OBE? Does that mean you are Sir Bernard now? Also, I buy and occasionally sell your books on ebay. I have a few signed copies. I have a copy of Sharpe’s Eagle that is “flat signed on the title page, but, also has an inscription, it says: “For Kay Wolff in thanks for a lovely lunch”. I realise that you wrote that some thirty years ago, but thought it might recall someone you knew. I bought the book on ebay. It was one in a complete collection of your books from a doctor, female, from the U.K. She lived in California and was moving back to the U.K. and couldn’t take her collection with her. Just wondering.

Jack Douglas