Dear Mr Cornwell,

I thought I should write to say thank you!

Since the 1990’s, when I first picked up a copy of Sharpes Tiger, I have galloped through all of your book (bar the Starbuck chronicles – not sure why) and back again. So inspired was I that I have become an avid student of the Napoleonic wars.  This, I now combine with my day job as an art dealer here in the Cotswolds and specialise in selling original works of art from the period (and portrayals of the wars out of period).  So, it is down to you that I now happily earn a crust and I have detailed this in the “about” page on my website www.1793.co.uk.  Please do take a look.  I am adding new works all the time, but am particularly proud of Turners, “Hougoumont” from 1818.

If you get even a modicum of pleasure from the pictures for sale on my site, then I feel that goes someway to saying thank you for all the pleasure your books have given me over the years.

Kind regards,

Simon