Hello Mr. Cornwell.

As much as I have enjoyed your Saxon Chronicles, it was really a joy to return to the hero that I grew up on, Richard Sharpe.  I am throughly enjoying Sharpe’s Assassin, and I expect to equally enjoy Sharpe’s Challenge later this year.  I have a few questions:

  1. Are you finally going to tell the story of Sharpe at Albuera?
  2. How about Rolica and Vimeiro? And Moore’s march into Spain just before Sharpe’s Rifles?
  3. You once said that you would never, never, never write the story of Sharpe’s baptism of fire in Flanders. Are you holding to this, or is there a chance that we will read this story?  If you can write a successful Sharpe adventure in the aftermath of Waterloo, Flanders should be easy for you.

Regards,

Alan Kempner