The author's depiction of Tudor times is second to none. Daily living and all its struggles are injected into this story without becoming info-dumps or narrations of boring detail. Cromwell makes a couple of brief appearances, and he is realistically written, if not as sympathetically as in Mantel's novels. Walter Scott historical fiction shortlist announced". BBC News. 1 April 2011 . Retrieved 12 June 2011.

Finding a new one is difficult. There is no shortage, but sorting the wheat from the chaff is not easy. The series that is right for you may not be right for me; after all, if you’re investing a lot of time – and money – in a dozen or so books, you need to get it right. Over the last year or so, whilst reading and reviewing books in other series, I have occasionally come across references to C J Sansom’s Shardlake books, so thought it was time to give them a go.Production of “Shardlake” has already begun, with filming taking place in Hungary, Austria and Romania. Sansom also said that he plans to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I. [2] The six first books are set during the reign of Henry VIII, while the seventh, Tombland, takes place two years after the king's demise. Sansom has said that he plans to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I. [1] Description [ edit ] A view eastwards along the chancel of the church at the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx Abbey in the Yorkshire Wolds. The monastery was founded in the 12th century and abandoned during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Inspired by his fascination with the Tudors and his love of crime novels, he set his debut in a fictional monastery near his home on the Sussex coast on the eve of Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries.

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.” El nuevo comisionado enviado a resolver este entuerto, es muestro protagonista, el abogado Shardlake. One of Sansom's biggest fans is Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse, who said Dissolution was one of the best crime novels he had read in 2003." A BBC commission of an adaptation of the first Sansom novel, Dissolution, is expected to be followed by more of the Shardlake books. Sansom, a former solicitor who lives in Sussex, is working on a fourth Shardlake story and has been consulted on the TV series.

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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.” From the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion comes the exciting and elegantly written first novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series Tombland by CJ Sansom review – royals and revolting peasants". the Guardian. 28 October 2018 . Retrieved 11 November 2022. After Dark Fire was published, a Sunday Times review made this comment: "Historical crime fiction is sometimes little more than a modern adventure in fancy dress. Not so the novels of CJ Sansom, whose magnificent books set in the reign of Henry VIII bring to life the sounds and smells of Tudor England..." [3] I know he was worried about starting a war with Spain and France, but wouldn’t this all have been easier and saved a lot of hanging, beheading, burnings etc. if only Catherine of Aragon had say had an accident in the bath or had a bit of loose stone masonry fall on her head? Not that I wish ill on Catherine. She seems to be the one purity in this whole sordid mess, but would thousands of lives been spared?