Dear Mr.Cornwell, I chanced about ‘Vagabond’, wanted more, and drained amazon, as our bookstores keep only small stores of english books. I read, so far, several of the’Sharpe’ series, looking forward to more. ‘Gallow’s Thief’ was excellent, Rider Sandman certainly has potential, as others have remarked. I am currently ‘living’ in ‘Heretic’,and found one the few flaws that I could detect in your books so far:i.e.,making a longbow out of a green yew sapling, painting or laquering the bow to keep the sap in. UH-no. yew for longbows was cut only in winter, when the sap was down, then seasoned, after a rough shaping, the steps towards the final bow being made in a time schedule of 3 to 4 years, with sometimes a year between steps. I am not an archer, but an historically interested layman, but I bet no archer would have touched Thomas’ concoction.Truly the devil’s work. don’t take me for a pedantic stickler, though, I greatly appreciate your generally thorough research ,the drawing of the characters as children of their, rather than our time,and especially the fighting scenes are so vivid, that they truly make one glad NOT to be there. Putting aside one of the rules you understandably (I am a lawyer)made, I could imagine reading a series about an Elizabethan pirate of your hand to be very enjoyable. Kind regards, Christian May

Mr. Cornwell, My parents and I love your work. They have read many of your books and I have read the Grail Quest series. From this series comes my question; In the third book, Heretic, Thomas gets a new bow. The thing about this is that he doesn’t season the wood. I was wondering if you could provide me with some information on this because my father has been making his own bows for about 35 years now. Thank you for your time and keep up the good work. Andy