Dear Bernard Cornwell, I write to say thank you for your so excellent books. I am disabled now after years working underground, I started in South Crofty tin mine Cornwall and finished in Sierra Leone some years back. Reading your books has lifted me from the disabled thing to the Saxon world and that of Arthur, to India with Sharpe and France with Thomas Hookton. Thank you for all that imagination so excellently portrayed in your thrilling work. I had thought at one time that working 3ooo feet down in the sweltering dark was the most exciting thing I had ever done, not so! The Saxon chronicles held me thrilled until I had read them all, and your books decorate my bookshelf. All I can say is simply, Thank you. Clies Andrews Stevens