Dear Mr Cornwell >From an early age I was fascinated by the Arthur Legends and found your interpretation one of the most original of all. A question I would like to ask you is what is your opinion on the King Arthur Movies ( the one that starred Clive Owen ) as a roman cavalry officer with his Selmation Knights )? As well as a more recent one called the Last Legion which toys with the idea of Excalibur being the sword of Julius Caesar carried to Britain by the last surviving descendant of Caesar at the time of the fall of the Roman Empire?

One final comment: as a Christian and student of Cristian Theology I want to commend you for your accurate account of Christianity of the dark ages in the Warlord Chronicles. I found myself at times wanting to urge Derfel to strangle Sansum as I realize that not only did his kind of Christianity was more a tool to gain power and is one on the reasons that Christianity is sometimes confused as a religion of fear and guilt rather than of grace and love I am interested in your opinion on this matter and what prompted you to the use of the theme of Christianity in the Warlord Chronicles ? Regards Petrus Otto Stellenbosch South- Africa