Dear Bernard, I just want to say I absolutely love your Sharpe series and I have just started reading the new Sharpe’s Skirmish, it is just brilliant. I must admit I fell in love with the series through Sean Bean, but on reading the books I fell in love with your writing. But I wanted to ask you if you did a degree at The College of St Marks and St Johns? in Plymouth, Devon (England) as I have seen pictures of you in the college allumni, I am a student there and I could not believe my eyes when I saw it! Because of my love for history and the peninsular war (Sharpe etc) I am now in my second year of a degree in English (language) and history! I hope you keep writing more Sharpe books and maybe persuade Sean to turn some more books in to tv adaptions! :-) Thank you for your time and I can’t wait for your next Sharpe book! Kirsty :-)