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Checkmate
- The Lymond Chronicles, Book 6
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 28 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
Penguin presents the audio edition of Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath.
It is 1557 and legendary Scottish warrior Francis Crawford of Lymond is once more in France. There he is leading an army to rout the hated English from Calais.
Yet while Lymond seeks victory on the battlefield he is haunted by his troubled past - chiefly the truth about his origins and his marriage (in name only) to young Englishwoman Philippa Somerville.
As the French offer him a way out of his marriage and his wife appears in France on a mission of her own, the final moves are made in a great game that has been playing out over an extraordinary decade of war, love and struggle - bringing the Lymond Chronicles to a spellbinding close.
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- John
- 12-01-23
A good old fashioned yarn
The Lymond chronicles, as a whole, are a treat. A fascinating host of characters, a marvellous and very flawed hero, a beautiful love story and , most especially, a rollicking, twisting, heart in your mouth gallop through 16th c Europe, written by someone who clearly had an extraordinary mind and a huge breadth of scholarship (and lost no opportunity to display both)
But the interminable French quotations, which really grated by the last book, leave me suspicious that Dorothy Dunnett must have been a rather pretentious and a very snobby woman.
Pity that.
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- n firth
- 16-01-23
One of the greats, a masterpiece
Last book in the series finished! What will i do without Lymond and Phillipa. My all time favourite series by far. Dorothy Dunnetts name has to be put up there with the best, a master storyteller who weaves a complex and brilliant story with great characters. Its not an easy read, but its so so worth it. Just let it flow over you and it will capture your imagination and not let go.
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- Sheila
- 02-03-19
Fantastic Series
I have now read all the Lymond books and they are without a doubt some of the best historical novels I have ever come across. Superb writing and so well read by David Monteath. A joy from start to finish.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-01-22
An audible feast
In no single particular has this series disappointed. I'm quite sure that after only a short interval I will listen to it again. Mr. Monteith is superb.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-11-19
Lymond series
Game of Thrones meets gothic romance and heroic saga and so much more. Made me laugh, cry, fume and chew my nails. what more can you ask of a series of novels? Epic listen!
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- helen
- 05-02-20
A Fitting Ending.
The final book will not disappoint you, all the story lines come together and this is what makes the whole series a really good listen.
There are more French passages in this book than all the others and this I did find very annoying. I do wonder why authors do these foreign language passages in a book. It is pointless. It does not enhance the story in any shape or form, so why not just print theses so called "important" passages in the language the book is being read/ listened too in.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-01-19
satisfying conclusion
the only criticism. too many untranslated quotations.otherwise a well-designed and fascinating story against a plausible historical background
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- Roslyn Jane
- 30-12-22
Fantastic
This is a wonderful story brought beautifully to life. So well researched. Not to be missed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-12-19
checkmate
A nail biting ending to a wonderful tale, beautifully told. I have read the Lymond Chronicles twice in the last two years but listening to it was still a revelation.
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- Rosalind Healy
- 11-02-22
Oh for a love like that!
It spoils you really and has done my entire life. Alas, we cannot all be so lucky. But I am privileged to read again, for the multiple time, this work of genius by the dazzling Mrs Dunnett. I’ll tell you what else it spoils you for…substandard writing. You are warned. But if you’ve got this far in the Lymond chronicles, you know all this.
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