I just wanted to tell you that I totally appreciate the use of English in your books.  I read the whole Sharpe series and ordered them for our school library.  My hope was that our students would become interested in British military history.  As far as I know it didn’t happen.  At least not before I retired. I now live in a senior apartment place called the Wellington.  Because our apartments are small, I have no place to store books, so I started reading on Kindle.  I mark grammar, spelling, and sentence errors.  I read some historical romance novels by Phillpa Gregory which enlightened my knowledge of the Tudor kings and queens.  I did mark an uncomfortable number of errors but not as many as when I started to read some viking books by American authors.  I was about to give up reading historical novels when I remembered you.  Okay so I have mild dementia but I have new medicine and I remembered you and looked on line for new books.  I ordered The Last Kingdom.  I fell in love with it and remembered how much I enjoyed the Sharpe books.  Now I realize that I probably have enough of your books to supply me until I can’t see or read anymore, and I won’t have to hit the high lighter or note button to correct two or three errors per page.  You have made an elderly anglophile from rural Texas.  Thank you again.

Barbara