Dear Bernard, I’ve just finished reading the Sharp series (in chronological order) and wish to thank you for giving me back the joy of reading. I didn’t think that I’d find a series so long so gripping, I had read the excellent Thomas of Hookton Grail series and wasn’t really interested in the Napoleonic era. Well you soon changed that perception, so thankyou. I’ve also read Gallows thief and wish to ask if we shall read anymore of the adventures of Rider Sandman and Co, as that was too good a story for it to have been a one off surely?. Also, will Sharp be returning to India in the 1830’s for he will only be in his late forties /early fifties and Harper about the same? (I think there was an incursion into India during that time or it may have been a little later?). The only thing left for me now is to polish off the Starbuck chronicals and the Arthur books and I’ll be back in the dulldrums. Or will I.