Sir, Having just completed a marathon re-read of all 21 of the Sharpe books, in chronological order, over Xmas, it got my brain wondering as to when, where or how you could possibly fit another wonderful Sharpe and Harper tale into the timeline of the 1800’s …so I went and looked, and sadly they just don’t quite fit into participating in the Mexican War of Independence(not enough time after Napoleon’s death), then I looked at the Irish Potato Famine, but Richard would have been 58 when that started so probably a little too old…I did come up with one, though, that fits into the real life timeline of events and would provide a possible scenario for a Sharpe Novel “Sharpe and the Battles of the Nive”(9-13 December 1813) ..especially when you see that “Daddy” Hill was the general who actually ran that Battle, an old “friend” of Richard Sharpe, and brings in our well-loved enemy Marshal Soult …and, unusually, for most of the battle, Wellington remained with the Reserve…could he have been involved with some sort of skullduggery with Sharpe and Patrick Harper? Who knows, and as you write the novels, I have to leave it to the maestro..but it fits… Best regards and thanks again for a great series of novels Regards Graham Bradbury