Lords of the North–magnificent! I just read it, and I’m almost breathless. Please take no time to reply, just keep on writing! Please also store this away: I’m an ex-pat Yorkshireman living in Philadelphia, and if ever you pass through the city I would relish the opportunity to feed you a fine meal and, over a dram perhaps, talk about Cwm Isaf, where my cousin Carol lives in a small Elizabethan cottage, among mists, woods and wild grasses, and stories, and who first recommended your books to me. . . . Great work! May you write many books about Uhtred and his England. With best regards, Patrick