Checkmate - Softcover
CHECKMATE is the sixth book of Dorothy Dunnett's famous Lymond chronicles, relating the adventures of Frances Crawford of Lymond, Scottish soldier fortune, scholar and wit. They have woven the threads of the sixth century into a web of suspense that is entangled only in this, the final volume, the magnificent climax to the whole series. France 1557. Lymond is bound over to serve the King for one year, after which he will be free to return to Russia where he believes his destiny lies. And yet the astrologer John Dee has said: "It is not one thing you seek, but two; and the place for neither is Russia....."
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Praise for Dorothy Dunnett (-)
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 subtlety (The Times)
Vivid, engaging, densely plotted - are almost certainly destined to be counted among the classics of popular fiction (New York Times)
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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 subtlety (The Times)
Vivid, engaging, densely plotted - are almost certainly destined to be counted among the classics of popular fiction (New York Times)
'If they place the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left and ask me to give up my mission, I will not give it up until the truth prevails or I myself perish in the attempt . . .'
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
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- PublisherMichael Joseph
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0718141296
- ISBN 13 9780718141295
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages592
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