Who wrote The Sharpe Series of novels?
"Sharpe (novel series) Sharpe is a series of historical fiction stories by Bernard Cornwell centered on the character of Richard Sharpe. The stories formed the basis for an ITV television series featuring Sean Bean in the title role. Cornwell's series is composed of several novels and short stories, and charts Sharpe's progress in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He begins in Sharpe's Tiger as a private in the 33rd Regiment of Foot who becomes a Sergeant by the end of the book; he is an Ensign in the 74th Regiment during Sharpe's Trafalgar who is transferred to the"
"Sharpe's Sword (novel) Sharpe's Sword is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. It is the fourth in the series, being first published in 1983, though the story is the fourteenth in Sharpe's chronology, set in the summer campaign of 1812 including the Battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812. Sharpe and his friend Sergeant Harper find themselves in a secret war of spies, while hunting down the sadistic and highly dangerous Colonel Philippe Leroux. Colonel Philippe Leroux and Captain Paul Delmas are fleeing from the King's German Legion toward Sharpe's Light Company. Leroux has just"
"provided the challenge the author felt necessary to establish the reputations of both Sharpe and his close friend, Sergeant Patrick Harper. Sharpe's Eagle (novel) Sharpe's Eagle is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1981. The story is set in July 1809, in the midst of the Talavera Campaign during the Peninsular War. It was the first Sharpe novel published, but eighth in the series' chronological order. In subsequent re-publications, ""Sharpe's Rifles"" was numbered as the ""first"" novel in the original series (ending with ""Sharpe's Waterloo""), while ""Eagle"" was numbered as the second."
"other variations to the novel. Sharpe's Sword (novel) Sharpe's Sword is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. It is the fourth in the series, being first published in 1983, though the story is the fourteenth in Sharpe's chronology, set in the summer campaign of 1812 including the Battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812. Sharpe and his friend Sergeant Harper find themselves in a secret war of spies, while hunting down the sadistic and highly dangerous Colonel Philippe Leroux. Colonel Philippe Leroux and Captain Paul Delmas are fleeing from the King's German Legion toward Sharpe's"
"Tom Sharpe Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his ""Wilt"" series, as well as ""Porterhouse Blue"" and ""Blott on the Landscape,"" which were both adapted for television. Sharpe was born in Holloway, London, and brought up in Croydon. Sharpe's father, the Reverend George Coverdale Sharpe, was a Unitarian minister who was active in far-right politics in the 1930s. He was chairman of the Acton and Ealing branch of The Link, and a member of the Nordic League. He declared that he hated Jews ""in the sense that he"
"Sharpe's Rifles (novel) Sharpe's Rifles is chronologically the sixth, but the ninth published, historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1988. Lt. Richard Sharpe is involved in the French Invasion of Galicia, Spain in January 1809. The story recounts Sharpe's exploits in the retreat to Corunna. Sharpe's battalion, acting as rearguard to the army, are cut down by a squadron of French regular cavalry. Sharpe takes up Captain Murray's heavy cavalry sword after the Captain dies. Patrick Harper chooses to fight the tall lieutenant; their encounter is stopped by Blas Vivar, who aids Sharpe"
"Sharpe's Revenge (novel) Sharpe's Revenge is the nineteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series written by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1989. The peace of 1814 formally ends the Peninsular War, but it does not end all hostilities among individuals. In 1814 Richard Sharpe and his second wife Jane are on bad terms over Sharpe's imminent duel with Captain Bampfylde, resulting from the latter's cowardice in the previous novel, ""Sharpe's Siege"". As duelling is illegal, Jane fears that Sharpe may lose either his life or his military career. She is keenly looking forward to the end of the war,"
"Sharpe's Eagle (novel) Sharpe's Eagle is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1981. The story is set in July 1809, in the midst of the Talavera Campaign during the Peninsular War. It was the first Sharpe novel published, but eighth in the series' chronological order. In subsequent re-publications, ""Sharpe's Rifles"" was numbered as the ""first"" novel in the original series (ending with ""Sharpe's Waterloo""), while ""Eagle"" was numbered as the second. 1809: During the Talavera Campaign, Sir Arthur Wellesley's army has entered Spain to confront Marshal Victor, Richard Sharpe and his small"
