Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell
Born	23 February 1944 (1944-02-23) (age 67) London, England
Occupation	Author
Nationality	English
Genres	Historical fiction
Notable work(s)	Sharpe
Influences C.S. Forester, George McDonald Fraser
Influenced Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow, George R.R. Martin, Angus Donald
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Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe which were adapted into a series of Sharpe television films.

Biography

Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was a Canadian airman, and his mother was English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted and brought up in Thundersley, Essex by the Wiggins family, who were members of the Peculiar People, a strict sect who were pacifists, banned frivolity of all kinds and even medicine. After he left them, he changed his name to his mother's maiden name, Cornwell.

Cornwell was sent away to Monkton Combe School. He attended the University of London, and after graduating, worked as a teacher. He attempted to enlist in the British armed services at least three times, but was rejected on the grounds of myopia.

He then joined the BBC's Nationwide and was promoted to become head of current affairs at BBC Northern Ireland. He then joined Thames Television as editor of Thames News.^[1] He relocated to the United States in 1979 after marrying an American. Unable to get a green Card, he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit. He later became a U.S. citizen.^[2] He currently resides on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

As a child, Cornwell loved the novels of C. S. Forester, chronicling the adventures of fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars, and was surprised to find that there were no such novels following Lord Wellington's campaign on land. Motivated by the need to support himself in the U.S. through writing, Cornwell decided to write such a series. He named his chief protagonist Richard Sharpe, a rifleman involved in most of the major battles of the Peninsular War. Cornwell took the name from rugby player Richard Sharp.^[3][4]

Cornwell wanted to start the series with the Siege of Badajoz but decided instead to start with a couple of "warm-up" novels. These were Sharpe's Eagle and Sharpe's Gold, both published in 1981.^[5] Sharpe's Eagle was picked up by a publisher, and Cornwell got a three-book deal. He went on to tell the story of Badajoz in his third Sharpe novel Sharpe's Company published in 1982.

Cornwell and wife Judy co-wrote a series of novels, published under the pseudonym "Susannah Kells". These were A Crowning Mercy, published in 1983, Fallen Angels in 1984, and Coat of Arms (aka The Aristocrats) in 1986. (Cornwell's strict Protestant upbringing informed the background of A Crowning Mercy, which took place during the English Civil War.) He also published Redcoat, an American Revolutionary War novel set in Philadelphia during its 1777 occupation by the British, in 1987.

After publishing 8 books in his ongoing Sharpe series, Cornwell was approached by a production company interested in adapting them for television. The producers asked him to write a prequel to give them a starting point to the series. They also requested that the story feature a large role for Spanish characters to secure co-funding from Spain. The result was Sharpe’s Rifles, published in 1987 and a series of Sharpe television films starring Sean Bean.^[6]

A series of contemporary thrillers with sailing as a background and common themes followed: Wildtrack published in 1988, Sea Lord (aka Killer's Wake) in 1989, Crackdown in 1990, Stormchild in 1991, and a political thriller called Scoundrel in 1992.

In June 2006, Cornwell was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's 80th Birthday Honours List.^[7]

Azincourt was released in the UK in October 2008. The protagonist is an archer who participates in the Battle of Agincourt, a devastating defeat suffered by the French during the Hundred Years War. In 2009, he released The Burning Land, another of the five Saxon Stories centered on the protagonist Uhtred of Bebbanburg.^[8]

His latest novel entitled The Fort was published on 30 September 2010. It relates to the events of the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. Set in the summer of 1779, it follows a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry backed by three sloops-of-war, which were sent to what is now Castine in the State of Maine. The War of Independence was in its third year and the Scots were the only British troops between Canada and New York. Their orders were to make a garrison that could serve as a safe haven and a naval base. The State of Massachusetts was determined to expel the British and sent a fleet of forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to 'captivate, kill or destroy' the invaders.

Novel series

The Sharpe stories

Main article: Richard Sharpe (fictional character)

Cornwell's best known books feature the adventures of Richard Sharpe, an English soldier during the Napoleonic Wars.

