Bernard Cornwell

Template:SharpeSeries Bernard Cornwell is a prolific and popular British author, well-known for his historical novels.

He was born in London in 1944. His father was a Canadian airman; his mother English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was given up for adoption and brought up in Essex by the Wiggins family, who were part of the Peculiar People, a strict Protestant sect who banned frivolity of all kinds and even medicine. He was sent away to boarding school, attended the University of London and after graduating worked for BBC Television as a director. He married Judy in 1980 and re-located to her home country, the USA. Unable to get a Green Card, he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit.

His best-known books feature the adventures of Richard Sharpe, an English soldier, and are set in the Napoleonic era. After writing 12 books detailing adventures set around various European battle campaigns over the course of 12 years, further stories covered Sharpe's earlier years as a young soldier in India. Most of the Napoleonic-era books were filmed for a TV series starring Sean Bean as Sharpe. Further books written subsequently have been slotted in to different parts of Sharpe's timeframe.

Cornwell has also written the Starbuck Chronicles, four novels set during the American Civil War; and the three Warlord Chronicles dealing with Arthurian Britain. His latest series is the Grail Quest novels dealing with a 14th Century search for the Holy Grail is set around the time of the Hundred Years War.

List of novels

The SHARPE series (in historical date order)


The STARBUCK Chronicles

  • "Rebel"
  • "Copperhead"
  • "Battle Flag"
  • "The Bloody Ground"


The Warlord Chronicles

  • "The Winter King"
  • "Enemy of God
  • "Excalibur"


The GRAIL QUEST novels

  • "Harlequin" (re-named The Archer's Tale in the USA)
  • "Vagabond"
  • "Heretic"

Tale of Alfred the Great

  • "The Last Kingdom"
  • "The Pale Horseman" (forth)

Crowning Mercy (writing as Susannah Kells)

  • "A Crowning Mercy"
  • "Fallen Angels"
  • "Coat of Arms"

Other novels

  • "Redcoat"
  • "Wildtrack"
  • "Sea Lord" (aka Killer's Wake)
  • "Crackdown" (aka Murder Cay)
  • "Stormchild"
  • "The Hidden Hand"
  • "The Snarl of the Beast"
  • "Scoundrel"
  • "Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC"
  • "The Archer's Tale"
  • "Gallows Thief"

See also

Sharpe (TV Series)

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