Dear Mr Cornwell, After watching Sharpe’s Challenge on TV a few weeks ago, I decided to buy the entire series on DVD (it took me back to my childhood, when I used to get a cheeky late night and watch the earlier ones on tele!). By the way, I’m 19. After watching them all, I’m going to get the books, but being a student, my funds are a bit limited, and I need a bit of help help deciding which book to buy first. Finally, to the question, possibly one of the most boring questions anyone has asked you: what order do you believe is the best to read the Sharpe series? By the order they were published or in historical order? I ask because I think there might be advantages of reading them in either order. In publisher’s order you might get kind of a better sense of Sharpe, see his character progress the way that you wrote about him, although in historical order you might have a better sense of time, sort of. Something like that anyway. Please, give me a hand! Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Hywel Parrington