Dear Mr. Cornwell, I’ve admired your work for quite a number of years now and still get great pleasure from most of your series. Just one question. I noticed in my copy of Sharpe’s Rifles, that it was published in 1988. As far as I’m aware this book was written to coincide with the TV series as a starting point for Sharpe, at the request of the producers. However the series started in 1993. Did it really take this long for the series to be broadcast?

Also, any chance (during your busy schedule)you could do an Alfred Hitchcock like walk on by if more episodes are produced? Keith