Bernard, W.r.t. Dianes email of 2nd September, there have been several readers for Sharpes adventures on audiobooks. David Case (as Frederick Davidson) read most of the original stories and then the newer ones up to 1999. The late Patrick Tull did the ones published from 2000 onwards. Tull also voiced most of the Jack Aubrey books and all of the Brother Cadfael series. Both Tull and Case are fabulous at creating the different accents in the Sharpe books and I love them both. Case is continuing to do most of your newer, non Sharpe, novels. The water is somewhat muddied by a third reader, William Gaminara, best known as Doctor Locke on BBC Radio 4s The Archers. He has recorded (at least) twelve Sharpe audiobooks that had already been recorded by Case and Tull. These seem to have been recorded for a company called Chivers Audio Books an American company now owned by BBC Worldwide. I suspect that the wonderful accents of Tull and Case were too realistic and so Gaminara was hired to redo them for the US market with to my ear rather bland accents. If one has a choice, I very much recommend the recordings by Patrick Tull and David Case (A.K.A. Frederick Davidson). Best Regards, Neil