Checkmate
The Lymond Chronicles (Book 6)
- Author Dorothy Dunnett
- Narrator David Monteath
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 8 November 2018
- Run Time 28 hours and 39 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical adventure fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Historical romance.
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Penguin presents the audio edition of Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath.
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.
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| Author | Dorothy Dunnett |
|---|---|
| Narrator | David Monteath |
| Series | The Lymond Chronicles |
| Duration | 28 hours and 39 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781405939379 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Genre | Historical adventure fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Historical romance |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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