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Niccolo Rising: The First Book of the House of Niccolo
by Dorothy Dunnett
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140113916
- ISBN 13
- 9780140113914
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About This Item
Penguin Books, London, 2000. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine Condition. Size: Small Octavo. 586 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyers apprentice who schemes and swashbuckes his way to the helm of a mercantile empire. NICCOLO RISING, Book One of the series, finds us in Bruges, 1460. Street smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and the well-timed untruth, Dunnett's hero rises from wastrel to prodigy in a breathless adventure that wins him the love of the strongest woman in Bruges and the hatred of two powerful enemies. NICCOLO RISING combines history, adventure and high romance in the tradition stretching from Alexandre Dumas to Mary Renault. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Historical Fiction; Belgium; Medieval 10th to 15thc; ISBN: 0140113916. ISBN/EAN: 9780140113914. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9343. . 9780140113914
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9343
- Title
- Niccolo Rising: The First Book of the House of Niccolo
- Author
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140113916
- ISBN 13
- 9780140113914
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB137 bruges, 15th century, nicholas vander poele, historical fiction, piccolo, Fiction; Historical Fiction; Belgium; Medieval 10th to 15thc; ISBN: 0140113916 EAN: 9780140113914 Dorothy Dunnett Niccolo Rising: The First Book of the House of Niccolo
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