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26%OFFDorothy Dunnett - Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six - 9780140282382 - V9780140282382
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Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six

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Description for Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six Paperback. Part of the "Lymond Chronicles", Dorothy Dunnett's series of six novels, this text explores the intricacies of 16th-century history through the exploits of the soldier Francis Crawford of Lymond. Series: The Lymond Chronicles. Num Pages: 688 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 42. Weight in Grams: 490.

Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . .

THE PERFECT GIFT for fans of A Game of Thrones.

'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come to care deeply about.' The Times Literary Supplement

Checkmate is the sixth and final book in the series

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'If they place the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left and ask me to give up my mission, ... Read more

It is 1557 and legendary Scottish warrior Francis Crawford of Lymond is once more in France. There he is leading an army to rout the hated English from Calais.

Yet while Lymond seeks victory on the battlefield he is haunted by his troubled past - chiefly the truth about his origins and his marriage (in name only) to young Englishwoman Philippa Somerville.

As the French offer him a way out of his marriage and his wife appears in France on a mission of her own, the final moves are made in a great game that has been playing out over an extraordinary decade of war, love and struggle - bringing the Lymond Chronicles to a spellbinding close.

'A masterpiece of historical fiction' Washington Post

'Melodrama of the most magnificent kind' The Guardian

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
The Lymond Chronicles
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140282382
SKU
V9780140282382
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-44

About Dorothy Dunnett
Frequently described as the finest historical fiction writer of her time, Dorothy Dunnett earned worldwide acclaim for her blend of scholarship and imagination. She is best known for her two superb series of historical fiction - The Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolo - set in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and ranging across Europe and the Mediterranean, and ... Read more

Reviews for Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six
Praise for Dorothy Dunnett
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A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention
New York Times
Marvellous, breathtaking
The Times
A masterpiece of historical fiction
Washington Post
One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lashings of excitement, colour and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six


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