The first 11 books of the Sharpe series (beginning in chronological order with Sharpe's Rifles and ending with Sharpe's Waterloo, published in the US as Waterloo) detail Sharpe's adventures in various Peninsular War campaigns over the course of 6–7 years. Subsequently, Cornwell wrote a prequel quintology – Sharpe's Tiger, Sharpe's Triumph, Sharpe's Fortress, Sharpe's Trafalgar and Sharpe's Prey – depicting Sharpe's adventures under Wellington's command in India, including his hard-won promotion to the officer corps, his return to England and his arrival in the 95th Rifles, and a sequel, Sharpe's Devil, set six years after the end of the wars.

He also wrote Sharpe's Battle, a novel "inserted" into his previous continuity, taking place during the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro. It has been alleged that Cornwell was initially dubious about the casting of Sean Bean for the television adaptations, but if this is true the doubts did not last as he was subsequently so delighted that he dedicated Sharpe's Battle to him, and has admitted that he subtly changed the writing of the character to align with Bean's portrayal.^[9] Since 2003, he has written further "missing adventures" set during the "classic" Peninsular War era.

The following is the correct 'historical' order, although they are all stand alone stories:

#	Title	Publisher	Publication Date
1	Sharpe's Tiger Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799	Harper Collins	1997
The first of Richard Sharpe's Indian adventures, pitting him against the sinister Tippoo Sultan in the siege of Seringapatam, 1799.
2	Sharpe's Triumph Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803	Harper Collins	1998
Sharpe, now a Sergeant, finds himself alongside Sir Arthur Wellesley at the terrifying Battle of Assaye.
3	Sharpe's Fortress Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803	Harper Collins	1998
Sharpe's first story as an officer takes him to the daunting fort of Gawilghur. This is also the last of his Indian adventures.
4	Sharpe's Trafalgar Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805	Harper Collins	2000
Sharpe has to go home from India, and he would have left in 1805 and Cape Trafalgar lies on his way home, so why should he not be there at the right time?
5	Sharpe's Prey Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807	Harper Collins	2001
This tells the tale of one of the most obscure campaigns of the whole of the Napoleonic wars. The Danes had a huge merchant fleet, second only in size to Great Britain's, and to protect it they possessed a formidable navy. But Denmark was a very small country and when, in 1807, the French decide they will invade Denmark and take the fleet for themselves, Britain has to act swiftly. Swiftly, but not particularly justly.
6	Sharpe's Rifles Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809	Harper Collins	1988
The beginning of the Peninsular War (the battles between 1808 and 1814 to expel the French from Portugal and Spain). The Peninsular Campaign occupies most of the Sharpe series and this book begins during the infamous retreat to Corunna.
7	Sharpe's Havoc Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Portugal, Spring 1809	Harper Collins	2003
Sharpe's Havoc is set during the French invasion of Portugal in 1809 and Sir Arthur Wellesley's devastating counter-attack.
8	Sharpe's Eagle Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809	Harper Collins	1981
It tells the tale of the battle of Talavera.
9	Sharpe's Gold Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810	Harper Collins	1981
10	Sharpe's Escape Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign 1811	Harper Collins	2004
It is the late summer of 1810 and the French mount their third and most threatening invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe, with his company of redcoats and riflemen, meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco where, despite a stunning victory, the French are not stopped.
11	Sharpe's Fury Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811	Harper Collins	2006
Sharpe's Fury is based on the real events of the winter of 1811 that led to the extraordinary victory of Barossa.
12	Sharpe's Battle Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811	Harper Collins	1995
The ghastly tale of the battle of Fuentes d'Onoro, a bloody struggle on the Portuguese frontier which deteriorated into a gutter fight in the narrow alleys of a small village.
13	Sharpe's Company Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812	Harper Collins	1982
Tells the story of the horrifying assault on Badajoz in 1812. The British were in a foul mood, they had been given a hard time by the garrison and suspected that the city's Spanish inhabitants were French sympathisers, so when they got inside they went berserk.
14	Sharpe's Sword Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812	Harper Collins	1983
In which Sharpe carries his sword (a 1796 pattern Heavy Cavalry sword, an ill-balanced butcher's blade) to the extraordinary battle outside Salamanca where, to quote an enemy General, Wellington 'destroyed forty thousand Frenchmen in forty minutes'.
15	Sharpe's Skirmish Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tormes, August 1812	Sharpe Appreciation Society	2002
(Short Story) It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the French are planning a raid and Sharpe is in for a fight!
16	Sharpe's Enemy Richard Sharpe and the Defense of Portugal, Christmas 1812	Harper Collins	1984
By 1812 a lot of men had deserted from the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese armies and some of them, too many of them, had banded together in the border mountains where they were led by a renegade Frenchman nicknamed Pot-au-Feu. They formed a semi-military group of bandits and their enemies all agreed on one thing - they had to be crushed. Send for Sharpe.
17	Sharpe's Honour Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813	Harper Collins	1985
Pierre Ducos, the French super-agent, tries to end Sharpe's life and the series.
18	Sharpe's Regiment Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of France, June to November 1813	Harper Collins	1986
Sharpe is sent home to raise soldiers for his regiment, the South Essex, and once in England he runs into an old enemy - Sir Henry Simmerson, once a Colonel of the South Essex and now, what else, a taxman.
19	Sharpe's Christmas Two short stories, 1813	Sharpe Appreciation Society	2003
Sharpe's Christmas contains two short stories, 'Sharpe's Christmas' and 'Sharpe's Ransom'. 'Sharpe's Christmas' is set in 1813, towards the end of the Peninsular War and falls after Sharpe's Regiment. 'Sharpe's Ransom' comes after Sharpe's Waterloo and is set in peacetime.
20	Sharpe's Siege Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814	Harper Collins	1987
Sharpe finds himself stranded, surrounded and with only one very unlikely ally - Captain Cornelius Killick from Marblehead, Massachusetts.
21	Sharpe's Revenge Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814	Harper Collins	1989
This takes place between the end of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign - and Sharpe pursues Ducos to Italy, though not before he's fought in the climactic battle at Toulouse which is Wellington's last victory in the Peninsular War.
22	Sharpe's Waterloo Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June 1815, US Title: Waterloo	Harper Collins	1990
The story of the battle - and Sharpe's part in it.
23	Sharpe's Ransom (short story, 181?, appears in Sharpe's Christmas)	Sharpe Appreciation Society	2003
24	Sharpe's Devil Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821	Harper Collins	1992
Sharpe, at last, meets Napoleon.

