George MacDonald Fraser has died.

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

But next to the picture of Flashman in the Telegraph is another story entitled '20 schoolgirls get pregnant everyday'. Arf!

Damn his eyes, the rotten bounder!

I clicked on the thread thinking "who is he?" and have just realised thanks to your reference to Flashman. Nice sub-editing by the Telegraph!

Thank God for MNers who actually read the paper - I would bumble through life entirely oblivious otherwise...

Confession - I only buy a paper when I need to light the fires later...!

Ahh - we still have a small forest of packing paper for that

...ponders whether this was too high-brow or low-brow for MNs attention...

Oh what a shame.I loved the flashman books & learnt a lot more about historical happenings than I otherwise would have done.And it was more fun.

He wrote a pretty good book about boxing too,but can't remember the name.

Teenage boys who aren't interested in history should be given Flashman novels.

Was the boxing one Black Ajax?

having a dram to him, later