“Marian de Charetty was small and round and active, with a stare that was none the less of the brightest blue, and vermilion dye in her veins, which made her lips naturally scarlet and her cheeks naturally rosy under short chestnut brows.” Niccolò Rising

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  • Lisa Hopkins

    I first encountered Dorothy Dunnett in the mid 1980s when I was sent eight historical novels to review for a historical society newsletter. The first six were terrible; the last two were Niccolò Rising and The Spring of the Ram. I got very impatient waiting for the rest of the Nicholas books to come out but was consoled […]