The first unpublished novel from the historical fiction legend, George Macdonald Fraser, featuring the unscrupulous and brilliantly entertaining pirate, Calico Jack Rackham.
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This author is renowned for his historical novel series, presented as the purportedly written memoirs of Harry Flashman. Flashman, originally conceived as a coward and bully, looks back on his adventuring days as a hero within the 19th-century British Army. The novels are celebrated for their meticulous historical accuracy and a distinctive narrative voice that has captivated literary critics. These works offer a unique lens on history through a protagonist whose motivations are often far from heroic.
- 2016
- 2009
The Book of Glasgow Murders
- 181 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A compendium of lesser-known murder stories involving cases spanning the larger part of the 20th century. Featuring 10 unsolved murders, it starts in 1919 with the East End Cop Killing and concludes with the unsolved Daniel Blair Murder of 1962.
- 2009
Flashman
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
"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 Flashman."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in the Flashman series Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. This humorous adventure book will appeal to fans of historical fiction, military fiction, and British history as well as to fans of Clive Cussler, James Bond, and The Three Musketeers.
- 2006
Flashman and the Dragon
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.
- 2006
Flashman and the Redskins
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.
- 2006
The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. Part of the FLASHMAN series, comprising FLASHMAN, ROYAL FLASH and FLASH FOR FREEDOM, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.
- 2006
Flashman in the Great Game
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
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.
- 2006
Flashman on the March
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 inthe long-awaited twelfth installment of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers.
- 2006
The tenth novel in the Flashman series. Flashman's efforts land him in one of the tightest corners of his inglorious but not unexciting career. Contributing to igniting the US Civil War, he's saved by a dusky beauty. He can be relied on to live down his reputation in bed and battle.
- 2000
The Complete McAuslan
- 608 pages
- 22 hours of reading
George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army - collected together for the first time in one volume.
