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The Ringed Castle

The Lymond Chronicles (Book 5)

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath.

Sixteen-year-old Philippa Somerville has left Constantinople intact. Returning to England as wife in name only to Francis Crawford of Lymond, she wastes no time in seeking the truth about her new spouse, even as she finds herself navigating the paranoid court of Queen Mary.

Lymond, meanwhile, arrives in Moscow to assist its young Tsar Ivan to create a fledgling Russian army. But when he is tasked to visit London as Ivan's envoy his path is bound to cross that of the wife he has sworn to divorce.

Yet neither Lymond nor Philippa, caught up in their own scheming, can quite see the vast conspiracy enshrouding them . . .

Critics Review

She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come to care deeply about.
The Times Literary Supplement
Melodrama of the most magnificent kind
The Guardian
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
Marvellous, breathtaking
The Times
A masterpiece of historical fiction
Washington Post
One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety
The Times
Vivid, engaging, densely plotted - are almost certainly destined to be counted among the classics of popular fiction
New York Times
Author Dorothy Dunnett
Narrator David Monteath
Series The Lymond Chronicles
Duration 25 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405939362
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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