Dear Bernard, I love much of the dialogue that your characters spout, particular Uhtred and Richard Sharpe, usually when they’re threatening people, of course. I wonder do you have a favourite line mouthed by one of your characters? I guess writers don’t remember their own lines. One of my favourite lines is Flashman’s ‘Make one move and I’ll blow your guts into Ohio’ and I use that line frequently, whenever I’m in awkward situations, in pubs or on football fields or just generally answering the door (TV Licence inspectors never get it, but they run all the same). George MacDonald Fraser probably doesn’t remember writing it. You’d probably be the same, which I can understand. Too many stories, too many characters, too many scenes. But still, do you recall any particularly memorable mutterings by those hooligans you’ve spawned? I have a Sharpe favourite, which is very funny, and a Uhtred one, which is downright horrible. Thanks! Paul, Co. Cork