First off Bernard (hope I’m not being too presumptuous on first name terms, I feel like I know you) I’m an Englishman living here in Georgia, USA. I own and have read every one of your books apart from a couple of the Sharp series. Basically your books make me proud to be British and I am constantly on the lookout to see if my hometown of Leek, Staffs be mentioned. The closest was Buchestanes (Buxton) mentioned in your ‘Death of Kings’. My question is this I lived 15 years in Zululand, S Africa, do you have plans to write anything on the Zulu or Boer wars? I loved all of Wilbur Smiths books but they don’t have the visceral attention to detail and feel of history as yours. Thank you so much for your time, and I look forward with baited breath to you next book

Peter Aller