The next book in the Matthew Shardlake series and this one has to be the best one so far. I simply couldn´t put this book down, so much tension was there. I loved the historical backdrop of this novel, Shardlake and Barack being in York with the Progress and their encounter with Henry VIII. and the ...
bookshelves: historical-fiction, mystery-thriller, published-2006, re-visit-2015, radio-4, tudor, series, play-dramatisation, paper-read, hardback, a-cut-above Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from January 17, 2007 to October 03, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bglnfRevisit is ...
Three things I fear when I start a book. A book which is not borrowed but bought from my own savings, a book which with these three points can spell “Yawanathon” for me and can literally throw me into financial ruin for investing in a worthless adventure. Those three points are,1. The author’s procl...
I need more stars! How did it take me this long to discover CJ Sansom? I'm not sure, but I am grateful for this book showing up in a local used book store and catching my eye. A group read of Dissolution got me started on this series, and the rest, as they say, is history.Oh, the history! No other w...
So close to four stars! But there was one thing throughout the book that drove me absolutely bonkers, forcing me to knock half a star off and give this book 3.5 stars. Sansom has so much talent but he really needs to fire his editing team. When it comes to grammatical errors in books, I'm not usuall...
Autumn, 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. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the Kin...
Autumn 1541. A plot against the throne has been uncovered, and Henry VIII has set off on a spectacular progress from London to York, along with a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, to quell his rebellious northern subjects. Awaiting his arrival are la...
It's 1541 and Henry VIII has set out on a royal progress, or show of force. Matthew Shardlake is already in York, sent by Archbishop Cranmer to ensure the welfare of a prisoner held there on conspiracy charges, due to be questioned and killed later in London. Shortly after he arrives he stumbles o...
Damn this is a good series. It's so good I don't know how I waited so long between reading the first one - Dissolution and the sequels. They are all truly excellent historical novels, but this third one really struck me as particularly evocative of time and place and, let me tell you, this isn't a t...
I must admit that a friend gave me Sovereign, by C. J. Sansom, years ago and I was hesitant about it. I was turned off by the fact that it was third in a series and thought I would find it difficult to follow. But having lately been running low on books I returned to it and realized I was so very ...
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