New Releases by George Macdonald Fraser

From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life—and a way of survival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the "steel bonnets," named for their flashy helmets), who robbed and murdered in the name of family: the famous clans (or "grains")—like Elliot, Armstrong, Charlton, and Robson—romanticized by Sir Walter Scott. In The Steel Bonnets, George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels, and himself a borderer, tells the fascinating and bloody story of the reivers, their rise to power as ferocious soldiers of horse, and their surprisingly sudden fall from grace.

It’s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover. So desperate, in fact, that he embarks on a perilous secret intelligence-gathering mission to help free a group of Britons being held captive by a tyrannical Abyssinian king. Along the way, of course, are nightmare castles, brigands, massacres, rebellions, orgies, and the loveliest and most lethal women in Africa, all of which will test the limits of the great bounder’s talents for knavery, amorous intrigue, and survival. Flashman on the March—the twelfth book in George MacDonald Fraser’s ever-beloved, always scandalous Flashman Papers series--is Flashman and Fraser at their best.

This omnibus edition features the novels ''Flashman'' and ''Royal Flash'' by George MacDonald Fraser.

Biography on screenwriters in Great Britain.

The misadventures of a Highlander battalion in the 1940s.

"There is a fashionable myth that Hollywood always gets its history wrong. George MacDonald Fraser believes that it often gets it right, and that we owe a huge unacknowledged debt to the cinema as an illuminator of the story of mankind. Drawing on his experiences as an historical novelist, historian, and screenwriter, he puts the case for the costume movies - Biblical, classical, swashbuckler, imperial, Western, and even the gangster film - not only as entertainments but, at their best, as pictures of the past "more vivid than Tacitus or Gibbon or Macaulay.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dashing young Captain Avery is entrusted with the mission of transporting the fabulous Madagascar Crown from London, through treacherous waters infested with dastardly pirates, to Madagascar.

The second title in a trilogy from the internationally bestselling author of The Flashman series. Private McAuslan continues his disorderly advance, losing, soiling or destroying his equipment. Whether map-reading his erratic way through the Sahara by night or confronting Arab rioters, McAuslan''s talent for catastrophe is constant.

Private McAuslan demonstrates his unfitness for the service in The General Danced at Dawn, the first in a trilogy that could do for the Scots what P.G. Wodehouse did for the English.

Repackaged To Tie-In With Hardback Publication Of The Reavers And To Appeal To A New Generation Of George Macdonald Fraser Fans, The Pyrates Is A Swashbuckling Romp Of A Novel. The Pyrates Is All The Swashbucklers That Ever Were, Rolled Into One Great Technicoloured Pantomime Tall Ships And Desert Islands, Impossibly Gallant Adventurers And Glamorous Heroines, Buried Treasure And Black Spots, Devilish Dons And Ghastly Dungeons, Plots, Duels, Escapes, Savage Rituals, Tender Romance And Steaming Passion, All To The Accompaniment Of Ringing Steel, Thunderous Broadsides, Sweeping Film Music, And The Sound Of Cursing Extras Falling In The Water And Exchanging Period Dialogue. Even Hollywood Buccaneers Were Never Like This.

Elizabethan England, And A Dastardly Spanish Plot To Take Over The Throne Is Uncovered. It''S Up To Agent Archie Noble To Save Queen And Country In This Saucy And Swashbuckling Romp From The Bestselling Author Of The Flashman Papers And The Pyrates. Spoiled, Arrogant, Filthy Rich, And Breathtakingly Beautiful, The Young Lady Godiva Dacre Is Exiled From The Court Of Good Queen Bess (Who Can''T Abide Red-Haired Competition) To Her Lonely Estate In Distant Cumberland, Where She Looks Forward To Bullying The Peasantry And Getting Her Own Imperious Way. Little Does She Guess That The Turbulent Scottish Border Is The Last Place For An Elizabethan Heiress, Beset By Ruthless Reivers (Many Of Them Unshaven), Blackmailing Ruffians, Fiendish Spanish Plotters Intent On Regime Change And Turning Merrie England Into A Ghastly European Union Province. And No One To Rely On But Her Half-Witted Blonde School Chum, A Rugged English Superman With A Knack For Disaster, And A Dashing Highwayman Who Looks Like Errol Flynn But Has A Glasgow Accent. To Say Nothing Of Warlocks, Impersonators, Taxi-Drivers Riding Brooms, Burlesque Artists, The Drunkest Man In Scotland, And Several Quite Normal Characters Oh, Yes, Gossips, It''S All Happening In The Reavers, A Moral Tale Obviously Conceived In Some Kind Of Fit By Flashman Author George Macdonald Fraser & Well, He''S Getting On, And Was Bound To Crack Eventually. He Admits (Nay, Insists) That It''S A Crazy Story For Readers Who Love Fun For Its Own Sake.