Dear Bernard,
I have read most of your books which I enjoy very much and in particular I look forward to a big piece battle scene that you narrate superbly. I have just finished reading 1356 and was struck by how violent, bloody and graphic your description was of the battle at Poitiers giving much detail of the effect of the weapons used such as axes and swords on an opponents body. I have nothing against this as this is how it was. My question is that the graphic violent deaths in 1356 differs with your earlier battle descriptions in that certainly perhaps some of the earlier Sharpe novels were much less graphic in their descriptions of death than the ones described in 1356. Do you think that your style of writing over the years has changed in this respect or is it that you are writing for a more “open minded” reader now? (Looking forward to the next Uhtred !).

Kind regards,
Tony