Dear Mr Cornwell, I have written to you on a couple of occasions and have always been pleased with your prompt response and answers to any queries raised so thanks for that. I would just love to say how amazing and insightful your views are of the old religions in great Britain; and as a Part time pagan I immediately identify with the views and beliefs your characters had. particularly the Arthurian “pagans” It fascinates me that such ritual and superstitions still live on in our everyday lives, and that No body seems to realise it. Ie When we say and often do “touch wood” when hoping for a good outcome and wish to avoid tempting fate. Or that we still throw money into a well or fountain echoing the sacrificial and ritualistic offerings of our venerable Ancestors. (who i think understood the world much more than we do now) Also Halloween (Samhain) still being a huge thing with people dressing up as ghosts, i wonder do many people realise that they are re enacting an ancient ritual thousands of years old.. (i still leave out a small offering for the ancestors!) Its nice to see a respect and strong presence of our ancient beliefs in your amazing novels. so I’ll just say blessed be and thanx!

James Shoebridge