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With a pull of a single lever, my copy of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life would be whisked away, to be replaced by Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, while my library of the very un-PC Flashman ...
One of Bill Slim’s soldiers was George MacDonald Fraser, whom I knew and adored, as did millions of fans of his Flashman books. In his fine memoir Quartered Safe Out Here, George described how one May ...
Flashman, was rescued from obscurity and transformed into one of the finest, most magnificently written, ignominious bastards in fiction by Scots writer George Macdonald Fraser. He is also one of ...
Manx Radio's Terry Cringle - who also read the eulogy at Fraser's funeral in 2008 - took the opportunity to sit down with him and ask about his life and career. On Air Indie Setlist Simon Quine ...
Years later, Scottish writer George MacDonald Fraser wrote several novels in which the anti-hero Harry Flashman ends up upholding British interests. In contrast, Mayne Lindsay’s stories occupied ...
Last broadcast over 20 years ago, this is a right royal historical romp written by George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman novels. With Vivienne Dixon as the Queen, Crawford Logan as ...
Time to call in Mistress Phoebe Fosdyke, Secret Agent. A right royal historical romp by written by George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman novels.
In this month's Low Culture Essay, he mourns its loss, and reflects on the nature of its art In this month's Low Culture essay, commissioned exclusively for tQ subscribers, Harry Sword makes the case ...
Adapted by Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser and scored by Michel Legrand, it’s an enduringly popular tale of Machiavellian politics, passionate loyalties and incriminating stolen diamonds.
One of literature’s finest anti-heroes, he is the subject and first person narrator of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman Papers novels, each a maximalist bacchanalian feast of sex, violence and ...
The actual strip opened on a right hand page in the “boost” issue of the long-running comic Cadman was based on George Macdonald Fraser’s Flashman, a cowardly army officer of the Victorian period, and ...