Hi Bernard, First, thank you so much for your fantastic ‘work’ that I have enjoyed over the years, which for me started back in 1997 when, as a young soldier myself, I found a well thumbed Sharpe novel deep in the bowels of a hell hole army barracks in Northern Ireland ! I have now of course read pretty much all of your titles and glad to say the Uhtred series is probably my favourite to date. The Uhtred character once again captures the ‘x factor’; brutality and nobility in a fine balance of ‘ying and yang’ we’ve become accustomed to within the warrior psyches so many of your main characters, coupled with a well woven storyline. This time I was especially glad to see my home town of ‘Beamfleot’ featuring in the series, even the ‘Hothlege’ which I spent a lot of my youth mucking about, in and around. Anyway.. you’ve already given us some clues about the next Uhtred book, being due out in Autumn 2011 which writing ‘The Fort’ has got in the way of :-) Can you at least tell us the name of the title you’ve got earmarked so we can muse what might be happening in the next installment? Autumn 2011 is a long way away ;-) Thanks Tony G