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Just finshed "Redcoat", like all your books but this the best yet. Thanks, Bill Smith

Always like your books, enjoying your present series about Vikings, England, Alfred the Great etc. At the risk of violating your disclaimer it's always seemed to me a series about Viking exploratons, battles, ships and marine technology; a sort of Horatio Hornblower 850-900 A D would be great. Keep up the good work. Mort Aulls

Was reading your communique in the SAS bulletin and the new adversary you were mentioning sounds a bit like the French Flanker from the 70's Jean-Pierre Reeves. Big, blonde and striking. Maybe a good name to use too. A French man named after a rugby player against an English one. Nigel James

Thanks very much for twenty odd years of plesurable reading of your books and Series. I have converted many of my family and my two sons to avid Cornwell readers - keep up the good work. It all started on a wet holiday to the lakedistrict in the early eighties when I told my wife to get me some good reading material and she came back with the first three Sharpe books and I have been hooked ever since. Started the new book last night cannot put it down. Adam Davidson.

Just finished The Pale Horseman - well done sir. I am an avid reader of your quill pen's work :-).Be well. John Liddle

Sir, I've never written to an author before but, in my 68 years of reading I have never enjoyed an author more than I do you. Having read every one of your works, and I too am a fan of Hornblower, history being my great love, I can hardly contain myself in anticipation of your next historicly oriented novel. I just finished "The Pale Horseman" and your picture on the back cover convinced me that I would really like to know this fellow, maybe even buy you a pint in a Scottish pub! Being a documented descendent of most of the French Kings, from 460, the Scottish Kings from 1100 and the Plantagenetts, these wonderful tales take on a special meaning for me. Keep up the good work! No answer is necessary, just keep working! Bob Ervin

Dear Mr. Cornwell, Your books are superb. But I was dismayed to find that you are not planning to take a book tour to Arizona anytime soon. You see I take classes from Mesa Community College, and when I was taking a history course there The Archers tale was considered required reading for the course. And that is what got me hooked on the Grail Quest, and later the Sharpe series and the Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles. When the Professor asked what we thought of The Archers Tale, there were nothing but positive reveiws. It's now getting hard to buy any of your books, because once the book stores get a new shipment of them, they are immediately bought. I would just like to know if you would ever you will ever tour this way. Thank you, William Kenny

I really enjoyed the Arthur books and thought I would start on the Sharpe books. I sometimes read books on my handheld PDA. It's convenient when travelling because I can get a bunch of books on it and not have to worry about being trapped without something to read. The format I read in is called Mobipocket and I buy them from eBooks. There are some Sharpe books available on eBooks, but not in the Mobipocket format. If you get a chance would you please lean on Harper Collins to make your books available in this format. I tried to contact them directly, but they don't make it easy. By the way, I enjoyed hearing you on WCAI the other day. Tom Ford

Mr. Cornwell, I stumbled across The Winter King in an airport bookshop while waiting for a delayed flight in Singapore. The cover (UK) design grabbed me at first, followed by the fact that it was an Arthur tale (one of my most favorite subjects). I have gone on to devour all of the Arthur books (each of which has been re-read a dozen times at least and now look a little worse for wear), Stonehenge, The Grail Quest and have just completed The Last Kingdom (looking forward to Pale Horseman). I don't have a question to ask, simply wanted to say "Thankyou" for so many wonderful, compelling, exciting and riveting tales. The Arthur Books are my favorites. It is lamentable that the legend (or the reality, who knows ?) ended where it did. I would have rejoiced in more books in that particular series. Alas, so complete was your story there was no possibility of more. Happily I immediately found Stonehenge, followed by the Grail Quest books to salve my disappointment. I even based my 2002 UK trip on locations mentioned in the Arthur books (possibly going a little far, but it was a great trip !) I hope that one day, the Arthur books make it to film and are given treatment similar to the Lord of the Rings (Jackson's finished King Kong, maybe now he has time ? Why don't you send him a set of the Arthur books ?) But seriously, my sincere thanks for many many hours of absorbing and entertaining reading. If you ever come out to Australia, I'll be the one with a sack full of books for signing. Bob Orlando

Dear Mr Cornwall I am a great fan of yours, apart (I must in the minority) from the Sharpe novels. I have just read The Last Kingdom which I could not put down and when the paperback edition of The Pale Horseman is on the shelves it will be added to my collection (I have no room in my study for any more hardbacks).However I did find The Last Kingdom hard going in one respect, I had to keep referring to the front to get the locations, perhaps it would have been better to have done this the other way around.I don't know how you manage to consistently write such good books. Regards Charlie Boyce