“You're most ambitious to succeed, self-reliant, born to lead. Your courage all can depend upon. Your boundless energy spurs you on. You have an argumentative mind and to suspicion you're inclined.” Scorpio
“You're most ambitious to succeed, self-reliant, born to lead. Your courage all can depend upon. Your boundless energy spurs you on. You have an argumentative mind and to suspicion you're inclined.” Scorpio
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Posted onWhispering Gallery 115
Issue 115 of Whispering Gallery, our quarterly magazine, is now on its way to all members of the Dorothy Dunnett Society. Previews are on this page we think you’ll agree it just gets better and better.
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Top Historical Fiction Authors
It’s wonderful to see Dorothy Dunnett listed alongside Jane Austen in this recent online poll of 602 survey participants – but both are too low down the list, in our opinion. Perhaps their books are not as immediately accessible as some of the more popular choices, but we Dunnett readers know the value of a […]
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Rye Medieval Conference
The 4th Rye Medieval Academic Conference were held at Rye College on 13 October 2012. The theme was Religious Realities in Medieval England. “The middle ages were the thousand years when England was Christianised and to be Christian became the only available choice. Christian beliefs and morals coloured most aspects of everyone’s lives. All around […]
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Dorothy Dunnett’s Desert Island Discs
At long last, you can listen to Dorothy Dunnett on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs from 1982. Thank you to everyone who contacted the BBC to encourage them to release this from their archive! Listen here on the BBC website.
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Oxford Dunnett Day 2012
In association with the Dorothy Dunnett Society. Saturday 16 June 2012 Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD, England The speakers were Dr Scott McKendrick, British Library, on “The most splendid court in all Christendom: Edward IV and continental culture, fashion and luxury”; Mark Whelan (winner of the Dorothy Dunnett History Prize 2011) on “Merchant, […]
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Literary Lunch 2012
The Dorothy Dunnett Society will be hosting a Literary Lunch at The Lowry Hotel, Manchester, on Saturday 21 July 2012. Our guests will be historical writers Manda Scott and Anne O’Brien.
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Ibiza Surprise and Operation Nassau published
Ibiza Surprise and Operation Nassau have now appeared on Amazon as Kindle books, completing the full set of Dorothy Dunnett’s Dolly/Johnson Johnson mysteries.
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Whispering Gallery 114
Issue 114 of Whispering Gallery, our quarterly magazine, is now on its way to all members of the Dorothy Dunnett Society and it’s a fabulous issue. Here is a preview of our cover and content.
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Tropical Issue and Moroccan Traffic published
Tropical Issue and Moroccan Traffic have just appeared on Amazon as Kindle books.
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London gathering Feb 2012
We held an informal lunchtime gathering in central London at the Fifth View café in Waterstone’s, Piccadilly on Saturday 4th February. The next London gathering will be on International Dorothy Dunnett Day in October 2012.
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Dorothy Dunnett History Prize winner
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2011 Dorothy Dunnett History Prize is Mark Whelan, Royal Holloway, University of London, for his essay entitled ‘Merchant, Administrator and General: Filippo Scolari in the service of the Hungarian King, 1397-1426’. More details can be seen at the website of Edinburgh University’s Centre for Medieval […]
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Dolly relaunch
It has been confirmed to us by the publisher, House of Stratus, that Dorothy Dunnett’s Dolly novels, also known as the Johnson Johnson mysteries, are being republished in both book and electronic format and should be available starting in about two weeks’ time. To find out more about the mysterious Dolly, take a look at […]