I hope to find you in good health Mr Cornwell?

I am looking forward to Uhtred’s final tale which is due to come out this year. I want to thank you for writing these novels, I am a Northumbrian born and bred and we (and our history) are often forgotten up in this part of the World.

I hope in this final novel you will do right by Uhtred and give him the sword death that every warrior craves. Hopefully at the hands of his apprentice and protégé Æthelstan as a reward for his service and sacrifice to Wessex and England. Uhtred’s death in this manner would Symbolise the death of Paganism in a (mostly) Christian Kingdom. However I am most likely way off the mark.

You have commented that you intend to return and finish Sharpe’s story. I hope with ending of 2 Era’s (Sharpe and Uhtred) that you do not intend to hang up your writer’s quill?

Have you/do you entertain the prospect of returning to the troublesome time of the dark ages? You have previously state you are a descendant of Uhtred’s and I remember reading that there had been an Uhtred, Uhtredson or Oughtred at the heart of many conflicts and political events through English history. Would you consider writing a novel or novels about Uhtred’s descendants throughout the chaotic years after Uhtred’s death and 1066 and after?

Or maybe a novel about Uhtred’s ancestor Ida and him taking Din Guarie, maybe even the forging of the Saxon Kingdoms?

Just food for thought…

Kurt Beck