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Scales Of Gold

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9781405939812

  • Length: 1462  Minutes

  • RRP: £16.00

Scales Of Gold

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Scales of Gold by Dorothy Dunnett, read by John Banks.

The year 1464 finds our hero Nicholas in Venice. Plagued by enemies bent on dissolving his assets and smearing his character, he sets sail for Africa, legendary location of the Fountain of Youth and the source of gold in such abundance that men prefer to barter in shells. He will discover the charms of the beautiful Gelis - a woman whose passion for Nicholas is rivalled only by her desire to punish him for his role in her sister's death. Erotic and lush with detail, SCALES OF GOLD embraces the complexity of the Renaissance, where mercantile adventure couples with more personal quests behind the silkeb curtains of the Age of Discovery.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9781405939812

  • Length: 1462  Minutes

  • RRP: £16.00

Reviews

  • 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

  • 'A glorious panorama of medieval times . . . The historical research is impeccable'

    -, Sunday Express

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About the Author

Dorothy Dunnett

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.

Dorothy Dunnett

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