I’ve been reading the delightful Sharpe books in (historical) chronological order, and am struck by the many instances where a book written in the 1980s makes reference to a past event, which is then described in detail in a story written much later. I am thinking in particular of the flogging episode. When you wrote the earlier series, did you anticipate that such events would provide material for books to be written later, or did you insert these references in a second edition of the earlier novels? However you did it, the effect is quite fascinating! Peter Fish