Bernard Cornwell
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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I never kept them, I don't know, they've long disappeared into the bin, which is a pity.
So it all just comes naturally to you now?
It does, yes.
I mean, and it's, again, I'm curious about this, that
Because I always say to people, I'm not an historian, I'm a storyteller.
And I think being a storyteller takes certain skills, but I'm not sure what those skills are.
When I wrote my only nonfiction book, which is on Waterloo, I was determined to tell it like it was a novel.
In other words, to use a storyteller's methods.
And about a year ago, I met Eric Larson, and he said the same thing about his books, which I found very interesting, because he's hugely successful, that he writes his books as though they were stories.
And it works.
Yes.
Do you have lots of books?
Far too many.
My wife bitches about it all the time to me.
What would that book be?
It would be a book by John Cooper Powys.
Right.
Of which I have several.
I don't know which one I'd choose.
Probably one that I've always found difficult.
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