Dear Mr Cornwell, I am a french PhD student in organic chemistry and I do like reading novels especially in english in order to continue my training of your language. Thus a few weeks ago I was looking for a new book to read, in the books in english department of my favourite bookshop in Montpellier (France), when I found your novel “The Last Kingdom” in paperback edition. Your novel is absolutely fascinating and absorbing and it was hard for me to put it down, I even read it while walking back home in the evening after my day in the lab…So then at the end of the novel I was relieved to see that the sequel “The Pale Horseman” was already available in hardback and I ran to my bookstore to buy it… I just finished it and I am now already impatient to read the next adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Could you please tell me if there will be a sequel of “The Saxons Stories” and if when? I have read some historical novels before both in english and french (among them some of James Michener ones ) but few of them were as gripping as yours. Moreover thank you for the map and the place-names and historical notes. During a year I spent in England I visited York, Londres, Bath, Winchester and I found fascinating to visit those places thanks to you in the ninth century. I also saw a white horse in Wiltshire… As a french I have some vocabulary gaps in english, so could you please explain me the meaning of fyrd (is it another word for army??) And I would like some reading advices while waiting the next adventures of Uhtred… Thank you very much. Gwenaëlle SIZUN