num_pages: 400
description: The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II is an encyclopedic resource documenting the historical and literary riches of Dunnett's now-complete Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolò series. In this second guide, Elspeth Morrison not only covers the final three Niccolò novels for the first time, but also provides a wealth of additional information about all of the earlier novels and highlights the links between the two series. Once again, Dunnett illuminates the real figures and events and the cultural and literary allusions she weaves into her works, translating foreign phrases and offering up fascinating background details on everything from golf and galley slaves to puffins and polar bears. Together with the first Companion, The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II provides an essential guide to the world of Lymond and Niccolò.“[Dunnett's novels are] vivid, engaging, densely plotted…sustained by a riot of tangible detail that makes real the world she has conjured up.”–The New York Times Book Review“[Dunnett is] the finest living writer of historical fiction.” –Washington Post Book World
language: English
title: The Dorothy Dunnett Companion: Volume II
titlecomplete: The Dorothy Dunnett Companion: Volume II
characters: Dorothy Dunnett
genres: Historical, Literature, Books About Books, Reference, Historical Fiction, Fiction, 16th Century
ratings_count: 556
publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd