Hello Bernard. My names Kyle Hazelden, I’m 19 and first fell in love with your work when I watched Sharpe and with that fell in love with that part of history all together. I have 2 questions regarding two books, Redcoat and Sharpe. Firstly on Redcoat, Sam Gilpin (Can’t remember if it’s two L’s or not) he decided to choose love and save Caroline and turn from the Redcoats. When he said he would fight for his home which was now with his Caroline. Did this mean that he in fact joined the “Rebel” army? Also would it be a story you would like to expand on?

Secondly with Sharpe. Of course we know that due to Sean being older now, that the Africa setting was set after Waterloo. Was it hard to see that happen? Of course you can never stop time and age, but I suppose it was nice to see Sharpe again and “tweak” a few things. Especially seeing the Sharpe/Harper reunion. But my question is when writing the books, was it hard sometimes to leave a character of to kill of a character? Especially Teresa, Perkins, Daniel Hagman and Harris? Also the strong friendship between William Frederickson breaking towards the end of the series. How hard was it to do these? Of course you became as attached to the characters as we did and at the time did you know you would do this and what affect it would have? Or was it the odd moment where you thought “What if?” and ended up liking it? Thank you for taking time to listen and would love to see your reply. Regards Kyle Hazelden from the (Not so) Mighty British Empire :)