Flashman And The Dragon mentioned in Mail Online

Peter Hitchens’ blog (The Mail Online) has a book review on The Death Of Mao, which, apart from its eponymous subject, illuminates the little known but disastrous Tangshan earthquake, which happened in the same year as Mao’s death (1976). Hitchens takes the opportunity to lament our ignorance of Chinese history generally, ancient and modern, and slips in a mention of my favourite Flashman novel: Flashman and the Dragon which is praised as thoughtful, contextual and magnificent (if bawdy).

Flashman eBooks released

A little Flashman news. Harper Collins have released all twelve Flashman titles in eBook format:

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/flashman-gets-digital.html

It’s great that they’ve included Tom Brown’s Schooldays in the mix. Of course, for it to be truly complete, the collection needs to also have:

- Tom Brown at Oxford.
- Black Ajax.
- Mr American.

These further cover the lives of Tom Brown, Scud East, Buckley Flashman (Flashman’s father) and Flashman himself (in his final appearance, as his aged self, just before World War I).