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Books: The Light's On At Signpost: Flashy tales of starry nights
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020518
Author:MICHAEL PYE
The Light's On At Signpost by George MacDonald Fraser HarperCollins, GBP 18.99
We have only one poet laureate of cads, and that's George MacDonald Fraser: a man who makes lovely, dashing romances out of appalling behaviour, vicious trickery, sexual opportunism and how the combination can make the world assume you must be a hero. Anyone who could invent and sustain a monster like Flashman sounds like just the man to write about the movies.
Which is what he promises to do, in this bizarrely fractured book. Half is a rant, an old codger's after-dinner growl from the fireside chair: Britain is ...
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