Dear Mr. Cornwell, I’ve been a huge fan of yours since I picked up Sharpe’s Tiger back in 2001. I admire your writing style as it puts me in the period in which you write with more vivid description than any history book can offer, as well as the creative license which makes it a more thrilling story. For a while I strictly read Sharpe, but eventually read the Saxon stories, then the Grail Quest and recently finished the Warlord Trilogy and the latter I find the most intriguing of all. I’m a Scotsman by birth and Canadian by bureaucracy and location but as a whole I’ve always admired Britain as a nation and her origins in Pre-Roman, Roman and Post-Roman times and, though the Saxon stories provide an insight into the beginnings of the country we now know as England, the Warlord trilogy takes me right to the beginning of Saxon Britain. I’ve come to admire this period of mysticism, violence, uncertainty and adventure above any other even to the point of returning to Britain to go on my own fact finding vacation. Your work has inspired this venture and I thank you for it. What I would like to know is if you can offer my any advice on where to go when I get home? Where gave you the most insight into the period? Thank you for your time. Sincerely, David McColl