Flashman

The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of "Tom Brown's Schooldays", after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including "The General Danced at Dawn". Review If ever there was a time when I felt that watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet stuff, it was when I read the first FlashmanP.G. Wodehouse'There is a little of Flashman in all of us but not enough.'Evening Standard'The Flashman Papers do what all great sagas do winning new admirers along the way but never, ever betraying old ones. It is an immense achievement.'Sunday Telegraph'In our crass, humourless, anaemic, politically correct age, there could be no better tonic or treat than the outrageous Flashy's bold descriptions of action in battle or bedroom. To relish George MacDonald Fraser is to rediscover the joy of reading.'Daily TelegraphEverything we expect from a Flashman adventure is here: lechery, double-crossing, real people, the epic poltroonery from which Flashman emerges as saviour of the hourmy one complaint about the series surely the great mock-historical romp of the past half-century is that MacDonald Fraser does not add to it often enough.'Mail on SundayThanks to Frasers passion for history, his rare gift for rattling narrative and his infectious delight in robust, rollicking language, we can rejoice in a work of genius worthy of being ranked with there can be no higher accolade P.G. WodehouseDaily Telegraph About the Author The author of the famous 'Flashman Papers' and the 'Private McAuslan' stories, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition to his novels he has also written numeous films, most notably 'The Three Musketeers', 'The Four Musketeers', and the James Bond film, 'Octopussy'.