A tale untold

“But there is a Flashman story kicking around about Australia and the South Seas. It’s very vague in my mind at the moment, but it’s certainly a possibility.”



George MacDonald Fraser, OBE, novelist, screenwriter and historian
2 April, 1925 - 2 January, 2008




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Not the slightest desire

 "No, I've never had the slightest desire to be like Flashman and I think my military experience killed any particular idea of derring-do.There was a young lady this morning at a book shop who told me about playing a game at a dinner party asking men who they would like to be and three of them said Flashman. Now, I don't know that they'd thought hard about it, but I don't think they'd really like to be Flashman."


George MacDonald Fraser, OBE, novelist, screenwriter and historian
2 April, 1925 - 2 January, 2008


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Bye George

They're [readers] disappointed to find that I'm not six feet two inches tall and extremely handsome and distinguished looking. For one thing, I'm not English, I'm Scottish. And I'm writing about this polished, charming English cad and I'm obviously not. To that extent, it is a disappointment. No, I'm not like him. I couldn't stand the pace. Who could?


George MacDonald Fraser, OBE, novelist, screenwriter and historian
2 April, 1925 - 2 January, 2008

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Requiescat in pace

“I’m just a storyteller, an entertainer, but George is something much more than that,” Cornwell says. “There is in Flashman a wisdom, a deeper truth, that you probably won’t find in Sharpe. I tend to make my characters heroic, whereas George, because he has ‘seen the elephant’, knows better than that. Those who’ve never been to war think it’s a boy’s game and a big adventure. George knows that what it’s really about is terror and fear and horrible accidents.”

The thinking woman’s scoundrel, The Sunday Times, January 6, 2008.

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Vale George MacDonald Fraser

We all live under false pretences. You just have to put on a bold front and brazen it through.

George MacDonald Fraser, OBE, novelist and screenwriter
2 April, 1925 - 2 January, 2008