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Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 068

Date and Pages

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  • August 2000, 40 A4 Pages (including Covers)

Editor

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Front Cover

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  • Standard cover green on white, with borders

Back Cover

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  • Solid green

Articles

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Illustrations and Photos

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  • Photographs top table at Stirling with DD and others look at Tribute Book - credited Olive Millward and Paula Garrow
  • Photograph of group of readers in the courtyard at Stirling - credited Douglas Robertson
  • Photographs of Craigmillar, from outside and the Great Hall - Valerie Bierman
  • Photograph of Bruges, Sepulchre of the Holy Blood - Ann McMillan
  • Photograph of Dorothy Dunnett with her red Porsche - unattributed
  • Photographs of Gateway, Coldingham Priory, the bridge at Lauder, trip to Ferniehurst Castle - credited Margaret Murphy, last two credited Paula Garrow

Ephemera

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  • Edinburgh 2K - Rebecca Singer
  • The Musical Worlds of Niccolo and Lymond, CD released by Edinburgh Renaissance Band - unattributed
  • Gathering Queries, such as source of G2000 logo {DD herself) and so on - unattributed
  • Audiobook of 'Niccolo Rising' read by Stephen Pacey still available - unattributed
  • Essex Day - Linda Butcher
  • Congratulations to Betty Moxon on her O.B.E. for work in Home Office on child prostitution - unattributed
  • From Edinburgh Evening News, interview DD on meeting Muriel Spark - interviewer John Gibson
  • From The Scotsman, hunt for the Bonaventure treasure - reporter Jane Smernicki
  • From Dundee Courier, holes by fireplaces in Stirling probably for dogs to keep warm - unattributed
  • From Radio Times, on medical ignorance of porphyria in George III - Dr. Mark Porter
  • From Scotland on Sunday, DD's series bear witness to Walter Scott's legacy - James Robertson
  • For Sale, 18th-century mansion house of Castle Semple - unattributed
  • From 'Scotland on Sunday', excerpt review of 'Gemini - Susie McGuire
  • The Fiendish Essex Quiz, What Ails Ye? with answers - Linda Butcher

Letters

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Scotland

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  • Karen McKenna - glad WG will continue 2 years at least, response to WG067, loved all of Gemini, like KH in showing mutually sustaining partners, feels now the HN has matched the LC, the impact of CM
  • Joy Madden - imagines DD at her desk finishing Gemini with quill pen and parchment

Wales

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  • Mike Brain - responses to WG067, some queries about Gemini, signing at Waterstone's in Manchester well-supported, great reading from sledge race between Henry and Jodi, DD suggested she might write non-fiction work based on her Thorfinn/Macbeth research.

England

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  • Annette Ward - having read Gemini tried to work out six children; wants WG to continue, impressed at way DD's works deal with range of social issues like disability, race, PTSD; her way with red herrings worth discussion (had worried about le Grant, ignored Julius)
  • Stella Hall with Pauline Sparks - awaiting Gemini, visited Bruges, found bear, Adorne's church, tomb of Charles the Bold and more
  • Kate Hannam - went straight to skim Epilogue in Gemini and relieved to find characters alive, fell for flawed Lymond in Henry and now happy he will live again in Lymond
  • Jo Kirkham - visit to Museum of St John's Order, London, painting Leone Strozzi, cannon used at Famagusta, armour, paintings of Rhodes; always aware of DD connections, a debt to her
  • Janet Angelini - Gemini not as effective as CM to end series, Nicholas seems blunted, Kathi strange over death of her child, too much left unexplained
  • Ros Williams - dipped into Gemini, disappointed in epilogue, no Gelis-Nicholas scene, Lymond now has mediocre Crawford heritage
  • Shirley Wade - very disappointed, not psychologically credible that Nicholas would protect Julius when he is killing the rest of his family, reread Nicholas perhaps as spider in center of web with lust for power. sentimental ending unconvincing
  • Maureen Allan - Gemini a tour de force, DD neatly resolved nearly every puzzle, creates loving and happy family for main characters
  • Linda Butcher - responses to WG067; opening pages Gemini reminiscent of opening GOK, L's return
  • Avril Brodey - report on Gathering Edinburgh and Manchester book signing, DD's generosity of spirit

USA

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  • Jerilyn Falconer - will meet many in Philadephia, Yvonne Davis introduced her to LC; was so enthralled with Nicholas that didn't reread LC for several years, fell in love again--husband threatens suit for alienation of affections; did we discuss Russell's 'The Sparrow' she called a thank-you to DD for LC?
  • Nancy Silberstein - Geminis tone elegaic, all has changed, Bruges no longer commercial center it was, etc., sadness too in knowing will never read another Dunnett historical for first time
  • Miriam Sanner - responses to WG067, will be at Edinburgh, has anyone reconstructed 'puzzle' sent by Nicholas to his grandfather?
  • Joan D. Gmitter - visited Poland, underwhelmed by the river Vistula, not wide, sparse traffic, but reconstruction Gdansk (Danzig), 90% destroyed in WWII, to 16th-century self is amazing, resembles Bruges somewhat with fully restored crane; Torun (Thorn) worth visit.

Forthcoming Events

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  • Confraternity of Francis and Niccolò, Rye, February 2001
  • Oxford Dunnett Day November 2000

Advertisements

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  • 'Gemini' - Michael Joseph
  • House of Niccolò series, 7 Volumes - Penguin paperbacks

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