Niccolo Rising
Dorothy Dunnett

Narrated By: John Banks

Duration: 23 hours and 29 minutes

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.

Genre

Historical adventure fiction, Historical romance

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Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety

Marvellous, breathtaking

One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas

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

Praise for Dorothy Dunnett

A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention

A masterpiece of historical fiction