Come and be licked…
This is the first in a series I’ve been planning to write that looks at some of the favourite Dunnett quotes that I suggested we collect, and analyses them in the context of the passages they appear...
View Article“As a maiden lady, you would wear anyone down…”
The second in a series looking at favourite Dunnett quotations – this time from Checkmate. “She thinks, as a maiden lady, I should wear my hair down…” “As a maiden lady, you would wear anyone down…” “I...
View ArticleEdinburgh in the Spring 2009 – the DDRA AGM weekend
This year has seen one of the best Springs we’ve had in Edinburgh for many years – it arrived early, stayed largely clear and bright, and the blossom has stayed on the trees for longer than I can...
View ArticleA timeless French street scene
One of the many RSS feeds I monitor from time to time is a photography one, and I just came across a photo that is a “perfect little European medieval street … in Lyon” but since the photographer lost...
View ArticleGetting Reaquainted with the Scottish Highlands
No, not the landscape itself, though it’s far too long since I went hill walking in the north and west, this is the name of the pictorial book that Dorothy and Alastair wrote together along with...
View ArticleMarthe – Tragic Pawn or a Lost Soul Redeemed
The following article is basically the text of a talk I gave at the April 2012 Dorothy Dunnett Society Weekend. It has been some time in preparation – the original version was written about four years...
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Jerott Blyth – dashing hero or dumb idealist
This is a transcript of the talk I gave to the April 2014 Dorothy Dunnett Society weekend. It’s a partner to the earlier talk on Marthe but was somewhat different in tone. For one thing it was longer,...
View ArticleComparisons and Connections
This post was prompted by a recent exchange on Twitter, where I’m pretty active (@spiderbill if anyone wants to follow along). The conversation turned to readers who had loved Lymond but couldn’t get...
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Revisiting an old theory on the character, thinking, and development of Nicholas
I’m currently in the process of rebuilding the main website and while considering the structure of the content I realised that I’ve written very little here about the House of Niccolo compared to the...
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In Search of Ballaggan – in the hoofprints of Richard and Agnes
A while back I was re-reading Game of Kings for the Edinburgh discussion group, and thought, not for the first time, to take a closer look at the geography of that lovely passage introducing us to the...
View ArticleLove at First Sight, or not
On how easy or hard it is “getting into” the Lymond Chronicles (Unlike most of the posts here this one avoids spoilers apart from a few very early quotes and a very general hint about the hero, so is...
View ArticleA little experimental Lymond poll
Beware – Spoilers ahead! Finish the series before reading Earlier today during a Twiiter discussion, and after we’d decided that ranking the books was too difficult, I suggested it might be interesting...
View ArticleA 2nd experimental Lymond poll
Beware – Spoilers ahead! Finish the series before reading Following up the previous post here is another poll about which character’s death had the most impact on you – but this time including the...
View ArticleA 3rd experimental Lymond poll
Having got a fair number of votes in the first two polls I’m changing tack a bit for this one to see who the favourite supporting characters are. Excluding Francis and Philippa and the various...
View ArticlePoll – Which is your favouite House of Niccolo book?
Another little poll – this time switching series to Niccolo. I’ve seen many discussions of which Lymond book is most liked, but not so many on which one people like best in the House of Niccolo. This...
View ArticleTaken on a journey to Blackfriars
A surprising number of years ago (2008 in fact) I started a series of articles discussing favourite quotations and scenes from the Lymond Chronicles. I had intended further similar articles but life...
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