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  1. @bookstodon

    Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
    The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024

    Dr Jennifer L Wood compares the historical Thomas Dallam presenting a self-playing organ to the Ottoman Sultan, with Lymond taking the horological Spinet there in Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles 4)

    6/6

    youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #history #16thcentury #music #musichistory

  2. @bookstodon

    Historian Yvonne Seale on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:

    “some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”

    5/6

    yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/1

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #history #16thcentury

  3. @bookstodon

    “these books stand or fall with their leading man – and what a creation he is… Francis Crawford is arguably the perfect romantic hero”

    Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles: far more than sex & swords (but also: sex & swords! ⚔️🍆)

    4/6

    theguardian.com/books/booksblo

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction

  4. @bookstodon

    Writing Epic Fantasy the Historical Fiction Way: Lessons from Dorothy Dunnett’s The Game of Kings

    Marie Brennan’s 5 lessons from Dunnett – how to:

    ⭐️Use Omniscient Narration
    ⭐️Write Dynamic Politics
    ⭐️Write a Fight Scene
    ⭐️Write a Good Gary Stu
    ⭐️Include Women

    @writingcommunity

    3/6

    reactormag.com/writing-epic-fa

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #SFF #writing #writingcommunity

  5. @bookstodon

    “The literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground”

    All The Writers You Love Probably Love Dorothy Dunnett

    Max Gladstone jokes, “Dunnett probably made me insufferable for a year or two, but she helped me find my voice”; Ellen Kushner calls the novels “the Dorothy Dunnett Six-Book Writers’ Academy”

    2/6

    npr.org/2014/12/27/371710986/a

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction

  6. Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born #OTD, 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of historical fiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those fateful words:

    “Lymond is back.”

    A 🎂 🧵

    @bookstodon

    1/6

    booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction

  7. @bookstodon

    Historian Yvonne Seale [email protected] on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:

    “some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”

    5/5

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction

    yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/1

  8. @bookstodon

    “these books stand or fall with their leading man – and what a creation he is… Francis Crawford is arguably the perfect romantic hero”

    Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles: far more than sex & swords

    (but also: sex & swords! ⚔️🍆)

    4/5

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction

    theguardian.com/books/booksblo

  9. @bookstodon

    “a surprising number of #sciencefiction & #fantasy authors have been influenced by her work”

    Marie Brennan’s 5 lessons from Dunnett – how to:

    ⭐️Use Omniscient Narration
    ⭐️Write Dynamic Politics
    ⭐️Write a Fight Scene
    ⭐️Write a Good Gary Stu
    ⭐️Include Women

    3/5

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #Scifi #SFF

    reactormag.com/writing-epic-fa

  10. @bookstodon

    All The Writers You Love Probably Love Dorothy Dunnett

    Max Gladstone jokes, “Dunnett probably made me insufferable for a year or two, but she helped me find my voice”; Ellen Kushner calls the novels “the Dorothy Dunnett Six-Book Writers’ Academy”

    2/5

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles

    npr.org/2014/12/27/371710986/a

  11. Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born #OTD, 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of #HistoricalFiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those three fateful words:

    “Lymond is back.”

    A 🎂 🧵 …

    1/5

    @bookstodon

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles

    booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/