Hi Mr Cornwell

I absolutely adore your books, they are amazing. Particularly Derfel, but that is not what I contacted you to mention. I have been playing a video game called Mount and Blade warband: Viking conquest. Which is a game where you can roam and do whatever you want in Dark ages UK in tandem with your Saxon stories which I have of course read. Being quite an obsessive in history, I played it half to death, and immediately went to find Alfred. I noticed that in his entourage was a young noble called Uhtred that fit the description perfectly of your own character by the same name. Thus I promptly found out about the developers of the game and realised that they are big fans. You have big fans all over the world, in every walk of life. I just wanted to mention this.

Your most zealous fan.

Robert.