Hi Bernard,

I just wanted to take this opportunity to write to you to let you know that the Sharpe novels are my favourite books of all time. I was only young when the tv series came out and I was basically raised on it. My Grandad and me used to watch these together and it is something that we regularly still do some twenty years later. I firmly believe that our relationship is founded on the love we both share for Sharpe.

I have reread the novels so many times that I am missing pages and the cover has come away from the pages. My books have definitely seen better days but I am so reluctant to let them go. Your books have also inspired me to want to know more about the Napoleonic Wars, I wrote my extended project dissertation on the battle of Waterloo and the way it changed Europe. (I was very upset to find out that two months after I handed my final project in, your non-fiction book on the same topic came out. Having since read and loved it, it would have been a great help to me.)

I just wanted to know if you had plans to write more of these novels. If you do, I will definitely buy them and cherish them with the rest.

Thank you so much for creating the love of my life!

Best wishes,

Rachel