Dear Bernard, Please tell me if you get bored with my constant questions, it’s just I’m highly interested in your wonderful historical fiction as a whole now. I’ve finished Sharpe’s Tiger now, wow, another awesome read. But what I’d like to know this time, is in regards to any author’s writing of fiction with regards to history, do you feel there are any particular periods of history that have been woefully underused or written about? And if so, why? I am asking because I’m looking to start writing a history tale of some sort, due to reading your superb books, and it’s truly whetted my appetite for history now and I wish to start studying and I just wondered whether there are any particular historical events that have intrigued you that as yet you’ve not written about in some way or the other? Doubtless to say it will take a while to get an idea for a novel, but I’ve always found that asking people to give me a little inspiration has always been of great help to me, as I seem to find it easier writing a tale when others have had some input into it.

Matthew Rabjohns