The Starbuck Chronicles

Main article: The Starbuck Chronicles

A tetralogy set during the American Civil War. The title character, Nathaniel Starbuck, is a Northerner who has decided to fight for the South in a Virginian regiment, the Faulconer Legion. The last novel to date in the series has been The Bloody Ground, taking place during the Antietam Campaign. Cornwell has said that he plans to write more Starbuck novels, but has not done so yet. On his website Cornwell has recently stated that he is 'thinking' about Starbuck again.

#	Title	Publisher	Date
1	Rebel	Harper Collins	1993
Nathaniel Starbuck stumbles into the Confederate army and finds himself at the first Bull Run.
2	Copperhead	Harper Collins	1994
Takes Nate Starbuck from Ball's Bluff to the bloody campaign in the peninsula, where the unregarded Robert Lee assumes command of the rebel army.
3	Battle Flag	Harper Collins	1995
Starbuck goes back to Bull Run for the second battle.
4	The Bloody Ground	Harper Collins	1996
The horrors of Antietam.

The Warlord Chronicles

Main article: The Warlord Chronicles

A trilogy depicting Cornwell's historical re-creation of Arthurian Britain. The series posits that Post-Roman Britain was a difficult time for the native Britons, being threatened by invasion from the Anglo-Saxons in the East and raids from the Irish in the West. At the same time, they suffered internal power struggles between their petty kingdoms and friction between the old Druidic religion and newly-arrived Christianity.

