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my wife, Rebecca and I were at your talk at the Decatur library and reallyenjoyed it. As an infantryman, Europe ww11 in Europe B.A.R.in that winter of 45 I know just how Sharpe et al felt after spending three months in ice/snow covered foxholes just as thinly clad. May I suggest my favorite memoir of the Napolenic wars T ADVENTURES OF GEN. MARBOT by Thompson -great ink sketches-pub. 1932 or 3 as an objective narrative as I have ever read and I,ve read all my rather long life. John F Campbell

hi my name is Ben I am from Australia and I really want to see all dvds about Sharpe. I have talked to the abc shops and all the video stores and they none of them can help me!. So I was wondering if you could help me out and tell me were to find some. I would be very grateful. Oh and I loved the Last Kindom and I am spending all my money on the Sharpe books. Ben Laird

Dear Mr Cornwell I was wondering if you would ever consider having your Arthurian series made into a film seeing how good the Lord of the Rings was because after reading your Warlord chronicles for the second time it is now my lifetime ambition to direct and make them because they were the best books I have ever read and I now thirst for any book involving Arthur. Jack Bullen

Dear Bernard: No other author I have ever read has had me so engrossed in or so utterly delighted by his or her works, or indeed so eager to see what's coming. You deserve to be knighted for your services to storytelling. The Warlord Chronicles, Grail Quest (and Alfred The Great later on) series are surely already overdue for being translated to the big screen? You're a good man for bringing so much joy to so many. Here's to many more Cornwell works! Very best regards, Mike Taylor, Burton upon Trent

Thank you for being the author of the books that I enjoy so much--I am 72 years of age and have been a fairly prolific reader-but the way you merge your characters in the novels without destroying history, has sold me as a no.1 fan-please keep writing. I have been spending many hours of interesting reading--Thank you and the best of health and happiness. Normal Harlely

I have just finished The Last Kingdom and thought it was fantastic. I enjoyed all the Arthurian books and Stonehenge as well as the Grail quest, but this has to beat the lot!!! How can an author keep getting better? I can't wait for the next book in the Alfred saga. (what a bloodthirsty lot our ancestors were). Theresa Halligan

Mr. Cornwell: I have just finished reading "The Last Kingdom". In your summary at the end of the book you mentioned that this book is the first of more stories about Uhtred. What a pleasure to know that you have more in mind. I look forward to further excitement involving Uhtred. Thank you.
Bill Dussling

I posted a message on this a few months ago and you gave some very negative answers. I asked you about a new Sharpe series and you said there was a mentioning of it. Recently you said that you doubt it. From what I've heard Sharpe was a very popular TV series, making Sean Bean a famous and popular actor. It would make sense to make a new series. Lots of people would watch it. Also, I asked about movie offers. You said it would be too expensive. JRR Tolkien is one of the most popular authors ever. He also thought his books would be too expensive to dramatise and they're just as grand and use just as many battles in your books. They managed to make Oscar winning films of The Lord of the Rings. Read the book and watch the movie to see if it doesn't do it justice. Some people say a film wouldn't do your books justice. That is a problem that many authors, such as Stephen King, have. All you have to do is read through any script ideas they have and talk with the director before selling the rights to the books. I hope you do consider what I am saying and change your opinions from negative to positive. Robert Eyre

I have read all your books translated in Italian language and I think you are a myth of literature! I'm a 38 year old lawyer, I studied in "liceo classico"(latin, old greek, history...) and I live in Treviso, a small city in north of Venice, 30 Km. You are in the Olimpo of writers together with Patrick O' Brian and Nicolas Guild. My compliments and I'm waiting for your next book(Yesterday I've finished the third book about Graal, "Il calice e la spada"). Marcello

I blame the navy. I had been given an eighth finished but rather lovely model of a sailing frigate, which I was sadly taking to a charity shop on the basis of there being absolutely no chance of me having the time to finish the job. They had a copy of Sharpe's Trafalgar with its enticing cover. Since I hadn't seen the (non-existent?) tv version, I naturally supported the charity and bought it. So help me, it might even have been a donkey charity. Needless to say, after halfway down page one I couldn't put it down. However, I also spotted Sharpe's Tiger in the chronology list near the front covered the seige of Seringapatam. It happens that General (later Lord) Harris was the great great (plus a few more greats) grandfather of two of my kids, so naturally I wanted to know more having heard bits but not a lot. Seems he was a decent bloke. Gave a copy to my son, but he still hasn't read it.... foolish lad. Now, of course, I've read (and bought...) the lot (except the American civil war books) and have a question. What with your current affairs tv background, can you really manage to do your own research, or do you have a team of researchers, and how on earth do you manage to filter all the information you must get through? And still have time to write such gripping stuff... and probably have Christmas dinner. And possibly attend the occasional hall-burning re-enactment.... with kind regards, Jes Mainwaring

I just wanted to tell you how much joy, yes joy, I get from your books - please keep them coming! Thanks, Matt Murphy