You can give me a fancy tv and a set-top box with more than a 100 channels from which to choose and I’ll probably watch two or three channels before I become extremely bored. Until that is, I find the channel that is running a series of Sharpe. You can however, give me a room full of books and I shall never get bored. I have read all the Sharpe books and several others and am currently reading Azincourt. You may know that our public libraries are in a parlous state. It is now so difficult to get hold of your books that I have bought an e-reader so that if I can’t get one of your books from the library I can at least get a reasonably priced one off the internet. When I was first introduced to Sharpe I didn’t realise there was a series so I made sure that the next one was the first story and followed through to the latest one. Each one is a story in itself but it makes a better read if they can be read in chronological order. I like your style which gets the reader involved from the first chapter without getting bogged down with waffle and scene-setting. Thank you for providing many hours of quiet but exciting reading. Paul