London: Penguin Books. Very Good-; Some reading and cover creases, publisher's blank to rear . cover, paper starting to tone. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks . inside. Wrap around cover artwork by Nicki Palin.. 1990. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; The House of Niccolo Series; Vol. 3; 560 pages; Series charting the attempt of a dyer's apprentice from Bruges to better himself in the mercantile world of the Italian Renaissance. Niccolo has turned his back on his friends and the bank he has founded because he feels compelled to seek freedom. But he is not to find it as the Queen of Cyprus needs his skills against a dangerous rival. ; 0140128212 .

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Dorothy Dunnett was born in 1923 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her time at Gillespie's High School for Girls overlapped with that of the novelist Muriel Spark. From 1940-1955, she worked for the Civil Service as a press officer. In 1946, she married Alastair Dunnett, later editor of The Scotsman . Dunnett started writing in the late 1950s. Her first novel, The Game of Kings , was published in the United States in 1961, and in the United Kingdom the year after. She published 22 books in total, including the six-part Lymond Chronicles and the eight-part Niccolo Series, and co-authored another volume with her husband. Also an accomplished professional portrait painter, Dunnett exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy on many occasions and had portraits commissioned by a number of prominent public figures in Scotland. She also led a busy life in public service, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland, a Trustee of the Scottish National War Memorial, and Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival. She served on numerous cultural committees, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1992 she was awarded the Office of the British Empire for services to literature. She died on November 9, 2001, at the age of 78.

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 25433
Title: Race Of Scorpions
Author: Dunnett, Dorothy
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-; Some reading and cover creases, publisher's blank to rear cover, paper starting to tone. ; Nice tight copy, no
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1990
Keywords: Mass Market PB
Bookseller catalogs: Historical Fiction;

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