Closed off for half a century by the generals, there is a shortage of writing about this richly diverse country available in English – but there are some gems
May 2019
From the Guardian archive
Dirty dog: George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman reviewed - archive, 1969
22 May 1969 The first instalment of Harry Flashman’s life is vastly and mock-cynically amusing, and good history besides
May 2015
Lost novel of Flashman Papers creator to be published for first time
Seven years after the death of George MacDonald Fraser, his novel about the pirate Calico Jack, written 60 years ago, will finally be published
August 2014
Tips, links and suggestions
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
March 2014
Top 10s
The top 10 impostors in fiction
From the Wizard of Oz to Tom Ripley, novelist Stephen May unmasks literature's most compelling pretenders
June 2011
Notes and queries
Notes and queries
The rocketing cost of putting a man on the moon; The sheer drama of Radio 4; Flashman and The Prisoner of Zenda
May 2011
Response
Flashman's elitist idea of public schools is still pure fiction
Patrick Derham
Response: Here at his old school, Rugby, we have always supported less privileged pupils, says Patrick Derham
July 2008
George Macdonald Fraser
"It may be tripe but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act."
January 2008
History? Got it in a Flash
George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser
Author of popular Flashman novels dies at 82
April 2005
Three cheers for the cad
Simon Beckett gives a warm welcome back to George MacDonald Fraser's coward, cheat and war hero, up to his neck in it as usual in Flashman on the March.
June 2002
Flash goes to the movies
DJ Taylor on George MacDonald Fraser's happy memories of Hollywood, The Light's On at Signpost
