Niccolo Rising
- Author Dorothy Dunnett
- Narrator John Banks
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 23 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical adventure fiction, Historical romance.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett, read by John Banks.
The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyers apprentice who schemes and swashbucukes his way to the helm of a merchantile empire. NICCOLO RISING, Book One of the series, finds us in Bruges, 1460. Street smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and the well-timed untruth, Dunnett's hero rises from wastrel to prodigy in a breathless adventure that wins him the love of the strongest woman in Bruges and the hatred of two powerful enemies. NICCOLO RISING combines history, adventure and high romance in the tradition stretching from Alexandre Dumas to Mary Renault.
Critics Review
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Praise for Dorothy Dunnett
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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 -
A masterpiece of historical fiction
Washington Post -
One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas
Cleveland Plain Dealer -
Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety
The Times
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