#	Title	Publisher	Date
1	The Winter King	Penguin Group	1995
After the death of Uther, High King of Britain, the country falls into chaos. Uther's heir is a child, Mordred, and Arthur, his uncle, is named one of the boy's guardians. Arthur has to fight other British kingdoms and the dreadful "Sais" - the Saxons - who are invading Britain.
2	Enemy of God	Penguin Group	1996
At the end of The Winter King Arthur fought the battle that forces unity on the warring British kingdoms and now he sets out to face the real enemy - the Saxons.
3	Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur	Penguin Group	1997
In Excalibur we follow Arthur and Derfel to the battle of Mount Badon and incredible victory. It not only throws the Saxons back, but reunites Arthur and Guinevere. He might hope now to be left alone, to have a time of peace after gaining a great victory, but new enemies arise to destroy all he has achieved.

The Grail Quest novels

Main article: The Grail Quest

A trilogy that deals with a mid-14th century search for the Holy Grail during the Hundred Years' War. An English archer, Thomas of Hookton, becomes drawn into the quest by the actions of a mercenary soldier called "The Harlequin," who murders Thomas's family in his own obsessive search for the Grail. Cornwell was planning at one point to write more books about the main character Thomas of Hookton and said that shortly after finishing Heretic he had "... started another Thomas of Hookton book, then stopped it – mainly because I felt that his story ended in Heretic and I was just trying to get too much from him. Which doesn't mean I won't pick the idea up again sometime in the future." ^[10]

#	Title	Publisher	Date
1	Harlequin US: The Archer's Tale	Harper Collins	2000
Thomas of Hookton leaves his native Dorset to fight against the French in Brittany and, afterwards, at the battle of Crecy in Picardy. It is a tale of longbows and butchery, especially when England's archers swarm into the Norman city of Caen. And over it all, like a dream, hovers the grail which is the epitome of chivalry and Christian decency, qualities which are in desperately short supply as the armies of France and England struggle at the beginning of what will be known as the Hundred Years War.
2	Vagabond	Harper Collins	2002
Thomas of Hookton has been sent back to England to pursue his father's mysterious legacy which hints that the Holy Grail might exist and gets tangled with the Scottish invasion of 1347. He survives that only to discover that various powerful folk in France are pursuing the same quest, a complication that takes Thomas back to Brittany and the brutal fighting about La Roche-Derrien.
3	Heretic	Harper Collins	2003
Thomas of Hookton travels south into Gascony and to a final confrontation with his cousin, Guy Vexille. The novel begins with the fall of Calais, and most of the events occur in the subsequent truce, but for Thomas and his companions there can be no truce, only a vicious small war which ends with them being besieged, not just by enemies intent on finding the grail, but by the Black Death.

The Saxon Stories

Main article: The Saxon Stories

Cornwell's latest series focuses on the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, England during the 9th-century reign of Alfred the Great, his fierce opposition to the Danes and his determination to unite England as one country. According to Cornwell's replies on his website bulletin board, the series will not be a trilogy like his medieval works, but will have 3 or 4 more sequels: "I'm not sure how many there will be – perhaps seven? maybe eight?"^[11]

The latest in the series, titled The Burning Land, was released in Britain on 1 October 2009 and in the United States in January 2010.^[12]

