Bernard Cornwell

I've just finished The Flame Bearer, glad to find Utred was at last back home in Bebbanberg but found the battle scene at the end a bit too long and unrelieved by Cornwell's usual moments of stress relief. Maybe I've read too many of his books and am comparing it too much with my favourite,The Burning Land, but I'm just me. What I've done to help me write is to read passages I really admire now and then to remind me of the standard I am trying to reach. I also use P. G, Wodehouse, C.S. Forester, and bits and pieces of poetry, Burns and St Agnes Eve or The Deserted Village, for their descriptive power. I'm not as good as any of those but, one's does one's best as in Shadows in the Veldt.
People have commented that the flag on the cover of Shadows in the Veldt is not the German National flag, it isn't, it's the Kaiser's Imperial flag, the one they flew in WW1.

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