First of all I would like to add my congratulations on your OBE. It’s nice to see them awarded to people who genuinely deseve them and not just sports personalities who haven’t even won anything! I’ve just come back from a trip so i finally have the time to read Lords of the north. So far so good. I recently re-read the warlord chronicles, I still really love it but it’s frustrating because so much stuff goes wrong in the story. My question is, despite the massive historical drawbacks were you at all tempted to change a few things, and make the outcome a bit happier? The characters didn’t deserve what they got, and you know it! again, congrats. James Trethowan