Bulletin Board

Hello Mr. Cornwell.
my name is Maxwell Cane and I am a 24 year old oil refinery worker from California. I just finished reading Agincourt today and I finished Stonehenge last week. I have also read Lords of the North, The Last Kingdom and Winter King.  I have greatly enjoyed each book and I think you are by far the greatest historical fiction writer to ever string a sentence together. Thank you so much for writing these books. I will continue to buy them and read them. Have a great day sir.

I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoy the Saxon Tales (Well, I've read several of your other series as well!).  Lord Uhtred has become my favorite character in all my reading and when he sets the shield wall and the battle starts, you can just feel the intensitiy in your descriptions.   I'm ready for book 7 of this series.....thank you for sharing your wonderful gift.
Janalee Brunton

Back in the 1980s I read many of Alexander Kent's stories of the British Navy in the French Empire & Napoleonic eras.  Also CS Forestor.  They were engaging and often informative.  I said to friends who shared my interest "Somebody should write similar books about men in the land Army."  Well, you did!  Thank you.
Brian Wrynn

Mr. Cornwell,
I have been a fan of yours for about 15 years now, and have read all but three of your books.  So you can imagine my surprise when I happened to be in a grocery store in Kosovo today and stumbled upon the second two books of the Archer's tale trilogy in Albanian translation.  I don't speak a word of Albanian, but I purchased them anyway, thinking it would be an interesting way to start to learn the language.  Now I just need to shop around until I find Arlekini to complete the set.

Jason Oakley

The Bloody Ground - It may be that my copy is a few years old and subsequent publishings have been corrected, but in the 'Historical Note' you wrote that "Close to 23,000 men died in that one day".  I think that you meant that there were 23,000 casualties ( dead, wounded, missing) with about only (it feels terrible to use the term 'only')  4,000 of those having died that day.     It is weird, they are very well written, but I don't enjoy these novels as well as the Sharpe novels.
Steve

Just wanted to let you know, you got a new fan. I honestly disliked reading since I was a child due to it being forced on you. We had to read books (total of 12) for school in Holland and I never enjoyed it. Haven't read a book since school (10 years) and during those years have picked up 2 books and couldn't get past the first 10 pages due to getting bored. Then I bought Azincourt. Couldn't stop reading. After that I started on the stories of Uthred and finished the 1st one and started on the Pale Horseman.

I have a passion for History, and a newly discovered passion for your books. Thanks
Marcel

I have just finished "Death of Kings" and like so many others, cannot wait for the next chapter. In your historical note you mention that you are surprised that our children are taught more about 1066 than Alfred the Great. I know we cannot pin point when the "Making of England" truly began but surely Alfred, his children and grand children must be given the credit for this.....and more time in our school curriculum ?
Maybe to get this important message across to the young........(and old !!!), you could have Peter Jackson round for a cup of tea.......An epic film of Uhtred's story on the scale of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy might do the trick ?
Thank you for bringing the story of England's Making to life.

Woodsy

I wish to pass on my thanks for the pleasure that your novels have brought me over many years. You are only the second author to whom I have ever written. I yearn for a new Sharpe or old English novel although I did not enjoy the American based series nor the latest Fort - just personal taste. I guess I am a little concerned that Uhtred may never win back Bebbanburgh, please get to this, possibly conclusive, book before falling off the perch. More Sharpe is always welcome too. Thanks again for both the entertainment and education
Jon Osborne
Sydney

I love the part in Heretic where Thomas gets excommunicated, and Genevieve tells him that God is in the fire, the sky, and the air, and he wakes and finds her dancing in the lightning.  This is such beautiful writing, and just what one needs to read when one is feeling on the outs.  The soul of mankind and the spirit of Earth is in your writing.
Tamara Sanders

Mr. Cornwell,
I just wanted to say thank you for the time you have spent researching and writing your books.  After reading everything I could find from Patrick O'Brian, my father's old history buddy passed on one of your Sharpe's novels.  (I am a son of a history teacher.)  Needless to say I have now gobbled up everything except the Starbuck series and those are on deck.
I didn't think that I would enjoy the Arthur stories as they seem overdone in our current media, but after reading how you really enjoyed writing them, I gave them a shot.  Wow! They were awesome!  The Archer novels, and The Saxon tales were great.  I want to build a stonehenge in my backyard!  When shooting archery, my friends and I joke about keeping our strings dry.  (This is hard in Ketchikan Alaska as we have 150+inches or rain a year!)
Kenelm is my middle name and reading a couple references to Saint Kenelm was really cool too.
I am a little bummed that I bought most of your books through the ibooks/itunes deal, just because I would like to pass them on and create a cool collection. My bad-I just couldn't wait until the morning to go to the library, so I'd buy and download the next one!  At least I have the collection on me  wherever I go.
Anyway, thanks again, and if you are ever on a cruiseship in Ketchikan, Southeast Alaska, give me a shout and I'll give you and your family a tour of our fish factory/cannery.  I'm the Personnel Director-started as a slimer and worked my way up like Sharpe.  I swear some of these corporate bigwigs buy their positions like the British officers!
Best regards,
Thomas