Dorothy Dunnett Society

Niccolò Rising has recently been released as a new audiobook, and the Society has now opened affiliate accounts with audiobook sellers Audible.com and Audible.co.uk (both part of Amazon).  If you use our special links below to go to Audible, you could earn a referral fee of up to 12% for the Society on every full-price purchase you make.  Or if you go one step further and take out Audible membership as a result of following one of our links, the Society will receive a generous one-off lump sum in commission.   Sadly, we cannot earn a referral fee from those who are existing members of Audible and who use credits to buy audiobooks.

If you prefer your Niccolò Rising audiobook on CD, you can buy a CD box set from Amazon.co.uk via http://dunnettcentral.org/shop/amazon.

To visit the Audible.co.uk home page, go to
http://tinyurl.com/bwrc7u8.

Or, if you’d like to go directly to the new audiobook of Niccolò Rising (UK),
click here.

To visit the Audible.com (USA) home page go to
http://tinyurl.com/cv3juq6.

Or, if you’d like to go directly to the new audiobook of Niccolò Rising (USA), click here.

Niccolò Rising is now available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Gordon Griffin – and if you buy it using our special Amazon UK link about 5% of what you spend will be donated to the Dorothy Dunnett Society as a referral fee.  Buy Niccolò Rising on audio CD here.

This year’s Edinburgh gathering and AGM at the Royal Over-Seas League attracted over ninety participants  and we were delighted to welcome our speakers, prizewinners, members and friends from France, Germany, Iceland, Canada and the USA in addition to the UK delegates.  Events kicked off with dinner at the Sheraton on Friday night, followed on Saturday by a day of talks and discussions at the RO-SL, culminating in the AGM at which Anne Buchanan stepped down as a Trustee and Ann Auchterlonie was elected.  A Gala Dinner (complete with piper) rounded off the day in spectacular fashion.  Sunday’s events included a guided tour of Edinburgh Castle with a “high tea” lunch; optional visits to the Surgeons’ Hall or the Royal Mile; a tour of Mary King’s Close; and finally a very special private tour of the Royal Apartments at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.  Our thanks and congratulations to our brilliant organiser, Kathy Lewis, who did us proud!

Fri 28 June – Sun 17 November

Discover the dramatic story of Mary Queen of Scots at the National Museum of Scotland.  The exhibition will draw on the museum’s Scottish collections, supported by international loans, illuminating Mary’s turbulent life in a fresh, new light.

You might like to check out this month’s edition of History Today (page 38) which has a full description of the travels of Richard Chancellor and Osip Nepeia together with some nice pictures.  Well worth a read! Thanks to Sue for the link.