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The House of Niccolo 05 - The Unicorn Hunt
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The House of Niccolo 05 - The Unicorn HuntThe House of Niccolo 05 - The Unicorn Hunt

Last encountered in Scales of Gold , ruthlessly determined Flemish banker/knight Nicholas vander Poele, protagonist of Dunnett's House of Niccolo series, embarks on a new set of adventures that take him across late-15th century Europe from Flanders to Egypt. After a useful recap of the saga's previous four volumes, Nicholas sails to Scotland, where he confronts his archenemy, Simon de St. Pol, who may be the father of the child whom Nicholas's wife, Gelis van Borselen, is carrying. Months later, back in Flanders, vengeful Gelis, in order to punish Nicholas for fathering an illegitimate child by her sister, hides her newborn boy.
 
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Tags: Nicholas, House, Gelis, child, Flanders, Niccolo
The House of Niccolo 06 - To Lie With Lions
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The House of Niccolo 06 - To Lie With LionsThe House of Niccolo 06 - To Lie With Lions

Nicholas de Fleury, cosmopolitan merchant banker of late-15th century Venice, burgher of Bruges, master manipulator who craves absolute personal power, stands at the dawn of the modern age, shedding light on our own. In this sixth engrossing installment of her House of Niccolo saga (following The Unicorn Hunt), Scottish novelist Dunnett focuses on her scheming, autocratic, charming hero's startlingly modern open marriage to quick-witted, self-sufficient Gelis van Borselen.
 
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Tags: Niccolo, House, modern, novelist, Dunnett, Lions, Scottish
The House of Niccolo 07 - Caprice and Rondo
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The House of Niccolo 07 - Caprice and RondoThe House of Niccolo 07 - Caprice and Rondo

This latest installment in Dunnett's House of Niccolo series finds her hero, Nicholas de Fleury, in exile in Poland, having given up his shares in his far-flung banking enterprise in the preceding book, To Lie with Lions (1996), and alienated his friends and family in pursuit of a private vendetta. As his next step, he embarks on a journey to Caffa, the Genoese colony in the Crimea, in the company of Anna, the beautiful and mysterious wife of the notary Julius. The three years the novel covers take him to Persia and Russia. In Persia, he accompanies the papal envoy to Tabriz to persuade the ruler to take arms against the Turks.
 
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Tags: Niccolo, House, Persia, Julius, three, Rondo, Caprice
The House of Niccolo 08 - Gemini
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The House of Niccolo 08 - GeminiThe House of Niccolo 08 - Gemini

'Dunnett's legion of devoted readers will need no recommendation to buy GEMINI. They would, I imagine, walk barefoot to the bookshop over broken glass to get it...Anyone reading this novel, even as an introduction to Dunnett's work will, I suspect, join that band of admirers' Sunday Times GEMINI represents the final appearance of Nicholas de Fleury, who opened this series as a carefree, clumsy 18 year old apprentice in Flanders. Now he is in his thirties. The culmination of this amazing series sees Niccolo face his toughest battle yet, against an enemy who will tax every skill he has acquired over the course of the last few years...
 
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Tags: Niccolo, series, GEMINI, Dunnett, thirties, House
The House of Niccolo 01 - Niccolo Rising
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The House of Niccolo 01 - Niccolo RisingThe House of Niccolo 01 - Niccolo Rising

Dunnett has chosen the 15th-century Low Countries as the setting for her new historical series. The four-page list of characters announces the panoply of individuals, many based on historical persons. The fictional Claus, later Niccolo, is an apprentice at the Bruges branch of the Charetty company, run by the widowed owner. Claus is an engima, seemingly a buffoon getting into scrapes with Felix, the Charetty heir, but also capable of initiating a courier service in connection with the Charetty commercial and mercenary ventures. In an era of economic and political intrigue, Claus makes the most of all opportunitiesromantic and business.
 
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Tags: Claus, Niccolo, Charetty, historical, courier, Rising, House