Mr. Cornwell: I have enjoyed your Arthurian series and began reading the Last Kingdom. While reading, I mentioned to my wife that I should try writing my family history – as a novel as the early history is lost as to details. Then in reading your Acknowledgements, I noted you are writing this series in the same manner. I am descended from Haakon, Earl of Lade (now Trondheim. the family has a collateral relationship with Canute and migrated to Normandy – where your folks and mine met on the fields of Hasting. Now in reading this series, I feel like I am reading news articles of the ‘other side’. Very interesting and most intriguing. I will follow your series with great interest. Keep the works coming!!! Dr. Ladd