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The Unicorn Hunt

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780140112672

  • Length: 880  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 35mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 500g

  • RRP: £10.99

The Unicorn Hunt

The exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to Dorothy Dunnett's revered Lymond Chronicles, following the ancestors of Francis Crawford of Lymond in Continental Europe.

The Unicorn Hunt is Book Five in The House of Niccolo series.

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'Rich, newly wed, with a palatial banking house, a busy fleet, a small army, why should Nicholas vander Poele choose to travel to Edinburgh?'

That is the question on everyone's lips in the Autumn of 1468 - especially those of his enemy, Simon de St Pol of Kilmirren, who seeks nothing less than the destruction of the House of Niccolo and its cunning head.

But Nicholas soon proves that there are very good mercantile reasons for expanding his trading empire into the north. They also help to conceal his attempts to discover the true father of the child his vengeful wife insists is not his own.

From Scotland to the Tyrol, Cairo to Cyprus, Nicholas pursues a truth that many fear will destroy him and everything he has tried to build . . .

'Terrifically exciting. Some wonderful set-pieces and a cliff-hanging climax' The Times

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780140112672

  • Length: 880  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 35mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 500g

  • RRP: £10.99

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

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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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