I am absolutely ecstatic that you are returning to good old Sharpie and am bursting with anticipation for Sharpe’s Assassin.  I noticed that Wikipedia already lists it as the last in the chronology of the Sharpe novels which (on the assumption that this is correct) got me wondering about Sharpe’s early life.  I read through the whole series in my 20s and have recently been through the audiobooks (which, by the way, Rupert Farley performs to absolute perfection and I hope you can get him for the new one) and it gives plenty of tantalising details of Sharpe’s childhood.  Is there any chance that we will ever get to visit that part of his life?

David Gwilliam