For George MacDonald Fraser the bully Flashman was easily the most interesting character in Tom Brown's Schooldays , and imaginative speculation as to what might have happened to him after his expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness ended in 12 volumes of memoirs in which Sir Harry Paget Flashman - self-confessed scoundrel, liar, cheat, thief, coward -'and, oh yes, a toady' - romps his way through decades of nineteenth-century history in a swashbuckling and often hilarious series of military and amorous adventures.

Everyman's Library, 2010.
ISBN: 9781841593258. 890 pp.
Hardcover. Fine in a fine jacket.