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Historical person
1804–1881
Benjamin Disraeli was a British Conservative politician, novelist and twice prime minister during the reign of Queen Victoria. He helped reshape the Conservative Party, promoted the Second Reform Act of 1867, pursued an assertive imperial foreign policy and became a central rival of William Gladstone.
George MacDonald Fraser’s Flash for Freedom! places Benjamin Disraeli within a narrative shaped by social change and the pressures of ordinary life, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and political ambition and government.
Series
The George Hart novels follow a fictional soldier of mixed Irish and Zulu ancestry through the wars, politics and prejudices of the late Victorian Empire. George’s uncertain relationship with the British military establishment gives him access to power while his appearance and maternal heritage repeatedly expose the racism…
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The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
