Checkmate
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  • Published: 19 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780140282382
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $24.99

Checkmate

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EBook
2 Dec 2014
EBook
28 Jan 1999
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8 Nov 2018
Paperback
19 Oct 2017
Paperback
2 Dec 2014
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The sixth book in an enthralling series about the legendary Scottish warrior, Lymond - reissued with a brand new package

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.
  • Published: 19 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780140282382
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $24.99
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A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention

New York Times

Marvellous, breathtaking

The Times

One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas

Cleveland Plain Dealer

A masterpiece of historical fiction

Washington Post

Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety

The Times

Vivid, engaging, densely plotted - are almost certainly destined to be counted among the classics of popular fiction

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