I just read the article about you in the Boston Globe. I was lucky enough to live in England for 4 years (97-01) and as such was already familiar with your work. I was chatting with a fellow father on the way to our son’s football match and the subject turned to books. He mentioned he had just heard you speak and recommended your Starbucks Chronicles. My interest piqued, I asked a few more questions and was surprised to find that you were British (given the subject matter of the Starbucks Chronicles). To get to the point – I enjoyed the Starbucks Chronicles immensely and only after exhausting them did I turn to the Sharpe Series, and even then only with some trepidation not having much interest in Britain’s long history of Colonialism. I will admit that I did enjoy them but I have to say that after 8 or 10 of them my interest has wained. If you are truly interested in increasing your local readership I would respectfully submit that you may get more local interest in a continuation of the Starbucks Chronicles. I know I would enjoy it. Good luck and best wishes for a pleasant holiday season. Cheers, Phil Giguere