REBELS had captured the dam that supplied electricity to Kinshasa and turned off the lights in the Congolese capital. Now they were marching on the city. Panic reigned. Pro-government thugs were going ...

The Wizard magically teleported Flashman across the continent to a slum district of Gotham City. There the penniless Flashman vowed revenge on the society. Funky Flashman was once a business associate ...

Fox is going back to the 1830s and is developing "Flashman," a movie based on the period novels by George MacDonald Fraser and setting it up with Ridley Scott's Scott Free and Peter Chernin's Chernin ...

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Dominic West has called for the “spectacularly politically incorrect” Flashman novels to be given the Hollywood film treatment and introduced to a new generation of readers. West said the books, by ...

George Macdonald Fraser, who has died aged 82, was the creator of Harry Flashman, one of the bright gems of the English comic novel. Fraser was already 44, and a long-serving journalist, when he ...

IF you’re a fan of the Flashman Papers series of books, you will be griped by the story of this British spy. The novels were written by George MacDonald Fraser and feature Harry Flashman, a soldier ...

The novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said. The popular books saw womanising anti-hero Sir Harry Flashman, fight his way ...

The novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said. The popular books saw womanising anti-hero Sir Harry Flashman, fight his way ...