Many people resurface after reading any of #DorothyDunnett going WTF! Even on rereads. She is that absorbing and immersive.
January 17, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Many people resurface after reading any of #DorothyDunnett going WTF! Even on rereads. She is that absorbing and immersive.
Top 10 books of 2025 (from 100, in order)
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
December 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Top 10 books of 2025 (from 100, in order)
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
#DorothyDunnett #DodieSmith #AntonioWhite #MFKFisher #ToveJansson #OliviaManning #GeorgetteHeyer #Melville
Astonishing writing. Grateful.
From the roof of the Crawfords' Boghall Castle: #GameOfThrones #DorothyDunnett "To the east lay the roofs of the barony town of Biggar, smoking in the socket of Bizzyberry Hill...the horizon was jumbled with hills." A brilliant walk up Bizzyberry this morn, pondering the ghosts of Midculter. #Lymond
December 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
From the roof of the Crawfords' Boghall Castle: #GameOfThrones #DorothyDunnett "To the east lay the roofs of the barony town of Biggar, smoking in the socket of Bizzyberry Hill...the horizon was jumbled with hills." A brilliant walk up Bizzyberry this morn, pondering the ghosts of Midculter. #Lymond
Any Hexham visit means going to the Abbey to imagine: Tom Erskine hid in the transept gallery, while battered prisoner Francis Crawford is brought in by the English to confess and be shot.. #GameOfKings #DorothyDunnett #heartstoppingbookscenes #16thcentury #Northumberland #ghostsofFlawsValley
December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Any Hexham visit means going to the Abbey to imagine: Tom Erskine hid in the transept gallery, while battered prisoner Francis Crawford is brought in by the English to confess and be shot.. #GameOfKings #DorothyDunnett #heartstoppingbookscenes #16thcentury #Northumberland #ghostsofFlawsValley
For any #DorothyDunnett readers, does this make you think of Lymond? (It's actually Lucanus describing Pompey) ...
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
For any #DorothyDunnett readers, does this make you think of Lymond? (It's actually Lucanus describing Pompey) ...
'Dinge die mit "D" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag
#DorothyDunnett die beste Autorin historischer Romane *ever*!
#DorothyDunnett die beste Autorin historischer Romane *ever*!
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
'Dinge die mit "D" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag
#DorothyDunnett die beste Autorin historischer Romane *ever*!
#DorothyDunnett die beste Autorin historischer Romane *ever*!
To get you into the mood, try K.F. MacCarthy's short story about St Kilda; the winner of the 2024 #DorothyDunnett short story competition. It is wonderfully evocative of St Kilda at the time of Roddy's book!
historiamag.com/st-kilda-bir...
historiamag.com/st-kilda-bir...
St Kilda Bird Song by KF MacCarthy (the 2024 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story winner) – Historia Magazine
historiamag.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
To get you into the mood, try K.F. MacCarthy's short story about St Kilda; the winner of the 2024 #DorothyDunnett short story competition. It is wonderfully evocative of St Kilda at the time of Roddy's book!
historiamag.com/st-kilda-bir...
historiamag.com/st-kilda-bir...
The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition longlist for 2025 – Historia Magazine
historiamag.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Sometimes #DorothyDunnett has the weirdest turns of phrase:
"...all the trading matters...were picked out and examined and fitted into their programme, one after the other, like beans being pushed into a drill."
Like what now?
"...all the trading matters...were picked out and examined and fitted into their programme, one after the other, like beans being pushed into a drill."
Like what now?
October 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sometimes #DorothyDunnett has the weirdest turns of phrase:
"...all the trading matters...were picked out and examined and fitted into their programme, one after the other, like beans being pushed into a drill."
Like what now?
"...all the trading matters...were picked out and examined and fitted into their programme, one after the other, like beans being pushed into a drill."
Like what now?
Reading The Spring of the Ram: 2 Niccolo 2 Trebizond.
Awful lot of people having sex with people with huge age differences. Tumblr would revolt. Some of it is rather revolting. #DorothyDunnett
Awful lot of people having sex with people with huge age differences. Tumblr would revolt. Some of it is rather revolting. #DorothyDunnett
September 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reading The Spring of the Ram: 2 Niccolo 2 Trebizond.
Awful lot of people having sex with people with huge age differences. Tumblr would revolt. Some of it is rather revolting. #DorothyDunnett
Awful lot of people having sex with people with huge age differences. Tumblr would revolt. Some of it is rather revolting. #DorothyDunnett
I regret to inform you that, 80% in, I am quite enjoying NICCOLO RISING by #DorothyDunnett and will probably keep reading the series. So far Niccolo is a much more enjoyable main character to me than Francis who I spent 6 books wanting to throttle.
September 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I regret to inform you that, 80% in, I am quite enjoying NICCOLO RISING by #DorothyDunnett and will probably keep reading the series. So far Niccolo is a much more enjoyable main character to me than Francis who I spent 6 books wanting to throttle.
