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Queens' Play
The Lymond Chronicles (Related to this series)
- Author
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Narrator
- David Monteath
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 8 November 2018
- Run Time
- 21 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Queen's Play by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath.
It is 1548 and seven-year-old Mary Queen of Scots, betrothed to her cousin the Dauphin, heir to the French throne, has been dispatched to France. But far from home and vulnerable, surrounded by the double-dealing and debauchery of a dangerous and unpredictable court, she suffers a series of 'accidents'.
Her mother, Scotland's Queen Dowager, orders Francis Crawford of Lymond to protect Mary, believing that at the very heart of Henri II's glittering, decadent court is an assassin hired to kill the infant monarch.
Lymond must secretly hunt down this individual before he himself is exposed . . .
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Praise for Dorothy Dunnett
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A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention
New York Times
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Marvellous, breathtaking
The Times
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A masterpiece of historical fiction
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One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety
The Times
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Vivid, engaging, densely plotted - are almost certainly destined to be counted among the classics of popular fiction
New York Times
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Details
- Author
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Narrator
- David Monteath
- Duration
- 21 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 November 2018
- ISBN
- 9781405939331
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical romance, Historical adventure fiction
Synopsis
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Queen's Play by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1548 and seven-year-old Mary Queen of Scots, betrothed to her cousin the Dauphin, heir to the French throne, has been dispatched to France. But far from home and vulnerable, surrounded by the double-dealing and debauchery of a dangerous and unpredictable court, she suffers a series of 'accidents'. Her mother, Scotland's Queen Dowager, orders Francis Crawford of Lymond to protect Mary, believing that at the very heart of Henri II's glittering, decadent court is an assassin hired to kill the infant monarch. Lymond must secretly hunt down this individual before he himself is exposed . . .
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