“She is the model for their dragons.” The Ringed Castle
“She is the model for their dragons.” The Ringed Castle
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Despoiling the King in 1525: Capture, Plunder, and the Battle of Pavia by John Gagné
A collection of references to the current academic research on Dorothy Dunnett

Networking with Dorothy Dunnett and Anselm Adorne. Whispering Gallery Article from Issue 165, by Jill Harrison
List of Characters in King Hereafter

Defence from the Margin, by Dr Jelena Bakić

Anselm Adornes, Destined for Greatness, by Jelle Deltombe
Forging the Triangular Alliance: The O’Connors, the MacDonalds and Franco-Scottish politics by Dr David Heffernan historian, of Tudor and Stuart Ireland.
The Influence of Marko Marulić on 16th Century European Intellectual Life, by Domagoj Krapan, , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam’s Organ and Lymond’s Spinet, by Dr Jennifer L. Wood, George Mason University

History of Whispering Gallery Whispering Gallery is the successor to a letterzine named Marzipan and Kisses, founded in the USA in 1984 by Jean Clissold and Karen Brandl. Starting with issue 33, Dorothy Dunnett arranged for an international variant named Whispering Gallery to be created and published by the Dorothy Dunnett Foundation (DDF) for readers […]

Val McDermid, fellow Scot and crime writer I first encountered Dorothy Dunnett via The Lymond Chronicles just down the road from her birthplace in Kirkcaldy Central Library. I was a voracious reader and whenever I found a novel that captured my imagination, I wanted more. So in my early teens, I drank in the world […]

Guy Gavriel Kay was the keynote speaker at the Centenary Gathering when he spoke about meeting Dorothy Dunnett and his appreciation for her writing. He said of that meeting “I can say that from then, and through many other encounters, she was wonderful in person, not just in print. That isn’t a given, and it […]