Like her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, the books in
Dorothy Dunnett's The House of
Niccolò series are filled with bravura
storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail.
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
dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles
his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.
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