Hello, Mr. Cornwell. I am currently in the thick of THE LAST KINGDOM (80 pages to go!) and absolutely loving it! I understand there will be a sequel, and I wondered when it might be scheduled to come out and what its working title is, if that can be divulged. I also wondered whether you might be doing a book tour for TLK in the US sometime in the near future. I live in New York, and I would love the chance to go to a reading/book signing, if one might be on the horizon. One comment about TLK in the meantime: I’ve been surprised at the ease with which Uhtred is able to switch allegiances between the Danes and the English. Occasionally he makes a comment about this, but overall, he doesn’t seem too troubled by the fact of his divided loyalties. The one exception seems to be his feelings about Ragnar, which are constant and unsullied. How is it that he can go back and forth between the two camps and first kill the English, then the Danes (for whom he has a professed fondness and preference!) with apparently equal sword joy, as he would put it? Can you give me some insight into what makes him tick? I’ve read your Arthur trilogy, STONEHENGE, and the three GRAIL QUEST books, and I thought all of them were great. But I think this is the best thing you’ve written since THE WARLORD CHRONICLES, which remains my very favorite. Renee Tone