Some people say they have gone metric: I mean it. (View Post)

Surely you would bet on the knight? (View Post)

I expect most writers have, as you put it, complex lives. Lovecraft, for instance, was someone that early 20th century white Americans thought was a bit on the racist side. (View Post)

Just to add a point about the Sharpe books: one of the things I particularly like about them is the bit at the end where he tells you which bits actually happened (at least as far as history recorded… (View Post)

My knowledge of the Napoleonic Wars is from a combination of the Sharpe novels and the Patrick O'Brian ones. (View Post)