Sir, I enjoy your books immensely and whilst on operations, they were passed from hand to hand in my unit once I had finished them. I cannot decide which series I enjoy the most. However there is one thing in your books that puzzles me, how is it that the Irish and Scots feature greatly in your books, but us Welsh only make fleeting appearances, such as Llwewlyn Llewelyn in Sharpe’s Trafalgar, fleeting references in the Harlequin series and Pyrlig in the Saxon chronicles. True the Warlord series covers the native Britons but that’s what they were, a people before the Welsh however much we’re descended from them. The 23rd foot served through the peninsula and then on to Waterloo, the 41st burned the White house in 1812, Welsh mercenaries were much sought after in Medieval Europe, and we were England’s opponents in Britain. I was just wondering if this was a conscious decision as we are little known in the US or that we’re not as extrovert as out Celtic cousins and therefore not good novel material.
Rhys Jones