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Bernard,

just a note of appreciation. I retired not so long ago and wanted to re-engage in reading for pleasure. I picked your Saxon tales series and I have really enjoyed it. I just finished warriors of the storm and look forward to the last few in the series.  I also just bought the entire sharpe series to read next!   Thank you for your prolific and thoroughly enjoyable work.

Chris

Having read almost all the Sharpe books I am just now finishing Sharpe's Command. I hope this message finds you well as we are about of the same age. I very much enjoyed the historical accuracy of Sharpe, as I did those of Horatio Hornblower as well as the Flashman books. I still have your non-Sharpe books to go through so keep on writing. Thank you very much for your work.

Best wishes,

Jeff Wyckoff

 

Hi Bernard

Just a quick line to thank you for the brave step you took in moving to America and taking the decision to write your first book. I am an avid reader generally but I'm captivated by Uhtred! I am due to visit Bebbanburg later this year. Currently on book 10, The Flame Bearer, and dreading finishing my last book.  It will feel as though I have lost a friend! Thank you for the hours of pleasure these books give and I'm only sorry I won't get to meet you in person as I live in the UK. Maybe we will see a sequel to Uhtred? I will keep everything crossed.

Very best wishes,

Teresa

 

Greetings, I just wanted to tell you that you are the reason I got into reading since high-school. The last kingdom is and will forever be my top 5 book series. I just couldn't stop reading it. I would think about Uhtred of Bamburgh and his adventures all day and night until I can continue reading it. I hope this message finds you well and you have a great day much love.

Robert Pardue

 

Greetings from Vancouver, Canada!  I just finished reading your “Warlord Chronicles” trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God, Excalibur) and it was one of the very few times an author has drawn me so deeply into a story that I didn’t want it to end.  In fact I felt as if I had to bid a sad good-bye to a group of friends (and fiends) I’ll never see again.  I loved the way you de-romanticized the myths surrounding Arthur with realistically flawed characters and rather odious accounts of everyday life in 5th century Britain, yet at the same time delivered a 1,500 page saga filled with heroes and despots, love and war, and just the right touch of magic to place your tome comfortably between historical fiction and earthbound fantasy.  I’m still replaying those final moments of “Excalibur” in my head.  You have a remarkable gift for teleporting readers to a different time and place with descriptive language that appeals to all five senses, thank-you for sharing that gift with the rest of us.  And just to let you know, I was so impressed with this introduction to your work that I went out and bought “Stonehenge” as well as the entire “Last Kingdom” series.

Robert Caspick

Dear Mr. Cornwall,

I have been reading your books, the Sharpe novels, in publication order. I have enjoyed them, but they were only entertaining in my opinion. I finished Sharpe’s Enemy this evening, about fifteen minutes ago. I cried my eyes out. Thank you for such a beautifully written book. I couldn’t put it down. I have Sharpe’s Honor on my bedside table. I might wait a few days, because I think I still need to process Sharpe’s Enemy. But I will be reading it as soon as I can.

Yours Sincerely,

Clarke Mitchell

 

Dear Bernard Cornwell,

I absolutely love and admire that you met your birth father in Canada, found your ancestors, realized (through much thought, pondering, and heart leaps, I would think) actual history, and took the time to share with us that history. I'm actually elated, given I can just imagine your literal story, as I was adopted, also. I found my birth father, too, and the quest for the ancestral stories do not end! I would love to see a movie of your quest!!! You know, those moments when the lightbulb has turned on and your eyes light up!

Thank you for sharing the treasure you found in your ancestry!

Elizabeth Carroll

Bernard,

 

I’ve wanted to write you for years but unfortunately have not had the time to put pen to paper until recently. First off I want to let you know that you are a fantastic writer, and your work has provided me with countless hours of enjoyment.  You have a way of writing which as a reader totally captivates, and the way your articulate makes me imagine the scenarios you describe as if I’m there in that moment.  In the early days of my professional career as a military officer, I traveled around the world- Africa, Japan, Indonesia, Qatar, and Afghanistan.  Your books accompanied me everywhere I went, and in some cases provided my with a needed escape from the current reality I was living in.

 

I don’t want to bore you, but to be brief, I actually learned of your books as a child but through a less than conventional means… my father was always interested in British tv shows and movies and I remembered a tv show with Sean Bean about the Napoleonic era which I could never put a finger on what it was called… after some time and searching later on it turned out to be “Sharpe’s Rifles.”  I bought my first book in the series while deployed in Africa on a year assignment, and immediately feel in love with the story.

 

I think it’s incredible how you translate actual military history with a storyline which brings it all together so beautifully.  I’ve read many (if not all) of your works, and think I am completely up to speed! Just finishing up Sharpe’s Command!

 

I truly appreciate your work, and I believe you have written some of the best historical fiction books out there. I sincerely hope you continue to write, and that Sharpe’s Command is not the last of the series!!

 

Respectfully,

 

Jack Schenker

Dear Mr Cornwell,

 

I've been a fan of your novels for several years. Recently my brother gave me a copy of Waterloo. It was so good! The maps & your descriptions made an incredibly complex battle understandable. I'd love to read more non-fiction from you if you ever felt so inclined. Perhaps a companion book about Trafalgar? My personal hero is Lord Nelson (I went to Burnham Thorpe in 2022 to visit his home town). I think you could do a great biography of him. I read the one by Southey but it is a little old fasioned (I think it was published in 1813) and it didn't have any maps, which made the battles difficult to conceptualize. Anyway, thank you for keeping British history alive! It is so interesting and you do a marvelous job telling the story.

 

-Scott

I just wanted to let you know that as much as I have enjoyed all of your books, your last two Sharpe titles were especially meaningful.

My dad and I had largely similar tastes in authors, and we enjoyed finding books that we would both like.  Your books, I'm happy to say, are at the top of the list.  My father passed away from cancer last year.  The last book he gave me to read was Sharpe's Assassin.  We both liked it and were able to talk about it.  Sharpe was one of Dad's favorite characters, although Uhtred might have edged him out (one of my students is currently working at Bebbanburg, but that is for another email).

My dad passed away last March.  When Sharpe's Command came out, I knew I'd read it, and it would be bittersweet. But I did read it, and enjoyed it, and it felt like my dad was reading it with me.

Thank you for that, and I look forward to Sharpe and Harper marching again.

Bill Plasse