Whispering Gallery, Issue 159

This bumper issue of Whispering Gallery contains 84 pages of analysis, appreciation and comment about our favourite author.

We report on April’s Academic Conference and the Gathering that followed with an overview of the Conference papers, transcriptions of talks given on the Gathering ‘Lecture Day’, and write-ups of the events and trips in which the 270-plus delegates participated.

In addition, we take a look at the new cover designs of the Dolly mysteries, we work out how our heroes travelled to Gardington, and there is an interview with the translator of the new Portuguese edition of The Game of Kings. A member writes about Dunnett’s influence on her writing and the work of other writers of historical fiction. We have a second extract from Alastair Dunnett’s autobiography and continuing analysis of structure and style in The House of Niccolò, and we join a reader as she wanders through some of the instances of Lymond sleeping – and not sleeping.

Contents

• The Chairman’s Column
• Trustees’ Notice Board
• Members’ Page
• Wrapping Up Dunnett
• Authors Inspired by Dorothy Dunnett
• A Dunnett Lexicon
• Centenary Gathering & Conference
• Jogo de Reis
• Among Friends, part 2
• The Dyer’s Apprentice, part 2
• ‘Somewhere to die, or to sleep’
• How did Lymond and Philippa get to Gardington?
• Women’s Fashion in the 15th Century
• Talking Point

Published September 2023