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 ...

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 ...

Most of us live in the present, pretty much all the time. We are not like Bernard Cornwell, who spends hours most days immersed in a realm and a time consisting of two parts history and one part ...

The Netflix series The Last Kingdom has taken the world by storm, and it’s actually based on the wildly popular novel series by Bernard Cornwell of the same name. It’s safe to say that the television ...

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 has no sympathy for fools in positions of power, in real life or fiction. Today his target is clear, as he ponders the human need for escapism — a longing that has driven millions to ...

England’s story begins and Bernard Cornwell’s intrepid hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s story comes to an end with what the best-selling historical fiction author describes as “one of the most important ...

Toby Harnden meets Bernard Cornwell, the bestselling writer of adventure stories loved by both men and women, including the Sharpe series. Bernard Cornwell, Cape Cod. Bernard Cornwell has just ...

If Bernard Cornwell was born to write one book, this is it. No other historical novelist has acquired such a mastery of the minutiae of warfare in centuries past. No one else could hope to take ...

Mariella Frostrup talks to Bernard Cornwell about his new book Azincourt, which narrates the battle of Agincourt from the perspective of an English archer. Mariella talks to the novelist Bernard ...