GMFwimb. 'Tis with heavy heart I report I am on the final Flashman novel "Flashman on the March" and

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

on completion will have read each tale of this quite brilliant body of work.

However, some parts of this novel just don't 'sound' like Flashy. I wondered was there ever any suggestion that parts of the manuscript were ghost written due to George's illness?

A lot of it is clearly GMF's inimitable style but it's the opening two chapters, strangely, whose provenance I doubt.

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

remarkable works. The Light's On At Signpost is a little... extreme, in places, but good value overall.

I thought the Flashman stuff was for children, I confess. There was a good one about Madagscar, but it wasn't very grown up.

[7evens]

Fantastic story teller. Those books were also incredibly well researched.
Purchased Black Ajax a while back but haven't yet got round to reading it.

[Snin]

[Snin]

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Richmond and Tom Molineaux.

Which everyone should watch.

I've argued with Black History Month types about Bill Richmond - who performed the guard of honour at George IV's coronation - and Walter Tull being much more likely to get black kids into history than Mary Seacole.

Read Black Ajaz. And don't get put off by the first 2-3 chapters. Once we get to England, it rips.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

when they are then taught to analyse it as a primary source.

And Black Ajax would get black kids into history far more than Mary Seacole.

That West Indian academic, David Dabydeen, is almost in tears in that drama-doc about it (I linked above) when he describes what it would have meant for an ex-slave to have formed pat of the guard of honour at George IV's coronation in 1820.

It should be taught at schools.