Dear Mr Cornwell, I stumbled across your series while researching a Scots/Irish ancestor who fought in India in the same period as Sharpe’s Tiger. He was Robert Grenville Wallace, and he wrote a memoir of that time called ‘Forty Years in the World’. I am frantic to read it, and also have trouble getting my hands on your very popular series, including SHarpe’s Tiger. His first child was born in Seringapatam in 1811, and I long to read about the era. Question: Are you aware of my ancestor and use his book for background? Could you offer this Nova Scotian any advice to access historical information of the period? Local libraries shrug their shoulders, and British ones tell me to come over in person. Beverley Clarkson