Arthurian literature may be a worldwide cottage industry, but Cornwell, author of the Sharpe series of historical military adventures (Sharpe's Battle, etc.) stands out from the crowd with this ...

The traditional military adventure yarn remains alive and well in the capable hands of Cornwell, as his up-from-the-ranks hero, Richard Sharpe, though stuck in the lowly role of regimental ...

BERNARD CORNWELL, 73, is the author of the Sharpe novels which were made into a TV series starring Sean Bean. His books about Saxon England, The Last Kingdom, have also been adapted for television.

Bernard Cornwell, one of the world’s bestselling historical novelists, author of more than 50 books with 25 million sales around the world, recently came out with 'Sharpe's Assassin' - the book 21 in ...

Thirty-five years after first tackling the Napoleonic Wars with the Sharpe series that made his name, Bernard Cornwell is returning to the era for his non-fiction début. He is going straight to the ...

Born in 1944, Cornwell--who now lives in the United States with his American wife--was recently reunited with his natural father, and also with his mother, who gave him up for adoption nearly 60 years ...

When you begin a new book, what comes first, plot or characters? 95 per cent of a book is finding a plot. I never know what’s going to happen and for me, one of the joys of writing is finding out what ...

“Outsider. Hero. Rogue. And the one man you want on your side.” That’s how global best-selling author Bernard Cornwell’s most famous hero, Richard Sharpe, is described as he resurfaces for the first ...

Praise be to Saint Oswald, Lord Uhtred has finally reached Sharpe status. For more than three decades English expatriate Bernard Cornwell has been one of our finest writers of historical fiction. His ...

When it comes to fictional dramas based on actual history, they’ve currently got the genre all sewn up. George R R Martin has become a multi-millionaire thanks to writing the books which created HBO’s ...

Author Bernard Cornwell has revealed he is not a fan of Game of Thrones. Cornwell's historical Saxon novels have been turned into eight-part BBC2 drama series The Last Kingdom and have drawn ...