I’m still on the Dorothy Dunnett vibe.

Out of the six Lymond Chronicles, Pawn in Frankincense is my favourite. It’s partly why I know a bit about the Ottoman Empire and Constantinople. Lymond is causing havoc around the Mediterranean, especially in the court of Suleiman the Magnificent and his powerful wife, Roxelana.

I was delighted to see, last week, that Anatoly Fomenko and team have published a new NC book – Who is Roksalana?

Woohoo!

I’m going to have to wait until I can get a hold of it, though. Shoot.

Anyways – A word of warning about Pawn in Frankincense…Don’t read the Chess Game chapter in a public coffee house. Sniffling and dabbing your eyeballs with every serviette in the vicinity gets you some Very Strange Looks.

Just saying :o)