King Hereafter - Softcover

Dunnett, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009995740X ISBN 13: 9780099957409

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

A novel about Macbeth, King of Scotland, by the author of the "Lymond" series. 11th-century Europe is full of young kings. Macbeth - part-Christian, part-Viking - has the imagination and determination to move himself and his people out of a barbarian past and into flowering nationhood.

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Review:

"A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two." --The New York Times "One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 009995740X
• ISBN 13: 9780099957409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 880