Dear Mr Cornwell.

I have been an avid fan of your books since my father gave me Sharpe’s Rifles and Sharpe’s Waterloo to read on holiday when I was 15, (am now 29). More recently I have been reading and collecting the Warlord and Saxon series and I was wondering whether in his later life Uhtred might find himself in an Abbey/Monastery near the Welsh border perhaps, reading a very old chronicle by an old monk called, say, Derfel Cadarn??????

You used Sharpe’s son I believe and linked the Sharpe and Copperhead series and I wondered whether linking Derfel and Uhtred had crossed your mind or tempted you?

Yours, looking forward to the next Uhtred novel.

Nick