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Title
Queens' play

Author
Dorothy Dunnett

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Vintage Books

Language
English

UK Publication Date
19970429

Description

This second book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles follows Francis Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots.

Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France. It is to France that Lymond must travel, exercising his sword hand and his agile wit while also undertaking the most unlikely of masquerades, all to make sure that his charge's royal person stays intact.

Dorothy Dunnett was born in 1923 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her time at Gillespie's
High School for Girls overlapped with that of the novelist Muriel Spark. From 1940-1955,
she worked for the Civil Service as a press officer. In 1946, she married Alastair
Dunnett, later editor of The Scotsman.

Dunnett started writing in the late 1950s.
Her first novel, The Game of Kings, was published in the United States in 1961, and
in the United Kingdom the year after. She published 22 books in total, including
the six-part Lymond Chronicles and the eight-part Niccolo Series, and co-authored
another volume with her husband. Also an accomplished professional portrait painter,
Dunnett exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy on many occasions and had portraits
commissioned by a number of prominent public figures in Scotland.

She also led a
busy life in public service, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National
Library of Scotland, a Trustee of the Scottish National War Memorial, and Director
of the Edinburgh Book Festival. She served on numerous cultural committees, and was
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1992 she was awarded the Office of the
British Empire for services to literature. She died on November 9, 2001, at the age
of 78.

Type
BOOK

Edition
1st Vintage Books Edition

Keyword Index
Crawford, Francis (Fictitious character) - Fiction.|Scotland - History - Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 - Fiction.|France - History - Henry II, 1547-1559 - Fiction.

Country of Publication
New York (State)

Number of Pages
448

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