Dear Bernard
I have long been a keen reader of historical novels since my mid teens and am now turned sixty, I still have most of them, well over 200 now. My passions were fired by Charleton Heston and Kirk Douglas and by holidays in Wales and the Isle of Man. I am a self confessed medievalist into re-enactment and making the acoutrements of the Saxon and Norman times. Your books are probably the best I have read. I say probably for only one author comes close and he would be the late George Shipway.
He wrote Imperial Governor and Warrior in Bronze, and later Knight in Anarchy, about a young Norman Knight caught up in the service of Geoffrey de Mandeville, who was a pretty ruthless devil. This guy pales into the haze compared to the character that stars in the Paladin and the Wolf Time, Robert of Belesme makes Brad the impaler look like Sooty. I am getting carried away but what I am saying is that out of all the books I have read, on my desert Island I would have Three George Shipway books and a sack full of yours. I await a book about the Norman Conquest, does 1066 grab you like 1356?
Kind Regards
Geoff