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From: The Spectator
Date: 20050326
Author:Mount, Harry

Harry Mount asks George MacDonald Fraser whether Flashman is a coward as well as a cad

'Flashman's just a monster,' says George MacDonald Fraser. 'He's extremely unpleasant but he knows how to present a front to the world, and at least he's honest about himself. But that was because he assumed that his memoirs would never be published.'

I'd just been putting to the author of the Flashman novels the theory of this magazine's editor: that far from being a scoundrel, Flashman - the fag-roasting rotter thrown out of Rugby in Torn Brown's Schooldays only to pop up in the great historic moments of ...

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