Hello Bernard, I enjoyed the Arthur trilogy and Stonehenge and am halfway through The Last Kingdom. As my interest is in earlier history (before 1600), I have not read the Sharpe novels. I am a writer and currently on my third novel. I am published in Germany and Holland, but sadly do not have an English language publisher as yet (I am a Welsh expat living in NZ and would love to be able to read my published books!) My books are set in Medieval Wales and at times I can get carried away by my research – although I do find ideas for other stories on the way and have filed them away for future writing. Taking a break from the mounds of paperwork being my research notes, I perused your website and would like to heartily thank you for a piece of advice that I now have stapled to the front of my manuscript – i.e. my job is not to be a historian but a story teller. This will help me more than anything else I have been told or read, to keep me on track and I thank you! With best regards Jane Watt