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كورنويل" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cornwell" title="Bernard Cornwell – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Bernard Cornwell" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB" title="バーナード・コーンウェル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="バーナード・コーンウェル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cornwell" 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/><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Bernard_Cornwell.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cornwell in 2013"><img alt="Cornwell in 2013" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Bernard_Cornwell.jpg/220px-Bernard_Cornwell.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Bernard_Cornwell.jpg/330px-Bernard_Cornwell.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Bernard_Cornwell.jpg/440px-Bernard_Cornwell.jpg 2x" data-file-width="948" 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non-fiction">historical non-fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories" title="The Saxon Stories">The Saxon Stories</a><br /></i> <a href="/wiki/Sharpe_(novel_series)" title="Sharpe (novel series)">Sharpe</a><br /><i><a href="/wiki/The_Warlord_Chronicles" title="The Warlord Chronicles">The Warlord Chronicles</a></i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bernardcornwell.net/">www<wbr />.bernardcornwell<wbr />.net</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bernard Cornwell</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></span></span> (born 23 February 1944) is a British-American author of <a href="/wiki/Historical_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical novel">historical novels</a> and a history of the <a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterloo Campaign">Waterloo Campaign</a>. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> rifleman <a href="/wiki/Sharpe_(novel_series)" title="Sharpe (novel series)">Richard Sharpe</a>. He has also written <i><a href="/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories" title="The Saxon Stories">The Saxon Stories</a></i>, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England. </p><p>He has written historical novels primarily based on English history, in five series, and one series of contemporary thriller novels. A feature of his historical novels is an end note on how they match or differ from history, and what one might see at the modern sites of the events described. He wrote a nonfiction book on the battle of Waterloo, in addition to the fictional story of the famous battle in the Sharpe series. Three of the historical novel series have been adapted for television: the <a href="/wiki/Sharpe_(TV_series)" title="Sharpe (TV series)"><i>Sharpe</i> television series</a> by ITV, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Kingdom_(TV_series)" title="The Last Kingdom (TV series)">The Last Kingdom</a></i> by BBC and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Winter_King_(TV_series)" title="The Winter King (TV series)">The Winter King</a></i> for MGM+. He lives in the US with his wife, alternating between <a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod" title="Cape Cod">Cape Cod</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-grdn_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grdn-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was Canadian airman William Oughtred<sup id="cite_ref-grdn_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grdn-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his mother was Englishwoman Dorothy Cornwell, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Auxiliary_Air_Force" title="Women's Auxiliary Air Force">Women's Auxiliary Air Force</a>. He was adopted and brought up in <a href="/wiki/Thundersley" title="Thundersley">Thundersley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, by the Wiggins family; they were members of the <a href="/wiki/Peculiar_People" title="Peculiar People">Peculiar People</a>, a strict sect of <a href="/wiki/Pacifist" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacifist">pacifists</a> who banned <a href="/wiki/Frivolity" class="mw-redirect" title="Frivolity">frivolity</a> of all kinds, and even medicine up to 1930. Reacting to being raised by <a href="/wiki/Christian_Fundamentalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Fundamentalist">Christian Fundamentalists</a>, he grew up rejecting all religions and became an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his adoptive father died, he changed his last name by <a href="/wiki/Deed_poll" title="Deed poll">deed poll</a> from Wiggins to Cornwell, his birth mother's maiden name. Prior to that, he had used Bernard Cornwell as a pen name.<sup id="cite_ref-Harnden_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He met his father for the first time when he was 58, after telling a journalist on a book tour, "what I wanted to see in <a href="/wiki/Vancouver" title="Vancouver">Vancouver</a> was my real father."<sup id="cite_ref-grdn_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grdn-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There he met his half-siblings, with whom he shares many traits, and learned his <a href="/wiki/Genealogy" title="Genealogy">genealogy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Harnden_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He believes he is a descendant of <a href="/wiki/Uhtred_the_Bold" class="mw-redirect" title="Uhtred the Bold">Uhtred the Bold</a>, upon whom he partly based the <a href="/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories" title="The Saxon Stories">Saxon Stories</a> book series.