Niccolo Rising: The House of Niccolo 1 - Softcover

Dunnett, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140113916 ISBN 13: 9780140113914

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyers apprentice who schemes and swashbucukes his way to thehelm of a merchantile empire. NICCOLO RISING, Book One of the series, finds us in Bruges, 1460. Street smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and the well-timed untruth, Dunnett's hero rises from wastrel to prodigy in abreathless adventure that wins him the love of the strongest woman in Bruges and the hatred of two powerful enemies. NICCOLO RISING combines history, adventure and high romance in the tradition stretching from Alexandre Dumas to Mary Renault.

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Praise for Dorothy Dunnett

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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)

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: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140113916
• ISBN 13: 9780140113914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592