Hello Bernard, I have just finished reading “The Lords of the North” and again I was not disappointed. To read “Cair Liqualid” (Carlisle) in the Lords of the North was out of this world for me. Born and Bred in the City I love and to be in one of your books, wow. I have read every known book you have written and cannot wait until October 07 for the next. My question to you is the position of Cumbraland on the map at the beginning of The Lords of the North. Is this correct? It is in Scotland, Dumfries & Galloway, the other side of Hadrians Wall. On another note. My 11 year old son has just been on his Residential to Bamburgh Castle, Lindisfarne, Durham and other places for 4 days. I thought it fate that I had just read The Lords of the North and was able to talk to him so much about his visit and St Cuthbert. We are going on a Camping trip to Bamburgh Castle to visit places he could not see and to follow Uhtreds travels the best we can. I thank you for that. I was married in St Cuthberts Church in Carlisle. As a teenager in the late seventies I helped with the excavation of St Cuthberts when we found 9 (I think) beheaded Friars. We do not know to this day why this happened to them. Is their something your not telling us? Does Uhtred re-visit Cair Liqualid in a later novel? Thank You God for Bernard Cornwell and why on earth have you not had a knighthood. With Gratitude and Thanks Kenneth Moore and Connor James Moore Aged 11