Mr Cornwell, I have just finished the Starbuck Chronicles and I was pleasantly suprised by them. Do you know when you will write another of them? I have started reading Redcoat and was wondering, how old were the lads when the wealthy parents sent them off to be Ensigns? Its just that Trumbull is 13 and I was wondering, did they ever have younger boys as Ensigns? Also, why is it that some of your most brutal villains are Sergeants (Hakeswill, Case and Scammell come to my mind)? Thanks for the hours of pleasurable reading and I can’t wait until the Last Kingdom comes out, it sounds excellent. Lewis