Dear Mr Cornwell,

I have been following your Saxon series from pretty much the first publication of “The Last Kingdom”, and I have loved reading history unfold through your very witty and personalised form of writing. However, when are you going to end this story? I was extremely disappointed with your most recent addition “The Pagan Lord”, which while maintaining a great deal of the humour of the previous books was seriously lacking in real plot of character development. Why did you publish what is basically a complete repetition of the past three books in the series, but condensed? Why did you not wait until there was more material to fill out the story and drive it to its ultimate conclusion? I feel very much that you have spun this concept out beyond its original proportions and the depth and scope of the writing is suffering as a consequence.

kind regards,

Louise Hemfrey