Mr. American

And there I was thinking that I’d read everything George MacDonald Fraser wrote about Flashman. The reason this novel leapt off the shelf at me at the local book emporium, was the realisation that Harry Flashman played some part in this tale. The blurb to my copy reads “even old General Flashman, who......more

What a remarkable read. On the face of it, a simple tale which tells the story of a mysterious American who arrives in England, in 1909, with a small fortune and a checkered past. But it is set against the backdrop of an era in England, and indeed the world, where changes in industry and warfare wou......more

"And to those imagined people on the road away, so very long ago, who had travelled so far and so well, so that he might travel back, and in the way of things, set out again." (pg. 550) The cover of George MacDonald Fraser's novel Mr. American includes one line cherry-picked from a review in The Time......more

In my opinion, this is GMF best work of fiction. Better than Flashman. It is a picture of Britain in the years just before the First World War with all the beauty and cynicism portrayed through the eyes of a visiting American. Utterly superb.......more