Dear Bernard You have written a lot of novels yet I have noticed that only Redcoat and Sharpe’s siege lightly touch on any of the Anglo/American wars. Indeed in Redcoat the Brits who want to win the war are nasty psychopaths and the Americans of course very saintly and in Siege even Sharpe doesn’t seem to have a problem with any of Killicks men (None of whom are killed by Sharpe in battle or visa versa) who were deserters from the British army. I was curious if this was deliberate and reflected your own views or if it simply happened by accident

and whether you will ever write about the American revolution again from the British perspective like say the 1775 invasion of Canada or the war of 1812 at all in the future as an author who is half Canadian who lives in America you would seem ideally placed to write about all sides?????

On another note as someone who is based in the Northwest I wondered if any of the next Viking book will be set around there. There was the first siege of Chester after all and huge Viking settlements on the Wirral????? Yours sincerely Tony

P.S If you have not read it I can recommend The Confident Hope of a Miracle The true history of the Spanish Armada by Neil Hanson which is worth a read on whats now a rather forgotten subject in the UK (Have you ever thought of writing about it at all???) .