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The Reavers
BY GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
HARPERCOLLINS, pounds 18.99, 230 pp
T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
'This book is nonsense,' admits George MacDonald Fraser.
'It is meant to be.' The veteran novelist toys with describing The Reavers as 'an octogenarian's rebuke to a generation which has become obsessed with misery and disaster', but is not even willing to go that far. Like The Pyrates, an earlier essay in comic fantasy, the novel is 'wildly over the top, written for the fun of it', and it is in that spirit that he offers his readers this light-hearted Elizabethan romp, set...