Dear Bernard I am currently editing/writing for “Going Native in Alicante” and have put the Sharpe novels in the suggested reading list. I am currently reading Sharpe’s Fury and found myself nosing through your books in Spanish at the National Library in Madrid as they are promoting them as background to the 200 Year Anniversary of the Peninsular Wars. (There is a fabulous expo in said library by the way; Goya prints and an amazing cartoon of a British soldier with woman and child and washing drying on his rifle as they march.) Is there any particular episode of Sharpe that related to Valencia or Alicante in particular as I know there was an attack on the castillo in Alicante by the British? Much obliged and keep writing. Susan Bearder