Dear Mr. Cornwell, Whilst clearing out some stuff recently I came across a stack of old Sharpe books and decided to read them in chronological order.Started to read Sharpe’s Tiger and lo, and behold a news item comes on the good old B.B.C. Tipoo(or Tipu, as the subtitles had it )Sultans’ treasures being sold at Sothebys Auctions 25th May! Checked out the on-line catalogue and there’s all the tiger-y stuff.Weird co-incidence.Love your new stuff by the way.I have written to you before about re-enactors and I often recommend your Arthur books to people.Now I can suggest the new Anglo-Saxon one as well. Thanks! Mari Hannigan.
This is a follow-up to my e-mail sent earlier today. Having just sent that message I turned the T.V. on and there’s a Meet The Ancestors programme about Bamburgh Castle. Are you haunting me?Seriously, it was quite an interesting snippet about 6 anglo saxon skeletons found buried at the site, all high status, one 10 yr old child,one teenager, three adults,all from what is now lowland Scotland but was then northern Bernicia, and one adult from the island of Iona, off the West coast of Scotland. Now all I need is A Celtic Dark Ages,a Medieaval,and an American war mention to have all your series referenced in one day! Don’t worry, I’m not some kind of conspiracy theorist, it just seemed like a strange co-incidence! If you can check out the Sothebys on-line catalogue tho’ It’s quite fun! yours Mari Hannigan
Mr Cornwell, greetings
Don’t know that you’re much of an artifact hound, and you probably have already heard about this, but- Sotheby’s is doing a sale on the theme of the Tippoo Sultan. Not an everyday sort of thing.
Thought you should know, at least.
Or not.
All best regards
B. Allen