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Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six
Dorothy Dunnett
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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About Dorothy Dunnett
Reviews for Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six
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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