Picked up a copy of Sea Lord the other day in Foyles, I went to find a Jac Weller book, ut couldn’t resist checking out the Bernard Cornwell section, you know how these bookshops are? I was wondering on the chosen name of the hero. John Rossendale. Any coincidence that there was a Rossendale in Sharpe? Same family? Although if I remember right the John Rossendale in Sharpe’s only child was with Jane Sharpe out of wedlock after he died at Waterloo.

Nigel James