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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140282399

RRP: £18.99

PAGES: 528

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 25, 1999

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The Game of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles

Dorothy Dunnett

The opening book in the world famous “Lymond Chronicles”, Dorothy Dunnett’s bestselling series. Lymond is back …the whisper spreads quickly on that warm August night in 1547. Francis Crawford of Lymond, and outlawed rebel, is in Edinburgh again …and his arrival in Scotland ignites a series of explosive events. Against a background of political intrigue and violence, Lymond is tracking three men, one of whom holds the only answer he can give to the world, the parliaments and the men who condemned him.

Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Dunnett is the author of the Lymond Chronicles and the on-going House of Niccolo series. She was awarded the OBE for her services to literature in 1992. She was married to the late Sir Alastair Dunnett, and lives in Edinburgh.

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