


Now, I could be describing any number of historical fiction series, but this one, in particular, blew me away. You feel like the books are true escapism and that you can visualize the world that the author has created using a combination of facts and fictional ideas. You feel like you are friends with the protagonist and his pals and you despise the nefarious villains that try to thwart the efforts of the heroes. Continue the number one bestselling historical series with Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation and Tombland.Have you ever read a historical fiction series that made you stop and think that the plots of the books could be possible? They make you question the way you look at the past and wonder why no one had ever written a series like it before. 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. But 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. 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. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that absorb their readers in another time' - Andrew Taylor, Spectator 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. '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. Following on from Dissolution and Dark Fire, Sovereign is the third gripping historical novel in C.
