Dear Mr Cornwell, Thank you for writing such a fascinating series of historical novels. I am currently enjoying the “Death of Kings”. As an amateur historian its good to see pre-1066 “British” history being addressed by a professional novelist. Though you do manipulate some of the historical facts that does not affect the overall historicity. One of your schwarzcharacters, Haesten, was a very well known Danish warlord, famous for his campaigns across the Mediterranean and around France before he landed in Wessex and thereby a much more powerful personality than in your tales. Despite that and poor Aethelred of Mercia getting faintpraised the series has been much fun to read as are your other novels, including the Sharpe series. I look forward to reading your next Saxon novel and any others based on early English history.

Michael