The Burning Land is excellent – a great tale, well told as usual. I’m on Mersea Island which you will know and there is a business at East Mersea with the family name ‘Haesten’. I wonder if they can trace their lineage back. So what’s next please? Already hungry for more I’m afraid although I now have a serious problem with bookcase space. I am planning to leave the grandchildren a series of first editions – 19 at the last count. You may be interested I use some words of your heroes in training (attributed of course) – Merlin on the written word becoming dogma and the definition of ‘intelligence’ by Hogan. Do keep them coming.

Roger Gaspar