Hello Bernard.

You’ve said many times that you’re not a historian and don’t take notes of where you find information you use in your books and you enjoy not having the constraints of an historian, so what persuaded you to write a pure history book on Waterloo? Given there are many historical books on the battle, what will you be bringing in the book that others haven’t? And, as a writer of historical fiction how did you find the constraints of history writing?

Separately, you’ve suggested in some of your answers to questions that you were planning a series set in Elizabethan times, but now will probably continue with Uthred (great!) – will the Elizabethan series come next or will you stick with Uthred until his tale is done?

Finally, I see Conn Iggulden has started a series on the Wars of the Roses – have you read the first book? Also, one of your readers has asked about novels on Richard III – one of the best I’ve read  is The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman (who is a fan of
your battle-writing ability BTW) – I believe she’s revising it (or has??) following the discovery of his body.

Bests.

Chris