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“Is there no one will take up this priceless thing and say, here is a nation, with such a soul; with such talents; with these failings and this native worth?” The Game of Kings
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    Chelsea Clinton on Dorothy Dunnett

    Chelsea Clinton

    Chelsea Clinton, writer and health advocate

    I read Dorothy Dunnett’s King Hereafter on a summer camping trip while I was in high school and was riveted, reading late into the night while being mindful my flashlight might run out of batteries at any moment. A few years later, I picked up Dorothy Dunnett’s The Lymond Chronicles in a bookshop and fell happily and completely into the world of Francis Crawford of Lymond. I’ve read the full six-volume series three times and a few of the books even more.

    Where else can a reader traverse the Renaissance – its geography, art, music, literature and most of all, its political intrigues –meeting Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth, Ivan the Terrible, and Sulieman the Magnificent along the way? Dunnett’s mastery is to invite you into Lymond’s lavish world while simultaneously weaving a grand story of the many different ways we love – with friends, lovers, parents, children, even at times antagonists, and hopefully, ourselves. I cannot wait until my children are old enough for us to read these books together.

    Author: Chelsea Clinton
    Website Publication Date: 2nd August 2026
    Theme: Dorothy Dunnett, The Books
    Publication Type: Articles
    Medium: Text
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