Mr.Cornwell, I don’ t know what made me pick up your book at the library ,it was the Winter King ,perhaps the title ,perhaps the cover ,so I’ve read it,and soon said to myself this is too good just for borrow ,so I bought the trilogy,and man oh man ,the husband has read it ,my son has read, his friends,the librarian has read it,a co/worker has read it and so on,it keeps on going. Now the saxon series. I never thought I could enjoy such a book, I thought perhaps only a man would, wrong and thank you for not bashing women and thrashing them,it’ s a good clean read,thank you so much. I have to give the Sharpe series a try. My question is this: you must enjoy history it’s obvious, what is your favorite time period of history?what era? and why? hope it’s not too difficult to answer. English is my second language ,but I managed to read and understand it all, Michelle from canada