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cornwell was sent to <a href="/wiki/Monkton_Combe_School" title="Monkton Combe School">Monkton Combe School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a>. He read history at <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> between 1963 and 1966<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and worked as a teacher after graduating. He attempted to enlist in the British armed services at least three times but was rejected on the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Myopia" title="Myopia">myopia</a>. </p><p>Following his work as a teacher, Cornwell joined the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Nationwide_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationwide (TV series)">Nationwide</a> and was later promoted to head of current affairs at BBC Northern Ireland. He then joined <a href="/wiki/Thames_Television" title="Thames Television">Thames Television</a> as editor of <i><a href="/wiki/Thames_News" title="Thames News">Thames News</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His first marriage ended in divorce in the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-Harnden_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He met his second wife, Judy, in 1978 in Edinburgh while he was working for BBC Northern Ireland; she was a travel agent from the US and the mother of three children from a previous marriage. He relocated to the United States in 1979 after marrying her. He was unable to get a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Permanent_Resident_Card" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Permanent Resident Card">United States Permanent Resident Card</a> (green card), so he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit.<sup id="cite_ref-grdn_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grdn-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later became an American citizen.<sup id="cite_ref-Harnden_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a child, Cornwell loved the novels of <a href="/wiki/C._S._Forester" title="C. S. Forester">C. S. Forester</a> which chronicled the adventures of fictional British naval officer <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower" title="Horatio Hornblower">Horatio Hornblower</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>. He was surprised to find that there were no army counterparts, so he wrote such a series himself—further motivated by the need to support himself through writing. As his chief protagonist he created a rifleman involved in most of the major battles of the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>, taking the character's name from rugby player <a href="/wiki/Richard_Sharp_(rugby_union)" title="Richard Sharp (rugby union)">Richard Sharp</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cornwell originally planned to start the series with the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Badajoz_(1812)" title="Siege of Badajoz (1812)">Siege of Badajoz</a> but decided instead to begin with a couple of "warm-up" novels. These were <i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Eagle" title="Sharpe's Eagle">Sharpe's Eagle</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Gold" title="Sharpe's Gold">Sharpe's Gold</a></i>, both published in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-sharpesEagle_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sharpesEagle-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He went on to tell the story of Badajoz in <i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Company" title="Sharpe's Company">Sharpe's Company</a></i> published in 1982. He had a seven-book deal with his publisher. </p><p>Cornwell and wife Judy co-wrote a series of novels published under the pseudonym "Susannah Kells": <i>A Crowning Mercy</i> published in 1983, <i>Fallen Angels</i> in 1984, and <i>Coat of Arms</i> (aka <i>The Aristocrats</i>) in 1986. Cornwell's strict <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> upbringing forms the background of <i>A Crowning Mercy</i>, which takes place during the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>. He also published <i>Redcoat</i> in 1987, an <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> novel set in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> during its 1777 occupation by the British. </p><p>Cornwell was approached by a production company interested in making television adaptations of the first eight books of his Sharpe series. They asked him to write a background novel to give them a starting point to the series and also requested that the story featured a substantial role for Spanish characters in order to secure co-funding from Spain. The result was <i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Rifles" title="Sharpe's Rifles">Sharpe's Rifles</a></i>, published in 1987 and set in the period of the English retreat at <a href="/wiki/A_Coru%C3%B1a" title="A Coruña">A Coruña</a>. It resulted in a series of <a href="/wiki/Sharpe_(TV_series)" title="Sharpe (TV series)">Sharpe television films</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Sean_Bean" title="Sean Bean">Sean Bean</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sharpesRifles_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sharpesRifles-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This was followed by a series of modern thrillers with sailing as a background and common themes: <i>Wildtrack</i> published in 1988, <i>Sea Lord</i> (or <i>Killer's Wake</i>) in 1989, <i>Crackdown</i> in 1990, <i>Stormchild</i> in 1991, and the political thriller <i><a href="/wiki/Scoundrel_(suspense_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scoundrel (suspense novel)">Scoundrel</a></i> in 1992. </p><p>Cornwell wrote two books a year for a long time, slowing to one per year in his sixties.<sup id="cite_ref-Harnden_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His idea of historical fiction is of presenting a "big story" in historical events and a "little story" in fictional plot. <a href="/wiki/Patrick_O%27Brian" title="Patrick O'Brian">Patrick O'Brian</a>, who wrote the <a href="/wiki/Aubrey-Maturin_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Aubrey-Maturin series">Aubrey-Maturin series</a> of historical adventures set in the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_era" title="Napoleonic era">Napoleonic era</a>, said that there was "too much plot, not enough lifestyle" in the novels of Cornwell and <a href="/wiki/C._S._Forester" title="C. S. Forester">C. S. Forester</a>. Cornwell took that as a compliment and an accurate appraisal of the difference between the style of O'Brian and his own, while appreciating the association with Forester.