(2022)
I must apologise to all of you who were looking forward to reading Sharpe’s Command later this year. The publication of the book has been postponed for a year. The reasons for this were that my last few months have been harried…
Read More...I began writing Sharpe in 1980 and he’s still going strong. I never thought there would be this many books – I imagined there might be ten or eleven – but then along came Sean Bean and the television programmes and I virtually began a whole new Sharpe series.
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I must apologise to all of you who were looking forward to reading Sharpe’s Command later this year. The publication of the book has been postponed for a year. The reasons for this were that my last few months have been harried…
Read More...Sharpe’s Assassin Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815 Sharpe is back! Sharpe is dispatched to a new battleground: the maze of Paris streets where lines blur between friend and foe. And in search of a spy, he…
Read More...This is my telling of how the Sharpe series began and how it has evolved over nearly thirty years. This booklet also contains the short essay Cakes and Ale that helps to explain some of the murkier wellsprings from which Sharpe emerged.
Read More...Sharpe’s Fury is based on the real events of the winter of 1811 that led to the extraordinary victory of Barossa.
It is the late summer of 1810 and the French mount their third and most threatening invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe, with his company of redcoats and riflemen, meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco where, despite a stunning victory, the French are not stopped. Sharpe’s Escape slots between Sharpe’s Gold and Sharpe’s Battle.