Hi Bernard I don’t expect you to remember, but when you were last in Australia I interviewed you over the phone for my newspaper The Courier-Mail. At that stage, I had just read your first two Saxon stories and was about to embark on Richard Sharpe’s adventures. I’m afraid I now have something of a Richard Sharpe addiction, which I shared with the readers of my newspaper in a column I wrote in Saturday’s paper – you’ll find the column on my blog at http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail/watercooler/index.php/couriermail/C100. If you do make it back to Australia, and in particularly to Brisbane, I would love to interview you again for my paper. Anyway, thanks from a grateful Sharpe fan, regards, Rodney Chester