I’m a bookseller in the San Francisco Bay area, and a longtime fan of your Sharpe books, but for one reason or another, I could not summon the same level of enthusiasm for the Arthur books or the Grail Quest. Some books you connect with, some you don’t. I’ve just finished reading a pre-publication copy of “The Last Kingdom” (perhaps the only perk of selling books) and I enjoyed it immensely. As did my wife, another Sharpe fan. The non-Sharpe books I mention above seem constrained in some way that I cannot define. Not so here – you have room to spread out, as you do in Sharpe – not that I’m sure what I mean by that. I know Kingdom will do well, and my only complaint is that now I’ve a long wait for the next one. Best regards, Phil Spiro