To Lie with Lions - The House of Niccolo 6 (Paperback, New Ed)

With the bravura story-telling she brought to the Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents the House of Niccolò series. The time is the fifteenth century: the Renaissance world of trade, banking and war when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them none is bolder or more cunning then Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.

It is 1471. The rival lions of Cyprus and Burgundy, England and France stalk and snarl: Nicholas may pick which arena he pleases. Returned to Scotland he trades, makes music, makes himself loved - not least by his little son Jordan, newly wrested from Gelis, his wife. Then comes the magic of Iceland, and with it the climax of the venture which will mark the turning point of his life, and of the long, strange war with his beautiful wife.