Dear Mr Cornwell I’ve just finished reading “Sword Song” and thoroughly enjoyed it. One thing struck me – in the Arthurian Trilogy the Saxons were (by and large) the bad guys. In the Uhtred novels they are (by and large) the good guys. Bearing in mind the amount of research you put into your novels, did you have to perform any mental gymnastics when you came to to the Uhtred novels to bring about this change of image or did you just take it in your stride? Best wishes, Roger Dennerly