Hi,

I’d just like to say I am a big fan of all your books but in particular the Sharpe series, I have read the original Penninsular campaign books numerous times, enjoying them each subsequent time as much as the first. However recently I had the pleasure of reading the whole series in chronological order, and have noticed a few inconsistencies, to be honest it’s just me nit picking, small things like Sharpe’s version of being captured by the sultan tippoo changing between the older and newer books, when he became a sergeant, the reason why he was flogged (given in an older book as being due to witnessing Hakeswill beating a private insensible but in the India book it was due to assaulting Hakeswill when he taunted Sharpe about his woman), in Sharpe’s Enemy he denies ever returning to the foundling home but in one of the newer books he had and had had revenge on the overseer. These things don’t detract from my enjoyment in the slightest and I don’t speak out of criticism as I can understand that in going back and telling earlier parts of Sharpe’s life the story may flow better than the way it had been written in the original books, my question is if you had ever thought of correcting these small inconsistencies in new editions of the books just for the completely anal of us among your fan-base? Looking back that was a really long and convoluted message to get to such a small question, I do apologise.

Thanks for your time,

David