Hello Mr Cornwell!

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with your books for a while now, on account of the virulent anti-Christianity in your medieval novels contrasting with your fascinating ideas and take on events, but I’ve just started the Grail Quest series and I’m loving it. It’s refreshing to read one of your books where none of the priests are rapists, pedophiles, cowards, worse hypocrites than the rest of the characters, some combination of the above, and entirely unsympathetic to boot (except for the token priest who is an ally of the protagonist and pays only lip service to Christian ideals). I hope that’s a sign of things to come with any future novels set in the Middle Ages, and I’m really looking forward to the rest of the Grail Quest novels.

(I’m an atheist, but the “dirty, fanatical, cowardly, evil Christian vs brave, virile, noble pagan” aspect of the Warlord Chronicles really wore thing after a while and probably spoiled me for Azincourt and the Saxon Stories (which I barely started before stopping in annoyance)).

Have you got any plans for writing more books set in the HYW or High/Late Middle Ages? I’m surprised you haven’t written anything about Sir Thomas Gray!

Jonathan