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House of Niccolo
Niccolo Rising
• Dorothy Dunnett
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 470 PAGES
The reigning queen of historical fiction serves up this tale of adventure, mercantilism and romance set in fifteenth-century Bruges. The hero, who begins life as an opportunistic apprentice banker, soon rises to become one of the most powerful men in Flanders. It's the first volume in Dunnet's five-book House of Niccolo series.
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Race of Scorpions
• Dorothy Dunnett
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 534 PAGES
An absorbing tale of political intrigue set in the 15th-century Ottoman empire and throughout the Mediterranean. It's volume three of Dunnett's masterful "House of Niccolo" series, the story of Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, a young dyer's apprentice who gets caught up in the rivalry for the throne of Cyprus. The characters may be fictitious but the historical footing is solid and the setting credible.
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