The Dorothy Dunnett Society

“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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    • “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

    Theme: Dorothy Dunnett

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      Existing Research on Dorothy Dunnett

      A collection of references to the current academic research on Dorothy Dunnett

    • Val McDermid on Dorothy Dunnett

      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 on Dorothy Dunnett

      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 […]

    • Gwynedd Hughes on Dorothy Dunnett

      Gwynedd Hughes, documentary director and screenwriter A big fat shabby old paperback plopped onto my desk. I eyed it suspiciously. The first of a series of six historical novels, sporting a terrible cover, with some daft female swooning in the arms of a blond twit in tights. I’m secretly more of a science fiction nut, […]

    • Chelsea Clinton on Dorothy Dunnett

      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 […]

    • Patricia Bracewell on Dorothy Dunnett

      Patricia Bracewell, author of Shadow on the Crown It must have been more than 30 years ago that I fell in love with Dorothy Dunnett’s daring, witty, and mesmerizing Francis Crawford of Lymond. Some 10 years later my ardor for her clever Renaissance Scotsman was challenged when I was introduced to her equally captivating Nicholas, […]

    • Prue Batten on Dorothy Dunnett

      Prue Batten, author of the Gisborn Series I discovered histfict long before I discovered Dorothy Dunnett but when I eventually unshelved her in a little seaside library many years ago, I felt as if I had come home. I devoured her books then, one after another, and my life changed. As a histfict writer, she […]

    • Amy Maroney on Dorothy Dunnett

      How a forgotten queen introduced me to Dorothy Dunnett Amy Maroney, author of The Queen’s Scribe In 1458, the fifteen-year-old, widowed Queen Charlotta ascended the throne of the Kingdom of Cyprus. Two years later, she moved her court into the seaside fortress of Kyrenia in anticipation of an attack by her power-hungry half-brother, Jacco. The […]

    • Annie Whitehead on Dorothy Dunnett

      History as an Arena – Tribute to Dorothy Dunnett Annie Whitehead, author and historian ‘History is all very well, but it’s just the showcase. It is the arena in which your characters will perform, and which supplies the conflicts, stresses, dilemmas and the struggles they’ll get through.’ This quotation of Dorothy Dunnett’s is used in […]

    • Barbara Gaskell Denvil on Dorothy Dunnett

      Barbara Gaskell Denvil, author of the Historical Mysteries Collection I was very young when I first saw Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Richard III with Sir Lawrence Olivier bringing the character very much alive. Hypnotised by the play, I was mesmerised by the situation in general and everything else which transpired, and as I lived in […]

    • Cheryl Sawyer on Dorothy Dunnett

      Cheryl Sawyer, author of The King’s Shadow I first encountered The Game of Kings in my grammar-school library in the mid-1960s, and ever since that enthralling experience I have considered her a master of her genre. I loved historical novels from childhood, my early favourites being writers such as Geoffrey Trease, Henry Treece, Rosemary Sutcliff […]

    • Deborah Harkness on Dorothy Dunnett

      Deborah Harkness, author of the All Souls trilogy I ADORE Dorothy Dunnett and as I type I’m looking at my full set of novels on the “precious items” shelf in my office. I bought the entire Lymond Chronicles between 8/15/1986 and 8/26/1986. I bought the first one to take on my very first business trip […]