Dear Mr Cornwell, Like you I grew up in Essex, Maylandsea to be exact. At present I have just started my second year of a history degree, one subject is the construction of England, at present I’m researching the material involved with your saxon chronicles, unfortunately this is giving away future story content(got mixed feelings about that). The one thing I wanted to know is, will you include the battle of Maldon and can you recommend best sources to research, as a historical writer and coming from Essex I have my fingers crossed you might know some good sources ? Kind Regards David Kelly P.s. read Sword Song in 2 days, wow more please