Dear Mr Cornwell. It is with the greatest of pleasure that I read your books, having first picked up Sharpe’s Triumph on a ferry going to Ireland almost 8 years ago when I was a wee boy of 14. Since then I have read through all of the Sharpe novels at least 3 times each including the new ones, others are even more so, and have also collected the Warlord Chronicles, which I adore, and the Saxon Chronicles, what can I say, I just love your books. I do have 2 questions… 1. Do you have any idea when the next Saxon book is coming out? I am currently going through Lords of the North, for the third time, and really want to know how it all ends for Uhtred.

2. Just out of curiosity, you mentioned in the Historical notes, which I find very interesting by the way, in Sharpe’s Eagle, that you have never read the book after publication (I think that’s correct). I was just wondering if this is still the case as this is my favorite Sharpe book, aside from maybe Sharpe’s Triumph. Yours in literature, David James Chesshire