<sup id="cite_ref-Harnden_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the success of the Sharpe series, Cornwell began to write about other periods and historical events in English and American history, both in series and in single novels. <i><a href="/wiki/Azincourt_(novel)" title="Azincourt (novel)">Azincourt</a></i> was released in the UK in October 2008. The protagonist is an archer who participates in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt" title="Battle of Agincourt">Battle of Agincourt</a>, a devastating defeat suffered by the French during the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>. In 2004, he released <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Kingdom" title="The Last Kingdom">The Last Kingdom</a></i>, beginning the Saxon Stories centered on protagonist Uhtred of Bebbanburg and telling how the nation of England began forming under King Alfred the Great. He realised that few in England knew how England began, unlike Americans who have a clear date for their nation's beginning—so this became his "big story". His own ancestral roots gave him the "little story" in the protagonist Uhtred.<sup id="cite_ref-Harnden_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Emerson_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Emerson-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fort_(novel)" title="The Fort (novel)">The Fort</a></i>, published in 2010, is another of Cornwell's stand-alone novels. It tells of the <a href="/wiki/Penobscot_Expedition" title="Penobscot Expedition">Penobscot Expedition</a> of 1779 during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. </p><p>Bernard Cornwell has been extremely successful in his writing career, selling 30 million books by 2015 throughout the various series and individual novels, and he continues to write new novels.<sup id="cite_ref-grdn_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grdn-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cornwell was appointed an <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">Officer of the Order of the British Empire</a> (OBE) in the <a href="/wiki/2006_Birthday_Honours" title="2006 Birthday Honours">2006 Birthday Honours</a> for services to literature and television production.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Novel_series">Novel series</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Novel series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sharpe_stories">Sharpe stories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Sharpe stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_(fictional_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Sharpe (fictional character)">Richard Sharpe (fictional character)</a></div> <p>Cornwell's first series of historical novels features the adventures of Richard Sharpe, an English soldier during the Napoleonic Wars, in particular the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Peninsular Wars">Peninsular Wars</a> once <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Arthur Wellesley</a> was sent to lead the campaign against Napoleon's forces on the Iberian Peninsula. The first 11 books of the Sharpe series began with <i>Sharpe's Rifles</i> and ended with <i>Sharpe's Waterloo</i>, published in the US as <i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Waterloo</a></i>. These detail Sharpe's adventures in various <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a> campaigns over the course of seven years. Subsequently, Cornwell wrote <i>Sharpe's Tiger</i>, <i>Sharpe's Triumph</i>, <i>Sharpe's Fortress</i>, <i>Sharpe's Trafalgar</i>, and <i>Sharpe's Prey</i>, depicting Sharpe's earlier adventures under Wellington's command in India, including his hard-won promotion to the officer corps, his return to Britain, and his arrival in the 95th Rifles; he also wrote the sequel <i>Sharpe's Devil</i>, set six years after the end of the wars. Since 2003, he has written further "missing adventures" set during the Peninsular War era, based on major battles of that long campaign, for a total of 22 novels in this series. The Sharpe Appreciation Society has also published three short stories by Cornwell: "<a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Skirmish" title="Sharpe's Skirmish">Sharpe's Skirmish</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Christmas" title="Sharpe's Christmas">Sharpe's Christmas</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Ransom" title="Sharpe's Ransom">Sharpe's Ransom</a>". </p><p>Cornwell mentions in notes at the end of the Sharpe series that he was initially dubious about the casting of Sean Bean for the television adaptations, but that the doubts did not last and he was subsequently so delighted that he dedicated <i>Sharpe's Battle</i> to him. He has admitted that he subtly changed the writing of the character to align with Bean's portrayal as now he "could not imagine Sharpe as anyone else". One of Cornwell's initial misgivings about Bean was that he did not physically resemble the black-haired Sharpe whom he described in the early books, but he thought that Bean understood and acted the part perfectly, and he subsequently refrained from mentioning Sharpe's hair colour.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Warlord_Chronicles">Warlord Chronicles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Warlord Chronicles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Warlord_Chronicles" title="The Warlord Chronicles">The Warlord Chronicles</a></div> <p>A trilogy depicting <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthurian</a> <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Britain</a>. 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. The author has often said that these are his own favourite stories; "I have to confess that of all the books I have written these three are my favourites."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grail_Quest_novels">Grail Quest novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Grail Quest novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Grail_Quest" title="The Grail Quest">The Grail Quest</a></div> <p>This series deals with a mid-14th century search for the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Grail" title="Holy Grail">Holy Grail</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>. Englishman Thomas of Hookton becomes drawn into the quest by a mysterious man called "The Harlequin", who murders Thomas's father in his search for the Grail. Cornwell was planning at one point to write more books about Thomas of Hookton and said that, shortly after finishing <i>Heretic</i>, the third novel in the series, he had "started another Thomas of Hookton book, then stopped it—mainly because I felt that his story ended in <i>Heretic</i> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He returned to the character in <i><a href="/wiki/1356_(novel)" title="1356 (novel)">1356</a></i>, published in 2012. