As of August 11th, all of Dorothy Dunnett’s books are now available in eBook format from Vintage. Dunnett was born in 1923 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her first novel, The Game of Kings, was published in the United States in 1961, and in the United Kingdom the year after. She published 22 books in total, including the six-part Lymond Chronicles and the eight-part Niccolo Series, and co-authored another volume with her husband. In 1992 she was awarded the Office of the British Empire for services to literature. She died on November 9, 2001, at the age of 78.