"Sharpe's Prey Sharpe's Prey is the fifth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2001. The story is set in 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars . Second Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is sent to Copenhagen in 1807 with the job of protecting a nobleman on a secret mission. Sharpe soon discovers that his task is complicated by traitors, spies and the bombardment of Copenhagen. The year is 1807, and Richard Sharpe is back in England, where his army career is at an end. Without love, destitute, and relegated to the job of quartermaster, Sharpe is"
"Sharpe's Christmas (story collection) Sharpe's Christmas, is a short story collection by historical fiction author Bernard Cornwell which he began conceptualising in 1980s. It contains two stories featuring Cornwell's fictional hero Richard Sharpe. It was published by The Sharpe Appreciation Society in 2003 in order to raise funds for The Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation. This novel contains two stories that take place at different times, thus in an interview with the author, the book was left unnumbered in the Sharpe’s series. The two short stories, ""Sharpe's Christmas"" and ""Sharpe's Ransom"", contained within this book were originally written for British"
"Sharpe's Battle (novel) Sharpe's Battle is the twelfth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1995. The story is set during the Peninsular War in Spain in 1811. Near the Spanish-Portuguese border, Sharpe and his company meet a group of French soldiers in grey uniforms, caught in the act of raping a young Spanish villager. Their leader Brigadier-General Guy Loup arranges a parlay to retrieve his men, but Sharpe, appalled by the rape and massacre of all the other villagers, including children, orders the French prisoners shot. Loup swears revenge against Sharpe. Back at"
"Sharpe's Devil Sharpe's Devil is the twenty-first and final historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series written by Bernard Cornwell and published in 1993. The story is set in 1820, with Sharpe and Harper en route to Chile to find their old friend Blas Vivar. Along the way they encounter the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte and the Scottish former Royal Navy officer Lord Cochrane. Doña Louisa Vivar, whom Sharpe befriended in ""Sharpe's Rifles"", visits the Sharpe farm and asks the former rifleman to sail to Chile in search of her husband, Don Blas Vivar, who has disappeared while serving as Captain-General"
"Sharpe's Honour (novel) Sharpe's Honour is the sixteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1985. In the Vitoria Campaign of the Peninsula War in 1813, Sharpe is framed for murder. He must find a way to clear his name to preserve the fragile alliance between Britain and Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Major Pierre Ducos plans to make a peace between France and Spain, depriving the British of their allies in the Peninsula and forcing them to withdraw. He forms an alliance with the Spanish priest Father Hacha and his brother, the partisan"
"at the end and Ducos' death is altered, with Sharpe shooting him from a distance as he tries to escape. Lucille's pregnancy was also left out, since the adaptation was followed by another original story, ""Sharpe's Justice"", and ends with Sharpe and Harper saying goodbye to Lucille and returning to England. Sharpe's Revenge (novel) Sharpe's Revenge is the nineteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series written by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1989. The peace of 1814 formally ends the Peninsular War, but it does not end all hostilities among individuals. In 1814 Richard Sharpe and his second wife"
"Sharpe's Skirmish ""Sharpe's Skirmish"" is a historical short story by Bernard Cornwell in the Richard Sharpe series. ""Sharpe's Skirmish"" was first written in 1998. British bookseller W. H. Smith devised the idea of giving away a Sharpe short story with every copy of ""Sharpe's Fortress"", possibly why ""Sharpe’s Skirmish"" often refers to events that happened in the latter book. Only a few thousand copies were originally published, however an edition has been republished by the Sharpe Appreciation Society. This short story occurs after ""Sharpe's Sword"" and before ""Sharpe’s Enemy"" in the summer of 1812 and Sharpe must guard a Commissary"
"home for good. Fictional Historical Sharpe's Devil Sharpe's Devil is the twenty-first and final historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series written by Bernard Cornwell and published in 1993. The story is set in 1820, with Sharpe and Harper en route to Chile to find their old friend Blas Vivar. Along the way they encounter the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte and the Scottish former Royal Navy officer Lord Cochrane. Doña Louisa Vivar, whom Sharpe befriended in ""Sharpe's Rifles"", visits the Sharpe farm and asks the former rifleman to sail to Chile in search of her husband, Don Blas Vivar, who has"
"Sharpe's Tiger Sharpe's Tiger is the first historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell and was first published in 1997. Sharpe is a private in the British army serving in India at Seringapatam. The first, chronologically, of the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. This and the succeeding two novels set in India provide the back story to Sharpe's army life, filling in the stories mentioned in the later novels set in the Napoleonic wars in Europe and showing how this private began his climb up the ranks of the British army, a possible but rare event"
