have been troubled with this for many moons. Thank You Justin Tilley Montclair, New Jersey

Hi, Mr. Cornwell Congratulations for your books. I've read the Arthur Books and The Grail Quest and they are very well written. I'm from Brasil and here we don't have the translated version for The Saxon Stories. I'll start to read the Sharpe Books and wait for The Saxon. Your books made me be interest again for the human history. Thanks. PS.: Sorry for my bad english. Lucio

Dear Mr Cornwell, Congratulations on the OBE, you really deserve it giving so much pleasure to so many people. Just finished Lords of the North, great stuff! I have read just about everything you have written. I read on the site people want you to write more Starbuck, I enjoyed the Starbuck series, but...... if there's a choice,give me Sharpe every time! Rgds Robert Marsh

Love the books. Dismayed by the typos (paperback versions anyway). Surely an OBE Officer deserves corrections. Congratulations on the honor! We were thrilled with the news - hope you heard the joyous whoops from our end over the miles - and are delighted for you. Continuing good wishes, Nancy N. P.S. The Providence Journal is currently running a dandy, multi-part series on Nathanael Greene, Rhode Island native and celebrated Revolutionary War General, that you might enjoy reading. It's coinciding with publication of the final volume of the Greene papers, and is available at: http://www.projo.com/. Nancy Nemon

Firstly, can I say how much I've enjoyed your books, especially the latest saxon stories as I never thought you'd be able to outdo the Arthur series.... as a proud Welshman, who also speaks the language fluently, congrats for getting the phonetics across to the reader. I dare say you have many projects ahead of you and are very busy, but can I suggest you have a look at the history of Owain Glyndwr, as his story seems to be screaming out to be told in your unique manner. Thanks again for all the heroes (and villains), you have quite a fan club in Wales. Matthew Howes

Hi Bernard, First I must say how much joy Sharpe has given me over the last 18 or so years, although you must have other writing priorities you should take time to write even in short story form the tale of Sharpe's childhood to the point of escaping the gallows to his first meeting with that marvellous villain Sgt Hakeswill, this story should be the anchor point of the whole series, if you could indulge me in this I would and certainly all of the Sharpe fans worldwide would appreciate it, I view young Sharpe as a rather tough but likeable rogue whose loins tend to determine his actions rather than his head thus leading him to his future role. Thanks again for an excellent series. Martin Milton-White

Hello Mr. Cornwell, Congratulations on your OBE - greatly well deserved. I read recently that Sharpe may be knighted in the future - I was thinking it would be extremely fitting for him to be made a companion in the Order of the Garter - taking into consideration his many female exploits! I'm sure the Countess of Salisbury wouldn't mind one bit! Luke

Mr Cornwell, I just wanted to thank you for the Sharpe series. I started out watching the series and made a mental note that I always wanted to read the books. I am in the US Army and stationed in Iraq without my wife and kids. Suddenly I have a lot more time to read and a friend started sending me your Sharpe series! I quickly became hooked. Each character is even more developed than the tv series ever allowed. Each quest seems so much more daunting in the books. They have civil war and revolutionary war battlefields but you bring each conflict to life in such a way that I want to go to India and Spain. I also love your historical notes after the story. I may be a captured audience but I felt the need to thank you for some great books that make this deployment to Iraq almost bearable. Even without my family. Thanks so much and take care, Edward Oldt SFC, USA Baqubah, Iraq

Just finished reading The Pale Horseman.Fantastic as your books always are. Just could not put it down till I had finished it. My wife threatened to leave me if I did not come to the table to eat. Looking forward to Lords Of The North. Perhaps I should prepare a`stack of sandwiches. Cheers, Richard.