I only read half a dozen books during last term, but I finished The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett!

I’m so glad I tried this series again after my unsuccessful attempt to read The Game of Kings in 2015, and that I wasn’t deterred by the devastating ending to Pawn in Frankincense.

• The Ringed Castle: This takes place in the mid 1550s. After ( Read more... )

I read the fourth of The Lymond Chronicles in February and have been procrastinating from reviewing it because this was a lot to process and I wanted to say more than “Well, that was devastating!”

• Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett: In the aftermath of revelations made at the end of The Disorderly Knights, Francis Crawford of Lymond embarks ( Read more... )

I am working my way through The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett.

The audiobooks are all over 20 hours long and I am frequently surprised when I later discover how characters’ names are spelt (I keep stubbornly imagining that Jerott is spelt with a G), but the narrator is excellent.

It took me longer than it should to realise that yes, all the ( Read more... )

Three more books -- ordered randomly, but in what I have suddenly realised, is the order of the years in which they are set. (A more concise way to express that sentence currently alludes me.)

• The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett: In 1547, Francis Crawford of Lymond, the Master of Culter, wanted by the Scottish government for treason, is back in ( Read more... )