Pre-Owned The Game of Kings (Library Binding) 9780899663180

from

This book is one of the best books I have ever read, and is the beginning of my favorite series. It is the first book of the Lymond Chronicles, which span six historical fiction novels following the life of Francis Crawford of Lymond across Europe and North Africa. The Game of Kings takes place p...

from marchcat

This is a difficult book to get into, but anyone who makes it past the first 100 pages is usually hooked into the series. I literally could not put the book down. This is the first book written by the author, Dorothy Dunnett, and in my opinion has a little too much historical research showing, bu...

from Fleur-De-Lis

A truly beautiful book. I found it a bit hard to get into at the start maybe, on account of the oldish english, and the almost cryptically way it's written (which reminds me a lot of the way i write sometimes). But i have Chronic Fatigue which i am sure made it a lot harder. But once i got starte...

from quinncannon

Simply my favourite historical series. Complicated fictional characters intersect with historical ones (4 year old Mary, Queen of Scots, for instance), playing out a rich and convoluted plot line across 16th century Scotland, England, Europe and beyond. Full of Latin, German, French etc quotation...

from ValLloyd

The start of it all. Once again any summation of the plot would give away too much. But if you like historical fiction, can suspend belief enough to read high drama, enjoy meticulous research served with a beautiful leavening of a complex plot, great writing and can live with the confusion that u...