Dorothy Dunnett

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The Unicorn Hunt (eBook, ePUB)

The House of Niccolo 5

Beschreibung

The exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to Dorothy Dunnett's revered Lymond Chronicles, following the ancestors of Francis Crawford of Lymond in Continental Europe. The Unicorn Hunt is Book Five in The House of Niccolo series. ----------------------------- 'Rich, newly wed, with a palatial banking house, a busy fleet, a small army, why should Nicholas vander Poele choose to travel to Edinburgh?' That is the question on everyone's lips in the Autumn of 1468 - especially those of his enemy, Simon de St Pol of Kilmirren, who seeks nothing less than the destruction of the House of Niccolo and its cunning head. But Nicholas soon proves that there are very good mercantile reasons for expanding his trading empire into the north. They also help to conceal his attempts to discover the true father of the child his vengeful wife insists is not his own. From Scotland to the Tyrol, Cairo to Cyprus, Nicholas pursues a truth that many fear will destroy him and everything he has tried to build . . . 'Terrifically exciting. Some wonderful set-pieces and a cliff-hanging climax' The Times

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Autor

Dorothy Dunnett was born in 1923 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her time at Gillespie's High School for Girls overlapped with that of the novelist Muriel Spark. From 1940-1955, she worked for the Civil Service as a press officer. In 1946, she married Alastair Dunnett, later editor of The Scotsman. Dunnett started writing in the late 1950s. Her first novel, The Game of Kings, was published in the United States in 1961, and in the United Kingdom the year after. She published 22 books in total, including the six-part Lymond Chronicles and the eight-part Niccolo Series, and co-authored another volume with her husband. Also an accomplished professional portrait painter, Dunnett exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy on many occasions and had portraits commissioned by a number of prominent public figures in Scotland. She also led a busy life in public service, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland, a Trustee of the Scottish National War Memorial, and Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival. She served on numerous cultural committees, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1992 she was awarded the Office of the British Empire for services to literature. She died on November 9, 2001, at the age of 78.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141949314
• Artikelnr.: 39188481

Rezensionen

"The finest living writer of historical fiction" - The Washington Post Book World

"Alive with spectacle and pageantry....[Her] army of fans...should continue to swell.... Dunnett has done it again." - The Washington Post Book World

"Another rousing, utterly convincing adventure.... Readers are bound to ask for more." - Kirkus Reviews