Sovereign (The Shardlake series, 3) - Hardcover

Sansom, C. J.

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9781405050487: Sovereign (The Shardlake series, 3)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405050489 ISBN 13: 9781405050487

Publisher: Macmillan, 2006

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Autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at 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 King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission – to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation.

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 the Great Progress arrives in the city, Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers that holds danger for the King's throne, and a chain of events unfolds that will lead Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age.

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Review:

'Don’t open this book if you have anything urgent pending...you’ll
have to be almost physically prised away from it.' -- The Sunday Times

'Historical crime fiction at its best.’ -- Sainsbury’s magazine

'I was enthralled by Sovereign' -- PD James, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph

'Sansom is excellent on contemporary horrors...You can lose
yourself in this world.' -- The Independent

'So compulsive that, until you reach its final page, you’ll have
to be almost physically prised away from it.’ -- Sunday Times

'This is a compelling read, vividly capturing the atmosphere of
constant fear' -- Sunday Telegraph

'deeper, stronger and subtler than most novels in this genre..The
series is becoming an annual treat' -- Independent on Sunday

It’s deeper, stronger and subtler than most novels in this genre
(including Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose) . . . ‘ -- Independent on Sunday

This gripping and engaging series seems ominously prescient about
the present, as well as genuinely enlightening about the past’ -- Independent on Sunday

‘This series just gets better and better’ -- Bookseller

Book Description:

The third novel in the compelling Shardlake series

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