I am reading NICCOLO RISING by #dorothydunnett and I had to spoil myself about who the main character turns out to be otherwise I was going to lose my mind.
She's a great writer but she can be needlessly hostile to her readers
She's a great writer but she can be needlessly hostile to her readers
September 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I am reading NICCOLO RISING by #dorothydunnett and I had to spoil myself about who the main character turns out to be otherwise I was going to lose my mind.
She's a great writer but she can be needlessly hostile to her readers
She's a great writer but she can be needlessly hostile to her readers
'Wofür mein Herz schlägt' #FotoVorschlag
Für das, was mein Leben sehr entscheidend geprägt hat: die Bücher von #DorothyDunnett
Ohne sie wäre ich kein #earlymodern
Für das, was mein Leben sehr entscheidend geprägt hat: die Bücher von #DorothyDunnett
Ohne sie wäre ich kein #earlymodern
August 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'Wofür mein Herz schlägt' #FotoVorschlag
Für das, was mein Leben sehr entscheidend geprägt hat: die Bücher von #DorothyDunnett
Ohne sie wäre ich kein #earlymodern
Für das, was mein Leben sehr entscheidend geprägt hat: die Bücher von #DorothyDunnett
Ohne sie wäre ich kein #earlymodern
Francis Crawford, love of my life 😭 Did I make myself cry while drawing this? Why, yes. From the first book of The Lymond Chronicles, The Game of Kings. I won’t give any spoilers to the scene, but if you know you know 🥺
#lymond #dorothydunnett
#lymond #dorothydunnett
July 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Francis Crawford, love of my life 😭 Did I make myself cry while drawing this? Why, yes. From the first book of The Lymond Chronicles, The Game of Kings. I won’t give any spoilers to the scene, but if you know you know 🥺
#lymond #dorothydunnett
#lymond #dorothydunnett
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
July 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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
Have you got a half-finished historical short story languishing away in a folder somewhere? Now's the time to finish it, polish it and submit it to the #DorothyDunnett short story competition! Deadline: 1 August!
#histfic
#competition
#histfic
#competition
Short story writers!
Historical fiction writers!
We're EXTENDING the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition deadline to midnight on 1 August.
We're looking for up to 3,500 words, set all or mainly 35+ years ago.
Entry's still only £5. See more at historicalwriters.org/ddshwass-award-2025
Historical fiction writers!
We're EXTENDING the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition deadline to midnight on 1 August.
We're looking for up to 3,500 words, set all or mainly 35+ years ago.
Entry's still only £5. See more at historicalwriters.org/ddshwass-award-2025
July 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Have you got a half-finished historical short story languishing away in a folder somewhere? Now's the time to finish it, polish it and submit it to the #DorothyDunnett short story competition! Deadline: 1 August!
#histfic
#competition
#histfic
#competition
Portrayed quite sympathetically in #RingedCastle by #DorothyDunnett
Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Hans Eworth of Antwerp. Came to England in 1545 & made good. Here painting v. stern yet somehow fragile Mary Tudor.
June 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Portrayed quite sympathetically in #RingedCastle by #DorothyDunnett
why is this the funniest paragraph I’ve ever read #LymondChronicles #DorothyDunnett #ScottishAuthors #historicalfiction
May 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
why is this the funniest paragraph I’ve ever read #LymondChronicles #DorothyDunnett #ScottishAuthors #historicalfiction
#altHallelujah
Lymond's back, the tale begins.
Scotland's rocked like skittle pins.
It's Francis Crawford causing ballyhoo now.
The lowlands burn, the cause betrayed
It's all a bloody masquerade
But always we can count on Wat Buccleuch now.
Lymond's back, the tale begins.
Scotland's rocked like skittle pins.
It's Francis Crawford causing ballyhoo now.
The lowlands burn, the cause betrayed
It's all a bloody masquerade
But always we can count on Wat Buccleuch now.
April 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Me in my head to the sports guy at the station where I work, while I’m trying to decipher and rewrite his on-camera scripts into a readable written story for the website: 😅🫠🧐
#GameOfKings #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
#talklikeanormalpersonforonceinyourlife
#GameOfKings #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
#talklikeanormalpersonforonceinyourlife
March 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Me in my head to the sports guy at the station where I work, while I’m trying to decipher and rewrite his on-camera scripts into a readable written story for the website: 😅🫠🧐
#GameOfKings #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
#talklikeanormalpersonforonceinyourlife
#GameOfKings #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
#talklikeanormalpersonforonceinyourlife
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23592796... #Ebay #EbaySeller #Books #BookLovers #BookWorm #BookSky #DorothyDunnett #TheLymondChronicles
Dorothy Dunnett Bundle x 3 Paperback Books The Lymond Chronicles Checkmate | eBay
With around 500 pages each, this collection provides a substantial reading experience for lovers of historical fiction. The Disorderly Knights. Pawn in Frankincense.
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January 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
