I wanted to contact you and thank you for the wonderful Sharpe books, I watched the BBC series and became hooked and bought all the books. When will the next one be published? I grew up in a town in Ireland called Ballincollig, so when you have Sharpe talking about the superior British Gunpowder, I have to laugh as Sharpe probably doesn’t realize that much of his British gunpowder is coming from the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Ballincollig Co. Cork which was the second largest producer at the time, second only to Waltham Abbey. The Mills went into private ownership after the French defeat and finally out of business after the invention of Nitro Glycerine, they have since been restored, some pictures and information can be found on http://ballincollig.wordpress.com/gunpowder-mills/.
Jo McDonough