The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One - Couverture souple

Dunnett, Dorothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140282394 ISBN 13 : 9780140282399

Editeur : Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

Discover the compelling and addictive adventure from one of the nation's favourite historical writers, perfect for fans of Game of Thrones

'A brilliant storyteller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night' The Times Literary Supplement
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'I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands'

1547. After five years imprisonment and exile far from his homeland, Francis Crawford of Lymond - scholar, soldier, rebel, nobleman, outlaw - returns to Edinburgh.

But for many in an already divided Scotland, where conspiracies swarm around the infant Queen Mary, he is not welcome.

Lymond is wanted for treason and murder, and he is accompanied by a band of killers and ruffians who will only bring further violence and strife.

Is he back to foment rebellion?
Does he seek revenge on those who banished him?
Or has he returned to clear his name?

No one but the enigmatic Lymond himself knows the truth - and no one will discover it until he is ready . . .
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'A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention' New York Times

'Melodrama of the most magnificent kind' Guardian

VOTED ONE OF BRITAIN'S FAVOURITE HISTORICAL NOVELS

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 for King Hereafter, the eleventh-century story of Earl Thorfinn of Orkney whom Dorothy believed was also King Macbeth. In 1992, Dorothy Dunnett was awarded the OBE for her services to literature, and in 2014 Dunnett's most enduring hero, Francis Crawford of Lymond, was voted Scotland's favourite literary character - beating the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and Ivanhoe. Dunnett died 9 November 2001, having sold half a million copies internationally.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140282394
• ISBN 13: 9780140282399
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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