Hi Bernard, I must make a terrible confession, I really don’t like Uhtred I find him utterly up his own rear end, and without any redeeming characters, I would be happier following Ragnar! Did you intend to make him unlikable or is it just my own issues? That being so, I love the Saxon chronicles and look forward to seeing if Uhtred is humbled by a more respectable villain! (in reference to a couple of other questions on here Derfel would so give Uhtred a kicking, and most deserved it would be). Also I think Sharpe is a direct descendant of Thomas of hookton.. C’mon Tall dark, deadly with a rifle/longbow I saw what you did there! So Sharpe’s GGGGG grandfather is Thomas of Hookton!

James Shoebridge