Book description
The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new
knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than
Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyers apprentice who
schemes and swashbucukes his way to thehelm of a merchantile empire.
NICCOLO RISING, Book One of the series, finds us in Bruges, 1460. Street
smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and
the well-timed untruth, Dunnett's hero rises from wastrel to prodigy in
abreathless adventure that wins him the love of the strongest woman in
Bruges and the hatred of two powerful enemies. NICCOLO RISING combines
history, adventure and high romance in the tradition stretching from
Alexandre Dumas to Mary Renault. DOrothy Dunnett is the author of the
world famous Lymond Chronicles set during the sixteenth century, as well
as the on-going House of Niccolo series. She was awarded the OBE for her
service to literature in 1992. She lives in Edinburgh.
