Checkmate
by Dorothy Dunnett
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0304293768
- ISBN 13
- 9780304293766
- Seller
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Wigtown, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
The year is 1557 and Francis Crawford of Lymond must serve the King of France for a year before he can return to Russia, where he believes his destiny lies. Yet the astrologer John Dee has said: It is not one thing you seek, but two; and the place for neither is Russia. Lymond, exercising his formidable military talents against the English, has no desire to discover the meaning of this prophecy. But Philippa, his wife-in-name only, has. And she devotes her days to a hazardous search for the truth about the past, and the future, of her enigmatic husband.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Byre Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13608
- Title
- Checkmate
- Author
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0304293768
- ISBN 13
- 9780304293766
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Scottish, Scotland, fiction, historical fiction, Lymond
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