Hello Mr Cornwell!

Wow, it’s an honour to be able to contact you….i have read all of your Sharpe books when I was a lad, great reading for a teenager. I think I still have them sitting in a barn somewhere! I’m only writing now because I’ve just binge watched the whole last kingdom saga on Netflix and I was very pleased to find out there will be more! I can’t help noticing your propensity towards violent underdogs in your books …it makes for compelling stories, ones that we all enjoy it seems. If I might be so bold, could I ask you if your characters are created consciously in this mold? Do you sit down before you create a series with a large empty framework which contains certain traits and character arcs? Or is it purely coincidental? It’s fascinating how we all take such pleasure in a character succeeding, projecting our own such desire. Also… how about flaming trebuchet projectiles?! Did the saxons not have these?? ;)

I thank you for you written works…they brought and still bring pleasure to my life.

Paul Thomas