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Saxon_Stories/The_Last_Kingdom"><span id="Saxon_Stories.2FThe_Last_Kingdom"></span>Saxon Stories/The Last Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Saxon Stories/The Last Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories" title="The Saxon Stories">The Saxon Stories</a></div> <p>The series focuses on the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Wessex" title="Wessex">Wessex</a>. The idea for the series took shape in his mind after meeting his real father in Canada in his fifties, learning his own ancestry back to that era, to the real-life Uhtred of Bebbanburg, who became Uhtred, the protagonist of the series.<sup id="cite_ref-Emerson_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Emerson-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cornwell realised that most English people are unaware of how England came to be, rather than say, Dane-land, in that era of multiple peoples on the island of Great Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-grdn_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grdn-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Uhtred reluctantly helps <a href="/wiki/Alfred_the_Great" title="Alfred the Great">Alfred the Great</a>, a man he respects but dislikes, further his ambition of uniting all English speakers into a single kingdom. The series continues after the death of Alfred, with his heirs striving to achieve his dream. The first novel was published in 2004. In 2020, the 13th and final book was published.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Last Kingdom</i> and <i>The Pale Horseman</i> were the basis for the first series of the television series, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Kingdom_(TV_series)" title="The Last Kingdom (TV series)">The Last Kingdom</a></i>, while <i>The Lords of the North</i> and <i>Sword Song</i> were the basis for the second series. A third series, based on <i>The Burning Land</i> and <i>Death of Kings</i>, was released in November 2018, and a fourth series was released in April 2020. A fifth series was confirmed on 7 July 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Starbuck_Chronicles">Starbuck Chronicles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Starbuck Chronicles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Starbuck_Chronicles" title="The Starbuck Chronicles">The Starbuck Chronicles</a></div> <p>Four novels set during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> follow the adventures of Boston-born Nathaniel Starbuck during his service in the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate Army</a>. The series is notable for an appearance by Richard Sharpe's son as a supporting character. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Thriller_series">Thriller series</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Thriller series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cornwell's thriller series are modern mysteries, all with sailing themes. He is a traditional sailor and enjoys sailing his Cornish Crabber christened <i>Royalist</i>. 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".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Nonfiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to his many novels, including a fictional account (<i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Waterloo_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharpe's Waterloo (novel)">Sharpe's Waterloo</a></i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">battle of Waterloo</a>, Cornwell published a nonfiction book, <i><a href="/wiki/Waterloo:_The_History_of_Four_Days,_Three_Armies_and_Three_Battles" title="Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles">Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles</a></i>, released in September 2014, in time for the 200th anniversary of that battle.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_Cornwell&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Cornwell_bibliography" title="Bernard Cornwell bibliography">Bernard Cornwell bibliography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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href="/wiki/Bernard_Cornwell_bibliography" title="Bernard Cornwell bibliography">Bibliography</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe_(novel_series)" title="Sharpe (novel series)">Sharpe</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Eagle" title="Sharpe's Eagle">Sharpe's Eagle</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Gold" title="Sharpe's Gold">Sharpe's Gold</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Company" title="Sharpe's Company">Sharpe's Company</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Sword" title="Sharpe's Sword">Sharpe's Sword</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Enemy" title="Sharpe's Enemy">Sharpe's Enemy</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Honour" title="Sharpe's Honour">Sharpe's Honour</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Regiment" title="Sharpe's Regiment">Sharpe's Regiment</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Siege" title="Sharpe's Siege">Sharpe's Siege</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Rifles" title="Sharpe's Rifles">Sharpe's Rifles</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Revenge" title="Sharpe's Revenge">Sharpe's Revenge</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Waterloo" title="Sharpe's Waterloo">Sharpe's Waterloo</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Devil" title="Sharpe's Devil">Sharpe's Devil</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Christmas" title="Sharpe's Christmas">Sharpe's Christmas</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Battle" title="Sharpe's Battle">Sharpe's Battle</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Ransom" title="Sharpe's Ransom">Sharpe's Ransom</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Tiger" title="Sharpe's Tiger">Sharpe's Tiger</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Triumph" title="Sharpe's Triumph">Sharpe's Triumph</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Fortress" title="Sharpe's Fortress">Sharpe's Fortress</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Skirmish" title="Sharpe's Skirmish">Sharpe's Skirmish</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Trafalgar" title="Sharpe's Trafalgar">Sharpe's Trafalgar</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Prey" title="Sharpe's Prey">Sharpe's Prey</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Havoc" title="Sharpe's Havoc">Sharpe's