Will you be writing any more books of the Lazender family. I have read the first 2 and have enjoyed them very much. Kim Allison

Hi Bernard. First I’d like to thank you for the huge amount of pleasure you’ve given myself and millions of others with your books.I’ve read and re-read most of them and enjoyed them all, having no special favourites (although possibly the Grail Quest and the Saxon Stories remain my most-read). The Sharpe books I’d read before the TV series, but casting John Tams, with his wonderful voice, as Daniel Hagman was a stroke of genius, and the CD of the music from the series is one of my most-played! I’ve just finished reading one of your older books, A Crowning Mercy, and have started reading Fallen Angels… there is a considerable gap between the two, and I wonder if you are ever going to tell us how the Campion and Toby of the first developed into the Campion and Toby of the second? Did you just get tired of the people and the era, or was there never an intent to write a series about the people and the times? Anyway, I love the way you develop your characters and your stories, and will be waiting future books with a great deal of anticipation. Many thanks. Paul Brewer

Dear Bernard, After having read most of your books, and thoroughly enjoyed them all, my most loved is Crowning Mercy. I consider it an almost perfect story. What I don’t like is the Title. Why did you call it this, and not, say, “The Covenant”, which would seem to reflect the plot more than “Crowning Mercy” does? And why was such a gem hidden for so long before recently being re-published? Rick Edmonds