#	Title	Publisher	Date
1	The Last Kingdom	Harper Collins	2004
Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia.
2	The Pale Horseman	Harper Collins	2005
Describes the fateful year in which the Danes capture Alfred's kingdom and drive him as a fugitive into the marshes of Athelney. It seems that Wessex, and England, are destroyed, but Alfred is determined to make one desperate gamble that might save his kingdom.
3	The Lords of the North	Harper Collins	2006
Uhtred, having helped Alfred secure Wessex as an independent Saxon kingdom, returns north in an attempt to find his stepsister. Instead he discovers chaos, civil war and treachery in Northumbria. He takes the side of Guthred, once a slave and now a man who would be king, and in return expects Guthred's help in capturing Dunholm, the lair of the dark Viking lord, Kjartan. There is betrayal, romance and war, and all of it, as usual, based on real events.
4	Sword Song	Harper Collins	2007
Wessex, Alfred's kingdom, has survived the great Viking assaults and now, with Uhtred as a leader, the West Saxon forces begin the campaigns of conquest that will end with a new kingdom called England.
5	The Burning Land	Harper Collins	2009
Tells of the final assaults on Alfred's Wessex.
6	Death of Kings	Harper Collins	October 2011
Tells of the years which followed the death of Alfred the Great as two men struggle to inherit the crown of Wessex. Uhtred has to contend with betrayal, treachery and the largest army the Danes have yet assembled to conquer Wessex, all brought to a climax in a winter battle fought in the fens of East Anglia.

The Thrillers

Cornwell's thriller series are modern mysteries, all with sailing themes. He is a traditional sailor and enjoys sailing his Cornish Crabber by the name of "Royalist." His thorough knowledge of sailing and popular skills with writing combine in great novels for the nautically obsessed. According to Cornwell's website, there may be no additions to the series: "I enjoyed writing the thrillers, but suspect I am happier writing historical novels. I'm always delighted when people want more of the sailing books, but I'm not planning on writing any more, at least not now - but who knows? perhaps when I retire."^[13]

Title	Publisher	Date
Wildtrack	Penguin Group	1988
In which a crippled veteran of the Falkland's War sails into the north Atlantic to discover whether a famous television presenter is a murderer.
Sea Lord US: Killer's Wake	Penguin Group	1989
An eccentric and reluctant aristocrat just wants to be left alone to be a sea-gypsy, but a theft from his ancestral home hauls him back to Britain and mayhem.
Crackdown	Penguin Group	1990
A convalescent cruise in the Bahamas turns murderous with cocaine.
Stormchild	Penguin Group	1991
Can our hero save the world from the environmentalists? Someone has to.
Scoundrel	Penguin Group	1992
A man goes home to Cape Cod to escape a world of European treachery and his involvement with the Provisional IRA. Others have different plans for him.

Other Standalone Novels

Title	Publisher	Date
Redcoat	Michael Joseph Ltd.	1987
Redcoat is the story of the Valley Forge winter during the American Revolution - told from the redcoat's point of view.
Stonehenge	Harper Collins	1999
A story of love, rivalry, treachery and a great mysterious temple.
Gallows Thief	Harper Collins	2001
Gallows Thief is a detective story, set in Regency London, a time when there were no detectives as such. There was a very busy gallows, however. This was a period when the English and Welsh gallows were at their busiest and, very occasionally, the government appointed an 'Investigator' to look into a conviction.
Azincourt US: Agincourt	Harper Collins	2008
Azincourt is the tale of Nicholas Hook, an archer, who begins the novel by joining the garrison of Soissons, a city whose patron saints were Crispin and Crispinian. What happened at Soissons shocked all Christendom, but in the following year, on the feast day of Crispin and Crispinian, Hook finds himself in that small army trapped at Azincourt. The novel is the story of the archers who helped win a battle that has entered legend, but in truth is a tale, as Sir John Keegan says, 'of slaughter-yard behaviour and outright atrocity'.
The Fort	Harper Collins	2010
The Fort is about the Penobscot Expedition of 1779. A small British garrison had been established in what is now Maine (and was then part of Massachusetts), and the rebel government in Boston was determined to expel that garrison. Seven hundred British redcoats were in an unfinished fort, Fort George, and the harbour beneath the fort was protected by three sloops-of-war. Against this the State of Massachusetts sent an army of around 900 men and a fleet of 42 ships, half of which were warships.

