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Hello Mr Bernard Cornwell OBE! Have been meaning to write to you for ages just to thank you for such great books. Was introduced to them by a friend lending me your Arthur Trilogy this time last year and haven't stopped reading your work (half the Sharpes, Grail Quest and my favourites the Saxon books) This was meant to be a short message to congratulate you on your OBE and ask what your thought were on the award? are you pleased? Thanks Again (please keep writing) Alex, Coventry

This is just a short note to congratulate you on your OBE. I don't know what the citation is but in my mind it is thoroughly deserved for the way in which you have made aspects of British history so interesting and accessible. Keep up the good work. Regards Clive

Bernard many congrats on your recent OBE. (Well deserved). Best wishes. Martin Parfitt

Congratulations to you Bernard Cornwell OBE, well deserved I must say. I have been an avid reader for over ten years now and now consider the Duke of Wellington to be my main focus in non-fiction reading, thanks to your fantastic Sharpe series (and another on the way, I can't wait!) At the moment I am half way through The Lords of The North, which I am glad to say is up to your usual high standard. Good Luck for the future, please don't retire too soon!?! Phil Elwis, Yorkshireman living in Scotland!

Hi Bernard Just wanted to say congratulations on being awarded the OBE. A very well deserved honour! As well as being a fabulous author ( I can't wait to get my hands on Sharpes' Fury) I never ceased to be amazed at the kindness and patience you have towards all the people who send you e-mails. Fiona

Congrats on your OBE! Steve Root

Dear Bernard. Congratulations on being awarded the OBE! It is well deserved. We wish you continued good health, and look forward to many more books in the future. Wanda in Texas

I just saw you are to be awarded the OBE. I can't think of a novelist who deserves it more, not just for the quality and volume of his work, but for his unfailing courtesy to fans and generosity to other writers. Congratulations. Dave McKissack

Many congratulations on being awarded an OBE. When the day comes to collect this much deserved award may your journey be swift and your day be long so that you can enjoy the event to the fullest. I guess to say "Fate is inexorable" is totally inappropriate today! Kindest regards Andrew Moore

Dear Mr. Cornwell, If you ever get to a point where you need begging and pleading to keep writing, send me a note. I think that I've read every fiction piece that you've done (I put down anything else that I'm reading if I stumble across something new of yours) and anticipate the next. I discovered you through the Sharpe series and am delighted to learn that there are a couple of new TV versions to come, and a book in September. I'm a retired Federal Agent and have some time now to indulge my lifelong love of good fiction. I don't need a response to this thank you for all the pleasant and educational hours that I've spent with your writings--unless, of course, you get to that begging and pleading part I mentioned. Thank you, Leo Shepherd St. Augustine, FL USA

Dear Mr Cornwell, just finished reading the Lords of the North and would like to congratulate you on another excellent book. I have read all three and thoroughly enjoyed every one. I come from Sunderland in Tyne was pleased to see a few local places all of which I have been to particularly the Roman forts. I have also read the Warlord chronicles and the Grail Quest series also Stonehenge. I am an avid fan of your work and look forward to reading many more of your brilliant books. I hope to read the next installment of Uhtred's tale before too long. thankyou and keep up the good work. Jason Callaghan

Thanks for the Saxon Stories, I can't wait for the next ones. I only bought the first two because they were cheap in the supermarket (£3.73 twin pack) and I didn't have time to go the second hand bookshop before I went on holiday. I know I'll end up paying full price to get the next ones but hey ho! They'll be worth it. Just wish they were in German, I was going to recomend them to some friends but alas I don't think their English is up to it (I'll still recommend them, just don't think they'll be reading them).
Steve Root

Dear Bernard, as a keen historian and liker of a good yarn, I have read your books for many years. sacrilegious as it may be, I have only read one or two Sharpe books, instead I have lost myself in the wonderful world you created in Stonehenge, the Warlord chronicles series, the Grail Quest series and now your wonderful series about Uhtred. I love your historical accuracy. As a dark age re enactor I love reading about fighting in the shield wall, and as an ex riot squad policeman, the similarities are uncanny! Who knows maybe Uhtred's family and storyline will stretch to 1066, the most facinating year in our history as far as I am concerned. Thank you for the hours of pleasure you have brought me. I work as a welfare officer looking after blind ex war veterans, and we often discuss your books, which are so wonderfully portrayed in the medium of talking books. thank you. Alan Hay

Dear Bernard Listened to 'Stormchild' in CD book form on a long journey, and think it would make a cracking radio series, Thanks for Sharpe, Peter Ball

No response necessary - just thought I'd like to add my voice to any others in thanking you for the great work you've done. Keep up the impressively entertaining (and much the better for us fans, prolific) work! -AW

Dear Bernard. My wife just bought Gallows Thief in the UK - couldn't find it in South Africa - and I'm looking forward to reading it when she gets back. Another reader asked about "sheltron". I think this probably comes from the same roots as "schiltrom" or "shiltron" (Scottish usage for a body of spearmen) in a age of non-standardised spelling. OK, most people were illiterate anyway! Martyn Kerr

Dear Mr. Cornwell, I'm writing you from Italy. This is my sendon message to you, written 1 year after the first one. Still nothing special to say rather than to try to share with you at least a moment, being you indeed my favourite writer. I've almost read and bought all of your books: the 20 books of Sharpe, and looking forward to see the 21st coming soon. I've also just bought your latest Alfred's book which soon I'll have the pleasure to read, to see what Uthred will solve his problems. I wish to thank you further for the happy hours of pleasure I have by reading your novels. Recently, in one book by Mattew Reilly, which write a very fast action books, at the end of the book, where he listed the person he thanks, he wrote ... "if you know any writer, do not hesitate to sustain him with your thanks, which provide the strenght to continue in his activity." Well, then here I am to sustain you with this message of mine. Yours faithfully Pier Luigi

I have just finished reading your latest novel 'Lords of the North'. Once again you have excelled yourself yet again. Every book you write just gets better and better. I read this book in 3 days and I do think your latest 'Viking' novels are your best so far. Having said that I and my family have enjoyed every single book you have written. Should you get time to read another authors books I would recommend the latest novel from Conn Iggulden. The book is called 'Young Bloods' and it charts the lives of Napoleon & Wellington, a thoroughly good read. Many, many thanks for providing me with many hours of entertainment and please keep your books coming. Jimmy Holmes