Your Questions

Thoroughly enjoyed your Saxon series (read them all in a row after a recommendation from my daughter) and am wondering if you will be continuing the series with another book? Barbara Duncan

Loved the books about Alfred , Lords of the North was excellent , is there going to be another book in the series and if so when would it be release? Ilive in Australia and believe it or not run my own sword fighting group out here cheers Mark

I have just finished reading the Saxon tales and they were wonderful. Are you going to continue the series?

Julie

Great books. When is the next Saxon story due for release? Tim Webb

When will more additions to the Saxon Series be released???? I love the stories about Uhtred and Alfred!!! Please tell me there will be a follow up to the Lords of the North?? Thank you!!

Cris Cross

Hi, I just want to say that I'm not a huge book reader, maybe reading the occasional paragraph here or there, but the Saxon stories had me hooked. I absolutely loved them. Uhtred is an absolute legend, and I'm sure from a 23 year old bloke that's got to be a compliment. I just wanted to ask when the fourth in the series is? I think the best way to put how I feel at the moment is a drug addict going cold turkey in anticipation. So, could you please let me know, I really need a decent book to read when I go on holiday.

Franki McDonald

Bernard, I am absolutely captivated by Uhtred. I've blitzed through the first three stories and am eagerly awaiting the next installment. When might that be? Are there any more Thomas of Hookton stories in the works? Really enjoyed those as well. Thomas Waters Lawton, Oklahoma, USA

Thank you for all the years of enjoyment that your books have afforded me, whether reading them for the first time or re-reading them. They've been a useful tool for me to get people excited about history & have it come alive for them after they've left a re-enactment event. One silly little question if you please. Lucille is said to have died in the video "Sharpe's Challenge" (1817 - 2 years past Waterloo) but in "Sharpe's Devil" (1820) She is alive. Also in the Starbuck Chronicles she's referred to living well past even 1820. I know that anachronisms easily creep into a long series, but it's created a friendly argument amongst some of my Sharpe circle of friends. What's the straight skinny please? tusen takk, or tusen taco as you prefer, Sven

Dear Mr. Cornwell, What do you do when you have writer's block? Where do you get information for your books?-(Historical info) K.S

Dear Mr. Cornwell, just a quick note to tell you how much I appreciate, first your books, and also your approachability. I read most of the Sharpe series, the Arthur books, Gallows Thief, and Scoundrel, and the Starbuck Chronicles which I didn't like that much, simply as a matter of taste, nothing else, like I don't like fish, but it's still great to eat. Are you ever planning to come to Malta on holiday ? I'll be waiting for you to sign my books and you'll get a look round our temples, which are 2,000 years older than Stonehenge !!! Keep it up and thanks. Stephen Spiteri

Carrying on from my last question, the pit is 3* larger than a man and one snake lunged at old Obadiah and why does he always make references to the scriptures because nobody ever heeds of their rules once they're out in the field even Wellesly (wellington)
Jamie Foyle

Good day Mr. Cornwell; I am a HUGE fan of your writing, it definitly helps pass the long winter months here in Canada. I was just wondering if you have ever considered doing anything onlong the Prince/King John, Richard the Lionheart vain. Maybe even throw in a little Hereward the Wake or Robin Hood. I know...no story ideas, but it is such a great fluid and changing time in British history!!! Thanks Mike

You open a door by introducing Sharpe's son in the Starbuck books - is it possible we may have tales of his adventures in the Crimea? regards David Lamb

I recently wrote you regarding how much I enjoyed your Saxon series. I have a quick question if you don't mind answering. While writing the books, did you find that you enjoyed writing Uhtred more when he was with the Danes or with the English? Or did you find no preference either way. I was just curious. Thanks again for all of your work. David Stackel

I have enjoyed your Grail Quest books immensely, and I have especially enjoyed their accuracy. So I am a little surprised to find a mention of phlogeston, which I thought was seveteenth century invetion. Do you know something I don't? Please make you books longer. Ol Rappaport

Bernard, I am so thrilled to write you. You have become my favorite author. I have spent many days and nights the past two years reading everything that I can get my hands on. You have taught me more about the Napoleonic wars than a semester of history. I have just finished the Nathaniel Starbuck series and am reading Stephen Sears's book about Antietam. As I was reading the series it occurred to me that Colonel Lassan is indeed Richard Sharpe's son, you sly dog! It raises the question of how create your characters. You obviously created the son while you were developing the father, judging by the copyright dates. Does this mean that Starbuck will continue the war and when should we expect to be at Chancelorsville and into Gettysburg? I also wanted to ask you if you write your novels in the chronological order as they appear in the books or do you write as the thoughts occur and then edit later to give the sequence? Also do you ever tire of a character and decide to have them killed or removed? Is Hakeswell as beloved to you as say Adam Faulconer or even Sharpe and Starbuck? I will let you go before I take up too much of your time. I have Sharpe's Fury in the wings and am desperately looking for Sharpe's Revenge to see how Colonel Lassan was procreated. Best wishes and thank you for keeping me company, Rick Schatz