Bibliography

Title	Year	Notes
1981	Sharpe's Eagle
1981	Sharpe's Gold
1982	Sharpe's Company
1983	Sharpe's Sword
1983	Sharpe's Enemy
1983	A Crowning Mercy	Under the pseudonym Susannah Kells
1984	Fallen Angels	Under the pseudonym Susannah Kells
1985	Sharpe's Honour
1986	Sharpe's Regiment
1986	Coat of Arms	aka The Aristocrats, under the pseudonym Susannah Kells
1987	Sharpe's Siege
1987	Redcoat
1988	Sharpe's Rifles
1988	Wildtrack
1989	Sharpe's Revenge
1989	Sea Lord	aka Killer's Wake
1990	Sharpe's Waterloo
1990	Crackdown
1991	Stormchild
1992	Sharpe's Devil
1992	Scoundrel
1993	Rebel
1994	Copperhead
1995	Sharpe's Battle
1995	Battle Flag
1995	The Winter King
1996	The Bloody Ground
1996	Enemy of God
1997	Sharpe's Tiger
1997	Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
1998	Sharpe's Triumph
1999	Sharpe's Fortress
1999	Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC
2000	Harlequin	aka The Archer's Tale
2001	Sharpe's Trafalgar
2001	Gallows Thief
2002	Sharpe's Prey
2002	Sharpe's Skirmish
2002	Vagabond
2003	Sharpe's Havoc
2003	Sharpe's Christmas	Short story
2003	Heretic
2004	Sharpe's Escape
2004	The Last Kingdom
2005	The Pale Horseman
2006	Sharpe's Fury
2006	The Lords of the North
2007	Sword Song
2008	Azincourt	Agincourt in U.S.A.
2009	The Burning Land
2010	The Fort
2011	Death of Kings

See also

Novels portal

• Sharpe (TV Series)
• Faulconer County

References

1. ^ "Cornwell Biography". Bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com. http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/bn/board/message?board.id=BernardCornwell&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=63. Retrieved 2011-09-12. 
2. ^ "Interview with Bernard Cornwell". Radio.nationalreview.com. 2009-01-21. http://radio.nationalreview.com/betweenthecovers/post/?q=MWVjYzVlMWI4ODIyYmNmNzUwN2EyYzYxNDUxYzU5ZmQ=. Retrieved 2011-09-12. 
3. ^ "The Story of Sharpe". Uktv.co.uk. http://uktv.co.uk/yesterday/item/aid/538502. Retrieved 2011-09-12. 
4. ^ "A word from Bernard Cornwell". Southessex.co.uk. 2002-09-29. http://www.southessex.co.uk/bernard/bcintro.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-12. 
5. ^ Cornwell, Bernard (1994). Sharpe's Eagle. London: HarperCollins Publishers. pp. vi–vii. ISBN 978-0-00-780509-9. 
6. ^ Cornwell, Bernard (1994). Sharpe's Rifles. London: HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 7–9. ISBN 978-0-00-779651-9. 
7. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58014. p. 24. 17 June 2006.
8. ^ "Bulletin Board". Bernardcornwell.net. 2011-08-30. http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index_print.cfm?page=7. Retrieved 2011-09-12. 
9. ^ "Richard Sharpe bio". The South Essex. http://www.southessex.co.uk/bios/richardsharpe.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-22. 
10. ^ Cornwell, Bernard. "Cornwell's comment on Heretic". Author's Official Site. http://bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm?page=11. Retrieved 2007-10-02. 
11. ^ Cornwell, Bernard. "Cornwell's comments against a trilogy (but you have to "search" for the specific dialogue)". BernardCornwell.net. http://bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm?page=11. Retrieved 2007-10-02. 
12. ^ "The Saxon Stories". bernardcornwell.net. http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2.cfm?page=1&seriesid=10. Retrieved 2009-04-30. 
13. ^ "The Author's Official Site - Sharpe Books dot com". Bernard Cornwell. http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2.cfm?page=1&seriesid=3. Retrieved 2011-09-12. 

External links

• Author's official site
• Bernard Cornwell interview on BookBanter
• Christopher Seufert interviews Bernard Cornwell
• Interview, chapter excerpts and Cornwell essay Stonehenge (Official publisher web page)
• "Line of Battle" interviews Bernard Cornwell
• Audio interview with Bernard Cornwell at National Review Online

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