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Dear Mr Cornwell, I am very happy to have stumbled upon this website because it allows me to express my great apreciation and enthusiasm for your Novel the Winter King! (I've not read any of your other novels but I intend to change that ASAP.) I started reading the Winter King yesterday and only stopped reading when I finished the last page, at about 6 o clock this morning! As a result, today I slept through a very important meeting at work ( - I somehow feel you are to blame!) I vividly remember one specific moment from last night, at about 3:30 am, when reason snapped me out of my hypnotic state for a few seconds and dictated that I should at least get two hours of sleep, but I actually found it physically impossible to put the book down! I just had to find out how Derfel would cope at the battle of Lugg Vale!!! The first thing I did after finishing the book was order part 2 and 3 of the Warlord chronicles from amazon.com. Get this: part 2 has a 3 to 5 weeks delivery estimate! I think that's criminal!!!! Anyhow, sorry to have disturbed you from your writing duties, without even asking a proper question (unless perhaps you have an idea why amazon would provide part 1 and 3 at 24 hours notice and part 2 at 3-5 weeks notice!?) Thanks again and keep up the good work and I hope you will one day come and do a book-signing tour in the Netherlands! Eelco van Kappen

Hi, Will there be any more Starbuck books? I thought they were great. Bert Connell

A big fan of yours, the series I enjoy most is the Starbuck Chronicles. I hope you will one day write more of these book. Derek Armstrong

I don't normally write things like this but I am a 19 year old student with far too much time on my hands and just want to say what a great author I think you are. The Sharpe TV series were amazing but they are not a patch one books which tell the stories of Sharpe and Harper so fantastically. I have also begun reading the Starbuck chronicles but feel somewhat cheated that this young 'copperhead' seems unable to finish his rebellion. I hope you make time to write more Starbuck novels despite his obvious Sharpe resemblance as I found this as gripping as any of the Sharpe novels. I am also just about to start reading the first grail book which I look forward to reading with relish. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I wish you the best of health in the future and hope you continue to write quality books for myself and many others to enjoy. Michael Gartside

Mr. Cornwell: I "discovered" the Sharpe books by recognizing Sean Bean in the LOTR movies and sort of traveling back in time and connecting him with the Sharpe series I used to watch on PBS. I blogged around until I figured out the TV series was actually a series of books first. I got hooked. Then I turned my bother on to them, and then my Mom. We're pretty much addicted. Now I'm half way through Enemy of God. One of my grandfathers was a miner in Wales, and I'm part Welsh, so your re-telling of this legend touches a chord deep within. By the way, I rank you up there with Patrick O'Brian. Joel Hicks

Greetings! I have read the grail quest series books and have enjoyed them thoroughly. IMO- you should get someone to make a movie trilogy based accurately on the books. I would be pleased to see them on my shelf. You are a very talented individual and have supplied me with hours of joyful reading. Thanks and peace, Maggie.

Dear Bernard Cornwell, I am a brazilian reader of yours books, they are just wonderful! Here in Brazil we just have the Arthur and the Grail Quest books and I have already read the Grail Quest, but not finished, they did not publish the last one here (the Heretic). And I finished the first one of Arthur books. I would like to congratulate you because the way you write the stories is fantastic! It really takes you into the Old Ages. I just have one objection to do: Eleanor's death on the Vagabond, it was horrible, she really was a nice girl with Thomas. Thank you. Joao Eduardo

Dear Mr Cornwell, I have read and enjoyed Sharpe's Trafalgar and was particularly interested in your comment in the post script that only one person was known of who had fought at Trafalgar and Waterloo. I thought the following might interest you. In the sixties I worked in London as a secretary and on one occasion, between jobs, I was sent as a 'temp' to the medal department at Spink, the antique dealers. One day a fairly elderly man came into our little office holding a pair of medals in a frame, one bar Trafalgar and one bar Waterloo, which had been awarded to his ancestor. He was very reluctant to sell them but he needed the money. A deal was struck and he went sadly away. I was upset too, particularly as they were promptly sold at an obviously necessary profit to a collector. I never knew the man's name and I cannot remember the exact year - perhaps 1961 or 65 or 69. But the medals are presumably still in the hands of a collector and may be known of or resurface at some stage. Perhaps you have already been told of them. Thank you for all your enormously enjoyable books. Yours sincerely Rosemary Gorton

I just wanted to let you know how much I have enjoyed your writings. I have the collections of the Grail series as well as most of the Sharpe series, and Gallow's Thief and the Archer's series. You are a wonderful story-teller, and I have thoroughly enjoyed every book I've purchased. I greatly anticipate any new Sharpe book, and hope to complete my collection- unfortunately, book stores here do not have a good selection, but I am still working on it!! Hope you have a blessed and peaceful holiday! Kathleen Paul

I've just been reading through the 'Your Questions' page. in answer to Geraint, there was indeed a Rifleman of the 5/60th who fought at both Albuera and Fuentes de Onoro. His name was David Lochstadt, and he was one of only two men who received fifteen clasps to the Military General Service Medal when it was finally issued in 1848. This was the maximum number of clasps awarded, and I am only surprised that he actually lived long enough to get his medal! An officer of the 60th, Brevet Major Galiffe, also fought at and survived both battles. I don't know if he ever got his MGSM, or how many clasps he got if he did get it....Keri Tolhurst

Dear Mr Cornwell, I have just finished reading "Gallows Thief" this morning and I wanted to say that I found it an excellent book. In fact, I'd say it was one of the most enjoyable books of yours that I have read to date. I do hope that you plan to write more novels involving Captain Rider Sandman and his friends [and enemies come to think of it] as he is such a wonderful character that you could develop in so many ways. I begun reading your novels with your Arthurian trilogy and from there have gone on to begin to read the Sharpe books. I'm up to the end of "Sharpe's Gold" at the moment and I'm waiting for "Sharpe's Escape" to come out in paperback before reading on, so there are still plenty of your novels for me to look forward to reading. It has occurred to me that perhaps Sharpe will encounter Captain Sandman in a book that I have yet to read, but I have many miles of Sharpe yet to enjoy before I will know whether the two will meet. Thank you very much for taking the time to read my short message, and thanks for continuing to write such enjoyable novels. Regards, Stephen Avann