The Game of Kings

Author: Dorothy Dunnett

I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands’It is 1547 and, after five years imprisonment and exile far from his homeland, Francis Crawford of Lymond – scholar, soldier, rebel, nobleman, outlaw – has at last come back to Edinburgh.But for many in an already divided Scotland, where conspiracies swarm around….Read More

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