Checkmate Checkmate
Book 6 - The Lymond Chronicles

Checkmate

The Lymond Chronicles Book Six

    • 4.8 • 10 Ratings
    • £4.99
    • £4.99

Publisher Description

Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . .

THE PERFECT GIFT for fans of A Game of Thrones.

'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come to care deeply about.' The Times Literary Supplement

Checkmate is the sixth and final book in the series

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'If they place the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left and ask me to give up my mission, I will not give it up until the truth prevails or I myself perish in the attempt . . .'

It is 1557 and legendary Scottish warrior Francis Crawford of Lymond is once more in France. There he is leading an army to rout the hated English from Calais.

Yet while Lymond seeks victory on the battlefield he is haunted by his troubled past - chiefly the truth about his origins and his marriage (in name only) to young Englishwoman Philippa Somerville.

As the French offer him a way out of his marriage and his wife appears in France on a mission of her own, the final moves are made in a great game that has been playing out over an extraordinary decade of war, love and struggle - bringing the Lymond Chronicles to a spellbinding close.

'A masterpiece of historical fiction' Washington Post

'Melodrama of the most magnificent kind' The Guardian

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1999
28 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
688
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
SIZE
5
MB

Customer Reviews

Sandi, England ,

The final book in a compelling saga

This is the final book in the six-volume Lymond Chronicles, the most enthralling tale set in 16C Europe that I've ever read. The series ranges from Scotland, France, Malta, the Ottaman Empire and Russia. We meet many historical figures, including a young Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth, Suleiman the Magnificent, Ivan the Terrible and the Knights of St John of Malta - all expertly depicted and intertwined with a host of marvellous fictional creations.

The eponymous hero of the series, Francis Crawford of Lymond - mercenary, spy, war hero, diplomat - is the most charismatic fictional character to grace the pages of a novel. Witty, tortured, sardonic and brilliant, he is matched by a cast of supporting characters, both historical and fictional. Dorothy Dunnett is unmatched in her ability to tell a tale and bring 16C Europe to life through impeccable research and a painterly eye for detail.

This book has to be read after the others in the series, which starts with Game of Kings. As in all Dorothy Dunnett's books, there is an underlying mystery to be unravelled that has gradually emerged as the series has progressed, the solution of which is not revealed until almost the last page of this book.

Lymond's wife-in-name only, Philippa Somerville, is a perfect match for her husband and provides some gloriously comedic moments as well as some of the most moving.

I did not want the series to end and have reread this and the rest of the books countless times. Now they are available as ebooks to be discovered by a new generation of readers. I envy those picking them up for the first time and the delights that await them.

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