Books by Dorothy Dunnett and Complete Book Reviews

Dorothy Dunnett, Author Vintage Books USA $17 (544p) ISBN 978-0-679-77747-2
The fifth and sixth installments--and finale--of the Lymond Chronicles. (Sept.)
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Dorothy Dunnett, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-180812-0
Well known for her historical novels ( Niccolo Rising ; The Spring of the Lamb ), Dunnett also turns her literate pen to thrillers, producing here a sprightly but excessively convoluted tale. When a bomb goes off in the London headquarters of...
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Dorothy Dunnett, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27 (640p) ISBN 978-0-394-58629-8
Nicholas de Fleury, cosmopolitan merchant banker of late-15th century Venice, burgher of Bruges, master manipulator who craves absolute personal power, stands at the dawn of the modern age, shedding light on our own. In this sixth engrossing...
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Dorothy Dunnett, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (534p) ISBN 978-0-394-57107-2
The author of Niccol o Rising and The Spring of the Ram continues the bold adventures of Niccolo (Nicholas vanderok Poele) in this deftly drawn, complex novel of 15th-century intrigue. When Niccolo's wealthy older wife dies in Bruges, he finds...
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Dorothy Dunnett, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (519p) ISBN 978-0-394-58627-4
From the glassworks of Murano to the commercial hub of Timbuktu--and through fearsome peril on land and sea--entrepreneurship, religion, gold fever, friendship and revenge fuel this rich historical romance from a masterful raconteur. In 1464,...
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Dorothy Dunnett, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25 (656p) ISBN 978-0-394-58628-1
Last encountered in Scales of Gold , ruthlessly determined Flemish banker/knight Nicholas vander Poele, protagonist of Dunnett's House of Niccolo series, embarks on a new set of adventures that take him across late-15th century Europe from Flanders...
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Dorothy Dunnett, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (720p) ISBN 978-0-679-45478-6
Few literary projects these days rival in scope Dunnett's dazzling House of Niccol , a series of well-researched historical novels (each running over 500 pages) that propels its 15th-century hero across Turkey, Poland, Italy, France, Flanders, the...
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Dorothy Dunnett, Author, Sonny Mehta, Editor, Robert Gottlieb, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (469p) ISBN 978-0-394-56437-1
Praised for her historical novels (King Hereafter, the Francis of Lymond series), the prolific Dunnett continues with this crisp and dashing tale of venture and misadventure, the second volume of a monumental 15th century sequence. In Niccolo Rising,
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