"The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles"" September 2014 / 9780007539383 (UK edition) Publisher William Collins Bernard Cornwell bibliography Bernard Cornwell's career started in 1981 with ""Sharpe's Eagle"". He has been a prolific historical novelist since then having published more than 50 novels. Cornwell's best known books feature the adventures of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The first 11 books of the Sharpe series (beginning in chronological order with ""Sharpe's Rifles"" and ending with ""Sharpe's Waterloo"", published in the US as ""Waterloo"") detail Sharpe's adventures in various Peninsular War campaigns over the course"
"Sharpe's Waterloo (novel) Sharpe's Waterloo is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. Originally published in 1990 under the title ""Waterloo"", it is the eleventh and final novel of the ""original"" Sharpe series (beginning with ""Sharpe's Eagle""), and the twentieth novel in chronological order. Napoleon having escaped from Elba, Richard Sharpe leaves his farm in Normandy to rejoin the British Army, and is created a Lieutenant Colonel of a Dutch-Belgian cavalry regiment, a sinecure to give him standing as one of the Prince of Orange's staff officers. Sharpe's lover Lucille has followed him to Belgium with"
"to his national military service and marriage. Eventually he married four times. He ultimately relocated to London with the intention of becoming a writer. One of his screenplays was broadcast on British television in 1963, and his play ""A Knight in Tarnished Armour"" was broadcast in 1965. His first novel, ""A Green Tree in Gedde"", was published in 1965 to acclaim and won the 1967 Scottish Arts Council Award. It was the first part of a proposed trilogy, and Sharp published the second novel, ""The Wind Shifts"", in 1967. The third novel, which had the working title ""The Apple Pickers"","
"Sharpe's Gold (novel) Sharpe's Gold is the ninth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell first published in 1981. The story is set in August 1810 and features the destruction of Almeida during the Peninsular War. Major Michael Hogan orders Sharpe to find out what happened to Claud Hardy, one of his exploring officers, who was sent to locate the gold thought to be in the fictional hamlet of Casatejada. Sharpe sets off with the men of his small company as his sole military support and links up with Major Kearsey, another of Hogan's exploring officers. It"
"Sharpe's Escape Sharpe's Escape is the tenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2004. Sharpe is embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the ridge at Bussaco to the Lines of Torres Vedras, where the French offensive is successfully halted. Captain Richard Sharpe is threatened as commander of the South Essex Regiment Light Company by the family politics of the regiment's commanding officer. While the British and their Portuguese allies see off the French assault at Bussaco, Sharpe becomes embroiled in a private feud with the Portuguese criminal"
"Sharpe's Christmas Sharpe's Christmas, is a short story by historical fiction author Bernard Cornwell. It features Cornwell's fictional hero Richard Sharpe. It was originally written for British newspaper ""The Daily Mail"" which serialised it during the Christmas season of 1994. An extended version was published by The Sharpe Appreciation Society in a short story collection of the same name in 2003 to raise funds for The Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation. ""Sharpe's Christmas"" is set in 1813, towards the end of the Peninsular War and falls after Sharpe's Regiment. Major Richard Sharpe and the Prince of Wales Own Volunteers have"
"Sharpe's Regiment (novel) Sharpe's Regiment is the seventeenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1986. The story is set in England as Sharpe looks for the missing Second Battalion of the South Essex Regiment needed in Spain to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. The South Essex Regiment is in need of recruits so Nairn grants Sharpe permission to return to England to find if the regiment's second battalion has the men needed. Sharpe heads to the battalion headquarters with Harper, D'Alembord and Price and finds only a few wounded men but is told"
"Sharpe's Company Sharpe's Company is the thirteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1982. The story is set January to August 1812 featuring the Siege of Badajoz during the Peninsular War. The story begins with the British Army's assault on Ciudad Rodrigo, the northern barrier into Spain. Sharpe and Harper lead an assault on the French, displaying their usual bravery. Unfortunately, during the assault Sharpe's commander and friend Colonel William Lawford is severely wounded when a mine is detonated. He loses an arm and retires from his post as commander of the South"
