Hello Bernard I’ve been reading your books for quite a few years and they served as a great source of entertainment to help alleviate the boredom of revision during my University years. I’d like to ask a few questions though. I apologise if they’ve been asked before. Which of your books are you personally most proud of?

Which of your books would you change if you could, there must be at least one book out there that you cringe slightly when recalling some passage or other. I’ve always found that I am my own greatest critic and would find it very hard to read something that I had written years later, so I wonder how you find such an experience. Finally, I’ve just finished reading for the first time the Starbuck Chronicles books up to The Bloody Ground and although it may simply be the novelty of them being the freshest of your novels in my mind I am utterly convinced that they are my favourite books of yours and have kindled in me a deep interest in the American Civil War. I feel you tend to write your characters so they fight for the side that you feel more attached to, or at least are more interested in. I also have an inkling that you have a soft spot for the Confederate States of America, I may of course be wrong and probably am! Anyway, thanks for writing the books that have given me so much enjoyment. Joe – England