Hello again, Mr Cornwell. You may recall that I emailed you some weeks ago after I read The Winter King. I said that I would be getting Enemy of God next, which I have just this minute finished reading. Well! Lovely read. As with all of the Sharpes series and the Saxon stories, I was RIGHT THERE. I could all but smell the wet straw, hot sweaty horses, blood and unwashed bodies of the soldiers, could see the peasants in their ratty clothing ransacking the bodies on the battlefield, can hear the crashing of sword to shield and the cries of the injured and dying. Wow. I also picked up what may be a small error…if I may explain. Chapter 2 in The Dark Road starts with Derfel trimming the pig-bone that he snapped to stop Lancelot marrying Ceinwyn to fit into Hywelbane’s hilt. He and Issa carve the hilt,glue the bones in place and binds the hilt. That is on page 56. On page 58, Derfel narrates that: “And so I slept alone that night, but in the morning, after we had shared a scanty breakfast with our spearmen and servants, and before I put the bone scraps into Hywelbane’s hilt, Ceinwyn walked with me up Cwm Isaf’s stream.” The paragraph continues for another line. If he has already glued them in place, how can he then put them in? I don’t think the times match. Am I missing something? I go to get Excalibur tomorrow!! And I do so love the way that you write. I hope to hear from you soon. An avid/fanatical reader/fan, Andrew.