Love all your books – but any chance of continuing the Starbuck chronicles – isn’t it about time that Nathaniel marched again?

John Sparkes

As it appears Sharpe is in for retirement, how about not to sound cheesy or anything but perhaps we could have (and I stress perhaps)have a book or a series on books on how Patrick Lassan son of Sharpe ends up involved in the American Civil War and his various adventures thus bringing you full circle back to the Starbuck Chronicles and maybe allowing for a further Starbuck novel? Joshua Selig

Dear Bernard, In respect to Nathaniel Starbuck, it is true that the books’ structure is somewhat similar to that of the Sharpe series, however the historical background is fascinatingly different and the atmosphere and times of the American Civil War breathtakingly described. One fully understands that enough is enough, and the Civil War as subject matter seems to have that effect on people (for instance, the abandoned third film of the Gods & Generals and Gettysburg trilogy). This being said, may I join the gathering of Philistines to exhort my favourite author to contemplate once more a sequel in the Starbuck Chronicles? With much appreciation, Robert Wood