I first started reading the sharpe books when I was in the royal navy, nearly 25 years ago and a rather dogeared copy of sharpes rifles was doing the rounds between the mess decks. i have been a devotee since and thoroughly enjoyed the king arthur series, the harlequin series and am now reading the saxon stories. It is great to hear that Sean Bean is making more films of the books and would be interesting to hear how much influence you had in choosing Sean Bean as Sharpe as I feel that the part could have been written with him in mind as it is an inspired piece of casting. I have also seen your comments on the covers of a series of books about the Roman military by Simon Scarrow. Have you ever been tempted to do a series of books about this period of history? Mark Dunford