She certainly said that the paranormal was a common belief for the people of those periods, but I haven't come across any instances of her saying she believed in them. I'd be rather surprised to find she believed in astrology as it wouldn't fit with the sort of mind she had. Telepathy maybe.

#Dunnettcontent Latest WG issue quoted a comparison between Dunnett and Dumas that made me grin, because I discovered Dunnett soon after I got my adult library card, by wondering what the other big hardbacks were on the shelf next to Dumas ⚔️📚

@maryb2004.bsky.social #dunnettcontent Per our earlier conversation, I submit that the only real Lymond’s-eye-passage we get is when he realizes that it’s irrelevant which child is which. There are 2 other contenders - when he’s going through G’s rooms and when he’s leaving the monastery in Volos.

Good morning! On to the last in the Lymond Chronicles - Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett - and slightly annoyed that I have to put it down to work.

#dunnett #dunnettcontent #historicalfiction #earlymodern #dunnettquote This week, we are off, hunting with the French court.

"Where are the links of the chain... joining us to the past?" -Dorothy Dunnet.

I have just realized, today, that I read Dorothy Dunnett for the first time fifty years ago this summer. Am rereading the Lymond books for at least the tenth time (retirement project!) and I am still in awe of what she achieved

I object to the telepathy and I object to the divining. But the divining at least provides a bit of fun in terms of spotting the links between the two series, whereas the telepathy in CM mostly seems to convey misery in both directions

2/ Niccolo, but can't recall anyone objecting in the same way to this telepathy in the LC. Anyone got any thoughts? Or if you object to the divining to you also to the telepathy, and if not why not?

#Dunnettcontent A question for readers. Having recently returned to my research on Adam Blacklock I've been reading Checkmate, and am struck again by the telepathic relationship between Lymond and Philippa. Now I've often heard readers say they are uncomfortable with the divining in the House of /2

#DunnettContent tangentially

The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett... I've reread the first in the series a lot, I keep wanting to recapture the feeling I had when I first read it and suddenly realised what he was up to 😂

I'm in with The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett. For suspense, storytelling and the accurate and perfectly researched historical background.

Dunnett didn't say he rode it *elegantly*. Just that he was on it and having what I can presume was the time of his life (to that point). I just peeked at a few videos of tourists riding ostriches in South Africa and I think a large 18-year old could do it, however brief.

Amazing and amusing as that was, I was distracted by doubt that such a large man as Niccolo could ride an ostrich without it collapsing. Almost as if Dunnett were picturing the compact Lymond as the rider rather than his forerunner.

Puts one in mind of the exploits of the ollave Thady Boy Ballagh across the rooftops of Blois, in Dorothy Dunnett’s Queen’s Play. www.instagram.com/reel/DH8kpK1...

Allie Therin's Viscounts and Villainy and Dorothy Dunnett's Pawn in Frankincense.

I’m also really feeling the sweetness and Northumberlandian practicality of Fippy after her interview with Güzel - that she and Kuzum may not have a terribly fulfilling future ahead of them, but they will make the best of it together.

#DunnettContent Spoilers, obviously. Inspired by a conversation earlier today with @abbaetha.bsky.social I've just written an appreciation of the first chapter of Ringed Castle where Kate and Philippa reunite and there are some surprises! www.dorothydunnett.co.uk/philippa-kat...

My wife was a bit embarrassed on the tube every year as I started reading on the way to the airport or King's Cross. I love the standard original covers, but this is my particular favourite:

Ha😄exact same, now got 11 months to wait for Doctor. Started the Dollys with Singing Bird/Rum, in view of the Isle of Rum, a few summers ago! (though also prefer the original paperbacks where possible..) #DorothyDunnett

Agreed! I saved them - an incredible show of willpower, this - to be my first book of the summer holiday over the course of six years.

Loved Cookie and Nanny, looking forward to Doctor on my next travels (they really suit reading while on the move!)

Yes! (Nanny, Cookie and Doctor are my favourites but I love them all.)

Crime fiction. Dolly and the Starry Bird, Dorothy Dunnet. Read in Bay of Naples! A fun break while I delay finishing the magisterial Niccolo series. Dated vocab, hard to follow? Riding the tone, I heartily enjoyed this twisting madcap caper with its food/drink/clothes/travel & the wind-in-its-hair!🚤

stares like a hungry seagull at the entire known universe in Dunnett

Very familiar feeling for #Dunnett readers

Dorothy Dunnett's first book of the House of Niccolo series, "Niccolo Rising." It's difficult to decide which of the series' books is my favourite, but that one ends up winning in the end because of an ostrich scene.

Ladybird book in the Spotlight ‘Public Services: Water Supply’ 1969 [Deep sigh] Artist: John Berry

#dunnett #dunnettcontent #historicalfiction #earlymodern The weekly #dunnettquote is about pastimes.

I’m a reader: right now (re) reading Dorothy Dunnett’s pawn in frankincense with Sayers’s Unpleasantness at the Bellona club for times of fluff.

Never knew Britain was besieged by so many octogenarian terrorists who demand children not be starved and slaughtered. What is the world coming to?

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE. That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist. Language has been turned on its head. The law has been turned on its head. Murdering children is righteous. Trying to stop it is terrorism.

One of many fascinating artists interviewed for the NEW WomensArt book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' is Northumbrian artist Rebecca Vincent #womensart

Contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:

3 generations of our family were on todays National March for Palestine following in the footsteps of my Gt Uncle who was at the Battle of Cable St in 1936

Three peace campaigners were arrested at today's Palestine Coalition march in London for carrying placards that read "Oppose Genocide. Ban Starmer not Palestine Action"

@MiddleEastEye: At the Palestine march in London, journalist Ahmed Eldin told Middle East Eye that the UK is complicit in Israel’s genocide. He warned of rising protest criminalisation, press suppression, and a “truly Orwellian” erosion of civil liberties. https://t.co/9PY2ZxCbj3

@spiderbill.bsky.social #dunnettcontent Bill, this is for you. Marthe candidate?

#Dunnett Irish wolfhounds in a suitable setting!

Dorothy Dunnett using the expression, 'lavishly irrigated' to describe people who've just necked a year's worth of wine at someone else's expense may be of use to you at some point.

REMINDER: if you are in central London today to march with the Palestine Coalition, don't forget these five key 'Know Your Rights' messages – and share them with others who may not know them

People should start holding blank signs up, like they did in Russia.

Man arrested for holding sign with the words "Palestine" and "Action" on it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Made a short video about the fake story & image going around claiming to show a native American and a wolf. You can watch it here; youtu.be/HauOq1RwgJg?...

My latest: The wheels are falling off Netanyahu's government. Outside Israel, Bibi appears ascendant. But inside, the reality could not be more different. His government just lost two parties and now effectively controls just 50 of the Knesset's 120 seats and is careening toward collapse. Gift link: