Dear mr. Cornwell I’ m very happy to give you my congratulations: you’ re my favourite writer! So a little question: I’ve read Stonehenge and the first and second Arthur book and I’ve noticed Saban is similiar to Derfel: not a great hero but a little boat in the sea of love: each one has a woman that he loves “like you can love a free eagle” and a real “ordinary” love. Is this theme autobiographic? Thanks Giuseppe Russo from Naples

Here I am again Mr Cornwell (I just hope I’m not becoming invading…), here to thank you for your answer, it means so much to me…thank you again! However I wanted to start discussing about some points of your works, even if I consider it all just one. I read just what they have already published here in Italy (which I think is not very much…) even if I’m waiting to read “Vagabond” and another one about Sharpe(don’t know the original title of the book…). Well, first of all, before we start going on in what I hope is going to be a good conversation between two people with similar interests, I have to know if my basic theory is correct, so can you tell me if it’s true that Saban, Derfel, Thomas and Sharpe are the same person? The same person throughout time but in the the same place with the same starting point (Saban is the only one who is quite grown up when he gets to the same starting point of the other ones but maybe it is this that will catch him unprepared and will make then him what we can call a prevaricated loser, the best one among the losers but a slave among the free ones). Italo