Your Questions

I am an avid reader of your work I am always on the look out for any new work. One small question however, are you planning to revisit the Starbuck chronicles. I recently re-read them and feel there is still some un-finished business. Why did you stop? Thank you for some much pleasure your books have given me. Mike Stallard

Well, you've done it again. Last Kingdom is stunning. Especially as I have visited Bamborough Castle and the surrounding country, what a place. And what a beach, I can just see the long ships pulled up on the sand. I am really loooking forward to the next book, don't leave it too long. Isn't it about time Starbuck came back from leave, he has a war to go to? Jon Martin

Hi Bernard I apologise if this has been asked before but I have just read that further Sharpe TV episodes are in the offering, going back to India? True or False? Matt

Dear Mr Cornwell, I was just wondering whether you knew why films were never made of the first 3 Sharpe books when he is in India. I think they would have made fantastic films! David Hart

Dear Mr Cornwell- I have just finished reading the Grail series and have found it difficult to read anything else subsequently such was the impact your writing has made upon me. Having stayed quite inadvertantly in a small Auberge (Auberge le Cathare)between Toulouse and Carcassonne one summer which had some really strange characters I subsequently read 'The Perfect Heresy-the life and Death of the Cathars' by Stephen O'Shea to try and understand their Philosophy. Your Grail series really put some grahic detail into the thought patterns and ways of those times. An incredible read for which I thank you. My question is Has this series been translated in to French?. I have lent my copy of Harlequin to a French Pal who finds the English language version time consuming to read much as he is enjoying it because he has to keep using his dictionary. I truly hope Thomas of Hookton -or his son- would walk again but if not I will certainly be reading the remainder of you books-Unfortunately I do not seem to be able to get hold of Sharpes Tiger having read all the remainder. Thanks for making an old man happy-Kind regards Mike Naish

Mr.Cornwell, I thought that -- all -- the Sharpe books were the top of historical-fun storie!! This was before I started your Grail serie!! Simply superb!! Any plan for Agincourt ?? George Margaritis

Mr. Cornwell, I have read just about everything you have written, as has my father, brother, uncles, and cousins (the males anyway). Thanks for making family time an opportunity to discuss your characters and the times in which they lived instead of looking into each others glazed eyes while my aunts discuss and sample a new variation on their pumpkin pie recipe that defies all natural law and actually makes infinitely unpalatable, worse. I have just finished the Arthur series. It seems that you enjoyed writing this series above all others, as I have enjoyed reading it. The technical challenges with the numerous characters and locations seem to have been particularly daunting. Do you enjoy the freedom of writing of an era where you are not as constrained by history such as Arthurian Britain, or is it more enjoyable to write using specific and detailed historical events and weaving a character like Sharpe into history? Which do you find easier? How long in respect to your other books did the Warlord series take to write? Will you be returning to Halifax, Canada in the spring? Thanks for everything. Regards, Joe H Day

Dear Mr Cornwell, Like many others, I would like to express my admiration for your work. Although I live in the US (Western Mass, actually), I just finished "The Last Kingdom" which I ordered, through the wonders of the internet, from a bookstore in London. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to future installments. I was wondering if there is any chance you might be planning any speaking engagements here in Massachusetts (or elsewhere in New England) any time soon? Jeff H.

First of all, I'm a big fan etc. etc. Getting to the question faster - you mentioned that you will write more Sharpe books, given that, I am finding a hard time imagining a timeframe for the next on - it seems as if you've covered almost every period in his life in all the books, where will you get the material from ? Post Sharpe's Devil ? Maybe make him an old, fat general ? Secondly, is there a general time frame for the next book's release ? 2005, 2006 ? Evgueni Tikhonov

Bernard I have read all of your Sharpe and Nate Starbuck books and greatly enjoyed them all. My questions are - is there a new Sharpe book due out and are you going to finish off the Starbuck Chronicles as I found them excellent and and am always eyeing book stores for your latest addition. many thanks, Scott Last

Dear Sir I would like to know when your next Sharpe's book will be coming out and what will be the title of the book. thank you for your time T.D.Young I

Dear Bernard, is the translation that you use for the latin phrase odi at amo excrucior which you use in Excalibur to describe kArthur the correct one? Thank you - I can't wait for the next Sharpe book. Lee

Any chance of a series on a figure like Brian Boru or possibly even Finn MaCool? I just finished The Grail Quest, Stonehenge and The Arthur Books and I just can't get enough of these types of tales. Congratulations, and thank you. You're the best at what you do. Prior to reading your books, if someone told me you'd supplant Morgan Llywellyn and Mary Stewart as my favorite authors, I'd have called them crazy. Brett P. Morrical

Dear Mr Cornwell, Firstly, I don't mean to offend you with this question, it really is meant sincerely! Do you think that writing so many books with a violent theme has affected your personality? Has it made you feel more violent (maybe on the inside) having to get into the mindset of Sharpe and so many other characters, good and bad, which you do so very well! May I ask, did you experince violence in the past, for example have you been in the army? As I noticed with myself, reading all your Sharpe books it has made me myself feel a more violent person than I was before, which scares me! Timothy