Dear Mr Cornwell,
I adore historical fiction, especially yours! I like to write myself, and I have written a short story set during the reign of Alfred the Great in which I have included Uhtred as a character, one of my protagonist’s good mates. I hope you don’t mind! I have also done the same with Sharpe, just as Simon Scarrow presumably did in his novel The Fields of Death, where he briefly mentioned a tall, rifle-carrying Greenjacket Major named Richard. With that in mind, I was wondering: if you ever wrote a cameo for another author’s creation, which would it be?
Also, after introducing my father and a number of friends to Azincourt I have been pestered with speculation about a potential film adaptation of it? I absolutely loved Sean Bean’s Sharpe and I’ve been praying for another of your stories to be brought to life on screen, I was hoping there might be a kernel of truth to the rumours?
Thor guide you,
Gustaf Haynes