The Dorothy Dunnett Companion: Volume II

Dorothy Dunnett has earned worldwide acclaim for the masterful blending of historical
fact and imagination in her two series of novels set in brilliantly reconstructed
fifteenth- and sixteenth-century landscapes.

The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II is
an encyclopedic resource that completes and expands the reach of the first Companion in documenting the historical and literary riches of Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles
and House of Niccolo novels. In this second guide, Elspeth Morrison not only covers
the final three Niccolo novels for the first time, but also provides a wealth of
additional information about all of the earlier novels and highlights the links between
the two now-completed series. Once again, she illuminates the real figures and events
and the cultural and literary allusions Dunnett weaves into her works, translating
foreign phrases and offering up fascinating background details, from the history
of golf and the argot of galley slaves to the uses of puffins and polar bears. Together
with the first Companion, The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II provides a complete and
essential guide to the world of Lymond and Niccolo.