This is an impertinent question. I should say first – however – that I have enjoyed some of your work, particularly the final novel in the Grail series. The image of the rescued heretic girl dancing amidst the thunder will stay with me for a long time. You seem, unlike many so-called ‘historical’ writers, to be aware of Christendom as Christendom, i.e. amongst other things, to admit the possibility of religious motivation in the characters you place in that time frame. My question is not to do with that however, but with the propriety of calling yourself ‘Britain’s Storyteller’ whilst almost entirely ignoring the specifically Celtic past. Arthur turns up in a very Anglicised form: a novel series entitled ‘Lords of the North’ (which I freely admit I have not read) appears to be about Norsemen in the north of England: your obvious fascination with ‘outsiders’ doesn’t seem to extend itself to the real outsiders in Anglo culture – the Highlanders. Yours impertinently…. Hamish Robertson