I just finished reading the Warlord series and want to let you know how much I enjoyed it. I have an interest in history, I regularly visit historical sites, do a fair bit of reading and take OU courses. I love the way you mix fiction with history. It really gets me interested in looking into more detail at a historical period or visit certain sites. I also love the way you change certain well-known characters, ambitious Guinevere, self-centered and self-serving Lancelot etc. In one of the books you mentioned that the Britons were able to communicate with the Irish as their languages were fairly similar. Is this true? I always assumed the Celtic language they spoke in that region was Brittonic which ultimately evolved in what is now Welsh, whereas Irish comes from the Gaelic variant. Were the languages similar in this time period?

Have you ever considered writing a book set in the Roman period btw? Regards, Justin