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Lymond Chronicles
  • The Game of Kings (1961)
  • Queens' Play (1964)
  • The Disorderly Knights (1966)
  • Pawn in Frankincense (1969)
  • The Ringed Castle (1971)
  • Checkmate (1975)

AuthorDorothy Dunnett
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical fiction
Publisher
  • Putnam's (U.S. first ed.)
  • Cassell (U.K. first ed.)
Published1961–1975
Media typePrint (hardcover)
No. of books6
Followed byThe House of Niccolò

The Lymond Chronicles is a series of six historical novels written by Dorothy Dunnett and first published between 1961 and 1975. Set in mid-16th-century Europe and the Mediterranean area, the series tells the story of a young Scottish nobleman, Francis Crawford of Lymond, from 1547 until 1558.

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the six novels in Dorothy Dunnett's historical fiction series, the Lymond Chronicles. Ivan was portrayed on BBC Radio 4 by David Threlfall in the radio...

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series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth and Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. A development in British and Irish writing in the past 25 years has...

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Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon

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Gabriel de Luetz

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Francis Crawford

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List of Scottish writers

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