Dear Sir, I am compelled to write (in fact my father is insisting upon it...with good reason!) and tell you how much we have thoroughly enjoyed the audio version of Lords of the North, read by Richard Armitage. So much so, that, having listened to it...each of us individually, and then again, whiling away the wee small hours, red eyed and huddled against the next eager recipient's bedroom door like some perverted lurker in order to savour it yet again...on reaching the final side, each of us delayed the playing of it, fearful of reaching the end when life, such as it is, Uhtred-less, would return to the comparatively blandness of modern reality. We are also Sharpe addicts (who isn't?!) and have loved the combination of your genius and Sean Bean's...well, Sean Beaniness...and for us, Richard Sharpe and his beloved cronies are practically family! In the same vein, unanimous family consensus is that if ever a screen version were planned for the Saxon stories (fingers crossed - TV needs something a cut above the usual dross we are bombarded with) then certainly Richard Armitage would be the one we voted for to bring Uhtred to life! I am also required to enquire whether Mr Armitage is likely to narrate any future volumes? He, like Mr Bean, animates the story so vividly that, to be honest, no actual pictures are necessary. Incidentally, there was a history show on tv recently which showed a particular length of Hadrian's wall...we all fell silent and gazed in wonder until the view changed and then, all together we exclaimed, "THAT was EXACTLY how I pictured the betrayal scene with the slave pens and the ruin on the hill, and the shingle shore where Sverry came for poor Uhtred..." Clever stuff, Mr Cornwell! We would like to thank you for all your hard work in producing these wonderful tales...they are most definitely appreciated, Your health, The Medlock Family, West Yorkshire.