Thanks. Thank you for all the long journeys, toilet times, the baths, the time taken away from the world on the sofa or in the garden etc etc. Thank you for Azincourt, a book which I read at least once every three months. Fantastic. On a recent road trip with the boys (all in our early thirties) through Northern France to find a great granddad’s war grave (and drink as much wine and cider as we could) I made ’em drive a couple of hours out the way so I could stand on the field of Agincourt… to their obvious delight: ‘Come on Jon, move! What are you doing you nutter? It’s just a field!’

‘Just a couple of minutes more mate. And no. It’s not just a field. Piss off.’

After I dragged them to the museum, and basically retold your book, they understood what I was on about a bit more, heh heh.

All the hundred year’s war books are brilliant. Easily amongst my favourite books in the world; as good as any books I’ve ever read and I go through books like butter. Azincourt takes me about two hours.

I would also like to extend thanks for the Arthur books and for Uhtred. Absolutely magic. I’d never heard of a shield wall! I was well happy to get to the end of The Pagan Lord and realise there was another one coming! I thought that was the ultimate one – capture Bebbanburg and be done. Oh no – one easy stocking filler this year from my missus!

So that’s about it. Keep ’em coming and, once again, thank you.

Jonathan