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Niccolo Rising

Niccolo Rising

by 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.  (BLG13, $15.95)

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