Dear Mr Cornwell
I have just read again, for perhaps the 30th time in the last 20 years , the warlord chronicles I will never fail to be moved by the image of Arthur riding to the rescue of poor, young, doomed Derfel with shield blazing like the sun.
Anyway, this is just a brief note to say thank you for the endless hours of escapism your books lend me, from the wild coasts Chili to the baked iberian peninsula and beyond. Most particularly, and selfishly on my part, I now help farmers and landowners to look after the sites that you have brought so vividly to life. I always thought I had an imagination that could recreate the majesty and horror of these places but it is wildly surpassed by your wonderfully researched and beautifully described imagining of their history.
It’s all great, and Sharpe is the most wonderful viewing and reading but most of all, and back to the warlord chronicles. . In my opinion your finest work, in the finest tradition of storytelling, like a forgotten book of the mabinogeon. A trilogy that still holds me spellbound with childlike wonder.
Thank you
Dan Bashford