Dear Mr Cornwell I cannot describe the many hours of pleasure your books have given me over the past 12 years or so. I think I have read every book published in your name. As someone with a keen interest in the American Civil War I rate the Starbuck Chronicles as some of the best novels written about that war and look foward to the day that you return to Starbuck. However, the question I would like to ask is whatever happened to the Starbuck novel that was due to be published towards the beginning of 1999? I remember Amazon and a number of other booksellers taking advance orders for Rebel V towards the end of 1998 then the novel did not appear. John Pilkington

Dear Mr Cornwell. I have like many others enjoyed and still wait eagerly for your books. I would like to know if you will be writing any more books in the Starbuck Chronicles series as it seems to me as if there should be more. His life, although fictional, seem unfinished. Many thanks for your time. Thomas Ravensdale

huge fan. reading Sharpe’s Escape now. will you ever finish the Starbuck chronicles? Mike Cipolla