Dear Bernard,

I have really enjoyed your books for many years now, and have just finished Sharpe’s Regiment, which is what prompted this letter. So many of the places you mentioned have a special significance for me. In 1966 I was a very junior site agent with a building firm in Southend on Sea, and we had a contract to build gun emplacements on Foulness Island, a very desolate place, brilliantly described by you. I spent may days as a youth sailing the creeks round Foulness.  It was then a weapons testing station, probably still is. I left the building firm to join the police, and Grantham was my first posting. Sleaford was my second, and the cattle market was still thriving in 1967 but is now a housing estate. You also mentioned Hadleigh Castle, which still stands, and where Christine, my wife, used to play as a child.

But now I am bereft, I only have Sharpe’s Devil left to read, before Richard Sharpe, a long time companion, leaves me, though I have read many of your other books and enjoyed them as well.  Are there any more Sharpe books planned ?

Thank you so much for many hours of pleasurable reading.

Chris Matthews

Dear Mr. Cornwell,

I own all Sharpe books published so far. Now for a very simple question: will there be any prequels/sequels of this series?

Sincerely

Ludwig Dittrich