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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'she is a brilliant story teller, the lymond chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come to care deeply aboutis 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 readyi shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands' it is and, after five years imprisonment and exile far from his homeland, francis crawford of lymond - scholar, soldier, rebel, nobleman, outlaw - has at last come back to edinburghoxfam bookshop brigg voted one of britain's favourite historical novels before george rmartin there was dorothy dunnett'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' the guardian see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut for many in an already divided scotland, where conspiracies swarm around the infant queen mary like clouds of midges, he is not welcome' the times literary supplement 'i despised men who accepted their fateperfect for fans of a game of thrones
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Oxfam shop dumfries this third volume in the lymond chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels takes place in , when francis crawford of lymond is dispatched to embattled malta, to assist the knights of hospitallers in defending the island against the turksbut shortly the swordsman and scholar discovers that the greatest threat to the knights lies within their own ranks, where various factions vie secretly for mastersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to dorothy dunnett's revered lymond chronicles, following the ancestors of francis crawford of lymond in continental europewe are going to tamper with nature, defy law and cheat piratesand, in edinburgh, there is a play to perform - one that might have repercussions for those puzzled but powerful lions'we are going to the westmann isles'it is and nicholas de fleury has confounded the lions of europe - the courts of england, france, burgundy, venice and cyprushaving overcome the schemings of his wife, gelis, he now seeks a truce'imaginative, scholarly and compelling' mail on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet nicholas' attention appears to lie elsewhereto lie with lions is book six in the house of niccolo serieshe looks north to the lands of ice and fire, and new treasure to wrestle from the hands of rivalswe are going to sail the stiffening ocean to icelandthe very future of the continent hinges on the fate of his bank, the enigmatic house of niccolo
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