You would not see me travelling hundreds of years into the future or the past, are you mad? The 1980s were safe enough for me in Blighty, but what does the future hold and we know the past was nasty. This would allow me to place loads of bets on sporting events I know the results to and invest in Apple Computers. Continue the gripping historical series with Lamentation and Tombland.Offer me a time machine and I would travel no further back than the 1980s. Ī bestselling phenomenon, the Shardlake series is perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light.

Events will converge on board one of the King’s great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour. The emerging mysteries around the young ward, and the events that destroyed Ellen’s family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne. Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone and Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. Asked to investigate claims of “monstrous wrongs” committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr.

The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis.

As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. Henry VIII’s invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that absorb their readers in another time’ – Andrew Taylor, SpectatorĮngland, 1545: England is at war. ‘When it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel has a serious rival’ – Sunday Times ?Sansom has the trick of writing an enthralling narrative. Sansom’s number one bestselling Shardlake series, for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory.

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