Hello and welcome back to Chronicles, where today we're going to be talking all about the second novel of the Flashman paper's Royal Flash. And once again,

who better to discuss it with then are the office's very own scoundrel and man of the world.

Dan, thank you, Dan. Arrah. Nice Sabre. Thank you. I thought it appropriate for the subject matter.

Yes. So, look, it's been obviously a good number of episodes now since we sat down and discussed the first, the OG.

Have the audience been good enough to get another Flashman book?

We are definitely backed by popular demand.

In fact, there's a whole sort of little series that I've started, I've sewed the seeds of.

Like, I think episode 10 of Chronicles, Bo and I covered the first of the Master and Commander novels.

Oh, they're right. Yeah, I'll give me that. I just haven't got round to getting to the next one.

And then there's Sharp and Hornblower all. Yes, they're quite good as well.

But the thing was with this.

And I do love those.

And I really do want to return to them at some point.

Yeah.

So, you know, we've done Macbeth.

We've done, you know, more ancient Greek stuff.

We've just, I've had a great time here.

But for months now, I've been just like Sack just thinking, God, I want to read the next Flashman novel, you know.

Of course you do, sir.

So here we are talking all about Royal Flash.

Now, this one came out the year after in 1970.

And intriguingly as well, is the only Flashman novel

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