Dear Mr Cornwell, I am a huge fan of yours, am currently reading your books so far about Uhtred, fantastic. I have one question, how do you get such vivid and compelling descriptions of so many different aspects of life and warfare? When reading about fighting in a shield wall I can imagine it as you are writing it, similarly with the Sharpe series and so on. Do you do historical re-enactments or is it purely book research? By the way, can you please write more of the Uhtred books soon, I’m nearly finished the ones so far! Kind regards, Martin Pratchett