Mr Cornwell, I was first exposed to your glorious creations when my Dad narked off my Mum by putting Sharpe on during dinner times when I was 10-12 – it wasn’t that she didn’t like it but she felt it wasn’t condusive to the appetite when people were getting “mullered” left, right and centre. Since then I have had many joyful hours reading all your original run of Sharpe books, the Arthur trilogy which I couldn’t put down, and am greatly looking forward to Fury. All the very best and congratulations on both the OBE, richly deserved, and on creation an amazing plethora of consistently excellent and oddly wholesome (Can’t help but think of Sharpe and Harper that way, Arthur too, for that matter) timeless adventures. Alex Sullivan-Wilson