Havoc</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Escape" title="Sharpe's Escape">Sharpe's Escape</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Fury" title="Sharpe's Fury">Sharpe's Fury</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Assassin" title="Sharpe's Assassin">Sharpe's Assassin</a></i> (2021)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Command" title="Sharpe's Command">Sharpe's Command</a></i> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Warlord_Chronicles" title="The Warlord Chronicles">The Warlord Chronicles</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Winter_King_(novel)" title="The Winter King (novel)">The Winter King</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Enemy_of_God_(novel)" title="Enemy of God (novel)">Enemy of God</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Excalibur:_A_Novel_of_Arthur" title="Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur">Excalibur</a></i> (1997)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Grail_Quest" title="The Grail Quest">The Grail Quest</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Harlequin_(Cornwell_novel)" title="Harlequin (Cornwell novel)">Harlequin</a></i> (aka <i>The Archer's Tale</i>) (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vagabond_(novel)" title="Vagabond (novel)">Vagabond</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heretic_(novel)" title="Heretic (novel)">Heretic</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1356_(novel)" title="1356 (novel)">1356</a></i> (2012)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories" title="The Saxon Stories">The Saxon Stories</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Kingdom" title="The Last Kingdom">The Last Kingdom</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pale_Horseman" title="The Pale Horseman">The Pale Horseman</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lords_of_the_North" title="The Lords of the North">The Lords of the North</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sword_Song_(Cornwell_novel)" title="Sword Song (Cornwell novel)">Sword Song</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Burning_Land" title="The Burning Land">The Burning Land</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Kings" title="Death of Kings">Death of Kings</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pagan_Lord" title="The Pagan Lord">The Pagan Lord</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Empty_Throne" title="The Empty Throne">The Empty Throne</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Warriors_of_the_Storm" title="Warriors of the Storm">Warriors of the Storm</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Flame_Bearer" title="The Flame Bearer">The Flame Bearer</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Wolf" title="War of the Wolf">War of the Wolf</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sword_of_Kings" title="Sword of Kings">Sword of Kings</a></i> (2019)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_Lord_(novel)" title="War Lord (novel)">War Lord</a></i> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sea_Lord_(novel)" title="Sea Lord (novel)">Sea Lord</a></i> (aka <i>Killer's Wake</i>) (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Starbuck_Chronicles" title="The Starbuck Chronicles">The Starbuck Chronicles</a></i> series (1993–96)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gallows_Thief" title="Gallows Thief">Gallows Thief</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Azincourt_(novel)" title="Azincourt (novel)">Azincourt</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fort_(novel)" title="The Fort (novel)">The Fort</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fools_and_Mortals" title="Fools and Mortals">Fools and Mortals</a></i> (2017)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Waterloo:_The_History_of_Four_Days,_Three_Armies_and_Three_Battles" title="Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles">Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles</a></i> (2014)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">TV adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe_(TV_series)" title="Sharpe (TV series)">Sharpe</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Rifles_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Rifles (TV programme)">Sharpe's Rifles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Eagle_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Eagle (TV programme)">Sharpe's Eagle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Company_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Company (TV programme)">Sharpe's Company</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Enemy_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Enemy (TV programme)">Sharpe's Enemy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Honour_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Honour (TV programme)">Sharpe's Honour</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Gold_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Gold (TV programme)">Sharpe's Gold</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Battle_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Battle (TV programme)">Sharpe's Battle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Sword_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Sword (TV programme)">Sharpe's Sword</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Regiment_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Regiment (TV programme)">Sharpe's Regiment</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Siege_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Siege (TV programme)">Sharpe's Siege</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Mission" title="Sharpe's Mission">Sharpe's Mission</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Revenge_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Revenge (TV programme)">Sharpe's Revenge</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Justice" title="Sharpe's Justice">Sharpe's Justice</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Waterloo_(TV_programme)" title="Sharpe's Waterloo (TV programme)">Sharpe's Waterloo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Challenge" title="Sharpe's Challenge">Sharpe's Challenge</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Peril" title="Sharpe's Peril">Sharpe's Peril</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td 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