Your Sharpe series continues to delight me. As I’m an aspiring author/storyteller I would be interested in how you go about writing a Sharpe novel or any from your other series. Do you consult history books first? Is there a particular month or season you start the first draft? Do you have ‘weekends’ or write every day?

Also, do you think in the future you would write a novel centered around Austerlitz, like Redcoat as a stand alone? Keith Bignell