Number one bestselling author C. J. Sansom heads to Norwich, as Shardlake embarks upon a new investigation...
C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex until becoming a full-time writer. Sansom is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Shardlake series, as well as Winter in Madrid and Dominion. He lives in Sussex.
Tudor England of 1549 is effortlessly evoked. The murder mystery
absorbs, the characters are vivid and the history is seductive, but
it's the author's inclusive humanity that lingers
*Daily Mail*
Tudor terror tingles through C. J. Sansom's murder mystery novels .
. . With remarkable expertise, sustained over more than 850 pages,
Sansom weaves together a wide cast of characters and knits his
murder story into a vivid tapestry of little-known historical
happenings
*Sunday Times*
Sansom handles his huge cast with aplomb. This is a totally
immersive and vividly written tale: compelling reading for history
lovers and crime aficionados alike
*Guardian*
Sansom has the trick of writing an enthralling narrative. Like
Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that
absorb their readers in another time
*Spectator*
Sansom blends impeccable historical research with a bloody good
whodunnit
*The Times*
Sansom has the rare knack of bringing the past to life in three
dimensions . . . The honest Shardlake shines like a beacon
*Daily Telegraph*
Tudor England has never seemed so vibrantly alive and viscerally
authentic than in the pages of the extraordinary Matthew Shardlake
novels and after a four-year wait, C.J. Sansom’s mild-mannered,
middle-aged, hunchback lawyer makes a magnificent return.
*Lancashire Evening Post*
Shardlake is a superb creation who gains more substance with each
new book . . . A grand historical epic . . . 800 pages in
Shardlake's company will always fly by
*Observer*
I really don’t think crime writing comes much better than this, and
as always with Sansom there is a wealth of enjoyment in his rich
storytelling . . . This novel may have been four years in the
making but it was well worth the wait.
*Nudge*
Few writers can keep readers interested over the length of 866
pages, but C. J. Sansom is one of those . . . Built on substantial
research and written with such confidence that the prose is both
smooth and colourful, Tombland is a superb achievement
*Literary Review*
Yet again C. J. Sansom has produced a novel so rich in historical
detail and colour that the reader feels immersed in Tudor
England
*S Magazine*
A compelling story that rises above the stink of stables and open
sewers . . . The marketplaces and hovels zing off the page, as does
the colourful Norfolk dialect
*The Sun*
When it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel
has a serious rival . . . A Scottish historian who had a career in
law before turning to fiction, Sansom finds an ideal protagonist in
Matthew Shardlake, the humane hunchbacked lawyer-sleuth, in his
Tudor novels
*Sunday Times*
A book to curl up with . . . At 880 pages it's a real doorstopper,
but the inventive plot is a delight, and the characterization is as
strong as ever
*Independent*
Enthralling . . . Sansom describes 16th-century events in the
crisply realistic style of someone watching them transpire right
outside his window
*New York Times*
CJ Sansom’s books are arguably the best Tudor novels going
*Sunday Times*
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