61. Carla Nayland Historical Fiction: Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' Adventures One of the UK digital channels has been rerunning some of the TV adaptations of bernard cornwell s Sharpe novels this week, which has been a welcome http://carlanayland.blogspot.com/2007/06/bernard-cornwells-sharpe-adventures.htm

skip to main skip to sidebar Carla Nayland Historical Fiction A blog mainly about researching, writing and reading historical fiction, and anything else that interests me. You can read my other articles and novels on my website at www.CarlaNayland.org 14 June, 2007 Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' adventures One of the UK digital channels has been re-running some of the TV adaptations of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels this week, which has been a welcome diversion. I'd forgotten how good they are. For anyone who's not familiar with the series, it's a sequence of military adventure stories featuring the dramatic and romantic exploits of Richard Sharpe, a fictional officer with the British 95th Rifles during the Napoleonic Wars in Spain. Sean Bean looked even better in 1993 when the first film was made, and David Troughton makes a perfect Lord Wellington. I've read most of the Sharpe novels as well, and I'm struck by how well they translate to the screen. The screenplays differ from the novels, but they are just as good. Which I think is quite rare - most screen adaptations seem to lose something of the story compared with the original novel, and very few improve on it. I can only think of Hunt for Red October where I thought the film was better than the book (and not just because Sean Connery was in it, either).

62. Jim Mann's Reviews And Comments: Sharpe’s Escape By Bernard Cornwell Such is the case with bernard cornwell’s novels about Richard Sharpe, a soldier under the Duke of Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars. http://www.dpsinfo.com/jblog/2005/11/sharpes-escape-by-bernard-cornwell.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=18103906"); Jim Mann's Reviews and Comments Reviews of books and movies as well as other random musings by Jim Mann. Friday, November 11, 2005 Sharpe’s Escape by Bernard Cornwell Some writers fall into a certain formula in their books. Despite this – or maybe in some ways because of this – in the hands of a good author the books can remain enjoyable and even compelling. Such is the case with Bernard Cornwell’s novels about Richard Sharpe, a soldier under the Duke of Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars. There is an underlying formula to many of the books, but they are great fun nevertheless. The Sharpe series originally started with Sharpe’s Rifles and ended with Sharpe’s Waterloo . They followed Richard Sharpe and Patrick Harper – who Sharpe first meets, then makes his second in command in Sharpe’s Rifles – through the history of the Peninsular War – the war against Napoleon in Portugal and Spain, and the key reason (more important than the 1812 Russian campaign) to Napoleon’s downfall. After Waterloo, Cornwell took Sharpe and Harper to South America (interestingly, Patrick O’Brian also took Aubrey and Maturin to South America after Waterloo, so I’m sure there is some fan fiction about this out there somewhere). He then went back and wrote prequels, set in India and Denmark, among other places. (These were good, but less satisfying than the main series, since althoughI refer to the series as the Sharpe series, it really is the Sharpe/Harper series; the relationship between the two men is important to the dynamic of the series.) Now, Cornwell is filling in gaps between the books in the original series.

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64. Life After Sharpe bernard cornwell talks to Richard Lee about laziness and hitting barn doors. When you meet bernard cornwell, there is something of the soldier about him http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/solander files/bcinterview.htm

Life After Sharpe Bernard Cornwell talks to Richard Lee about laziness and hitting barn doors. The first of the Sharpe books, Sharpe's Eagle, was published in 1981. Now there are seventeen, with another four planned. By any standards, they have been a huge success. There was one Number One Best-seller before the television series, starring Sean Bean, but afterwards, as Bernard puts it laconically, "the number of women readers shot up". Nowadays Bernard expects to make the list once a year with Sharpe, and once a year with one of his other books - this year it will be Stonehenge. They are all, he says, military historical novels, and though it is possible to quibble about this (especially with a book like Stonehenge), it is broadly true. Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell List Price: Our Price: £5.59 You Save: View to Buy "Every man," says Samuel Johnson, quoted in the front of Sharpe's Eagle, " thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier." The old adage certainly seems to have spun pure gold for Bernard Cornwell. Again, Bernard is a good friend of the author Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong, Charlotte Grey etc - literary stratosphere), and so, for a moment or two, I fish for a literary anecdote there. Nothing doing. Bernard tells of time when they were going to the Oxford and Cambridge rugby game and Sebastian had forgotten his ticket. "You and me, Richard," he says, "There's no way... I mean... But Sebastian. He just goes along and says how terribly sorry he is, and they let him in! That wouldn't happen for anyone except Sebastian, but he just has this very English sort of face, and you wouldn't dream of not believing him." But what about his writing, Bernard?

65. AudioFile Interview “In the end,” says bernard cornwell, “we all write what we like to read.” The prolific author of various fictional series covering the Napoleonic Wars, http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/features/A1639.html

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