"until they fell out over a woman. Sharpe's time in South Africa inspired his novels ""Riotous Assembly"" and ""Indecent Exposure"", in which he mocked the apartheid regime. He also wrote a play, ""The South African"", which was critical of the regime. After it was performed in London, Sharpe was arrested and deported from South Africa. After returning to England, Sharpe took a position as a history lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, later Anglia Ruskin University. This experience inspired his ""Wilt"" series in which he derides popular English culture. From 1995 onward he and his American wife"
"subjected to a brutal and merciless bombardment. This book is notable because it contains the first brief appearance of Patrick Harper, later to become Sharpe's close companion. Sharpe's Prey Sharpe's Prey is the fifth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2001. The story is set in 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars . Second Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is sent to Copenhagen in 1807 with the job of protecting a nobleman on a secret mission. Sharpe soon discovers that his task is complicated by traitors, spies and the bombardment of Copenhagen. The year is 1807,"
"to the novel. This is Bernard Cornwell's second novel and according to the author the hardest to write. It was written as a warm-up for his ""series of tales about the adventures of a British rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars"". It was published in the same year, and just ten months after, the first novel. Sharpe's Gold (novel) Sharpe's Gold is the ninth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell first published in 1981. The story is set in August 1810 and features the destruction of Almeida during the Peninsular War. Major Michael Hogan orders Sharpe to"
"is set in peacetime providing a glimpse of Sharpe's life in Normandy with Lucille. Sharpe's Ransom Sharpe's Christmas contains two short stories, ""Sharpe's Christmas"" and ""Sharpe's Ransom"", written by historical fiction author Bernard Cornwell. They feature Cornwell's fictional hero Richard Sharpe. Originally, the first short-story, ""Sharpe's Christmas"", was written for British newspaper ""The Daily Mail"" which serialised it during the Christmas season of 1995. Later, in an effort to raise funds for The Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation, an extended version was published by The Sharpe Appreciation Society in 2003 to add ""Sharpe's Ransom"" into a collection of the two"
"charges were repeated during Sharp's 1825 General Assembly campaign, opponents publicized the allegation that the child was a mulatto. Whether Sharp made such a claim, or whether it was a rumor started by his political enemies, remains in doubt. Jereboam Beauchamp, who had married Cooke in 1824, avenged the honor of his wife by fatally stabbing Sharp at his home early on the morning of November 7, 1825. Sharp's murder inspired fictional works, most notably Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished play ""Politian"" and Robert Penn Warren's novel ""World Enough and Time"" (1950). Solomon Sharp was born on August 22, 1787, at"
"Sharpe's Siege (novel) Sharpe's Siege is the eighteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell first published in 1987. The story is set on the Atlantic coast of France in the Napoleonic wars during the British Invasion of France in 1814. Major Richard Sharpe joins a combined naval and infantry expedition to the French coast with the intention of capturing a fortress and several ""chasse-marées"", and inciting a monarchist rebellion in Bordeaux. The mission is intended primarily as a diversionary action to draw French forces from defense against a British crossing of the Adour River, but Sharpe"
"Margery Sharp Clara Margery Melita Sharp (25 January 1905 – 14 March 1991), was an English author of 26 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, and numerous short stories. Her most famous work is ""The Rescuers"" series about a mouse named Miss Bianca, which was later adapted in two animated feature films, ""The Rescuers"" and ""The Rescuers Down Under"" by Disney. Sharp was born in the district of Salisbury in the county of Wiltshire, England, although her family originated from northern Yorkshire. She spent part of her childhood in Malta, a period she later drew on"
"establishes that Nate the Great and the girl detective Olivia Sharp are cousins. She is the heroine of a 1989–1991 series of four books sometimes called ""Olivia Sharp, Agent for Secrets"", written by Marjorie and Mitchell Sharmat and illustrated by Denise Brunkus. The first twenty volumes were illustrated by Marc Simont. The latest eight volumes were chapter books ""in the style of Marc Simont"". Olivia Sharp is a girl detective and Nate's cousin. Her four stories were written by the husband-and-wife team Mitchell and Marjorie Sharmat, illustrated by Denise Brunkus, and published by Delacorte Press. The titles are sometimes styled"