Dear Bernard,

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about Uhtred, and learning about saxon England.  What a bloodthirsty and barbaric time it was!  But your story-telling is superb.  I have read all the books in order, and have just finished ‘The Empty Throne’.  I’d like to know if that truly is the end – or just as far as you’ve got.  Will there be any more books in the series? Uhtred mentions more than once that he survives to become an old man.  So what happens to him, and to his son, to Finan, to Aethelflaed, and all the others?  I know I could Google the history, I could find out from the historians and the many books that have been written – but it’s not the same as reading your books!  Anyway, if you haven’t done so already, please write the next one!  And the one after that, and the one after that….  sorry!

Thank you so much, also, for all the pleasure you’ve given me through your writing.

With best wishes,

Rory