) finds the hunchbacked barrister at the vortex of strife-torn Tudor England in the rainy autumn of 1541. Visit him on YouTube: engrossing third historical featuring Matthew Shardlake (after 2005's Dark Fire He currently lives in Sussex.īio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before leaving the legal profession to become a full-time writer. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. Ĭontinue the number one bestselling historical series with Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation and Tombland.Ĭhristopher John "C.J." Sansom is a British writer of crime novels. And when Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers which could threaten the Tudor throne, a chain of events unfolds that will lead to Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission for the Archbishop Cranmer - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation.īut the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that absorb their readers in another time' - Andrew Taylor, SpectatorĪutumn, 1541: King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York.Īlready in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. 'Sansom has the trick of writing an enthralling narrative. 'When it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel has a serious rival' - Sunday Times
Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series, for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory. Following on from Dissolution and Dark Fire, Sovereign is the third gripping historical novel in C.
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