Dear Sir I have 4 questions… (1)what’s your personal view on The Audiobook? This is now the 3rd time I’m purchasing your Fantastic Sharpe Novel Collection and this time it’s once a month at payday. I ask because up until last July I never even contemplated the audio book idea but a colleague recommended the Harry Potter set, Which my boss (fiancee) frowned upon me when she saw my bank statement, mocked me as lazy as I already owned the books as I do with the Sharpe Novels, but the audio books keep me company on long journeys and I find it easier these days to process the information. Having taken the time to write the books, how do you feel about what my Fiancee describes as the lazy approach?

(2) At the end of the Devil Sharpe and Harper are given a box of gold each, are you restoring some of Sharpe’s stolen fortune?

(3) In the Devil am I wrong to think that Vivar’s wife was a tad unfair to Sharpe? She makes it seem like Sharpe owed Vivar a debt, but when I read the Rifles it seems to be a mutually beneficial alliance.

(4) Finally is the following information in this website (bbc linked) unofficial and based on somebody’s interpretation? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A15711301. Because it makes statements like Sharpe and Lucille do indeed marry, and Jane ends up penniless. I only ask because Sharpe’s son does not carry his surname in the Starbuck books.

Lee