C. J. Sansom

Tombland is the seventh novel in C. J. Sansoms number one bestselling Shardlake series.Spring, 1549.Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . .The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among the populace while the Protectors prolonged war with Scotland is proving a disastrous failure and threatens to involve France. Worst of all, the economy is in collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry.Since the old Kings death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henrys younger daughter, the Lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of the wife of John Boleyn, a distant Norfolk relation of Elizabeths mother which could have political implications for Elizabeth brings Shardlake and his assistant Nicholas Overton to the summer assizes at Norwich. There they are reunited with Shardlakes former assistant Jack Barak. The three find layers of mystery and danger surrounding the death of Edith Boleyn, as a second murder is committed.And then East Anglia explodes, as peasant rebellion breaks out across the country. The yeoman Robert Kett leads a force of thousands in overthrowing the landlords and establishing a vast camp outside Norwich. Soon the rebels have taken over the city, Englands second largest.Barak throws in his lot with the rebels; Nicholas, opposed to them, becomes a prisoner in Norwich Castle; while Shardlake has to decide where his ultimate loyalties lie, as government forces in London prepare to march north and destroy the rebels. Meanwhile he discovers that the murder of Edith Boleyn may have connections reaching into both the heart of the rebel camp and of the Norfolk gentry . . .

Inolvidable, irresistible e imprescindible, Invierno en Madrid es una novela de amor y espionaje que trata sobre la dificultad de elegir bien en un momento marcado por la guerra. Año 1940. Europa esta en manos de los nazis. En plena posguerra, Madrid pasa hambre y se ha convertido en un hervidero de espias de todas las potencias mundiales. Harry Brett, un antiguo soldado ingles que participo en la guerra civil y trabaja para el servicio secreto britanico, debe ganarse la confianza de un antiguo condiscipulo, Sandy Forsyth, a fin de averiguar a que negocios turbios se dedica en la España de Franco. Mientras tanto, Barbara Clare, la novia de Sandy, ex enfermera de la Cruz Roja, tambien tiene una mision secreta: encontrar al que fue su amante, Bernie Piper, un voluntario comunista de las Brigadas Internacionales que desparecio tras la Batalla del Jarama.

A special 10th anniversary edition of the standalone bestseller, Winter in Madrid, by the author of the much-loved Shardlake series, C. J. Sansom. 1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe. Britain now stands alone while General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war. Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett: a traumatized veteran of Dunkirk turned reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of old school friend Sandy Forsyth, now a shady Madrid businessman, Harry finds himself involved in a dangerous game - and surrounded by memories. Meanwhile Sandy's girlfriend, ex-Red Cross nurse Barbara Clare, is engaged in a secret mission of her own - to find her former lover Bernie Piper, a passionate Communist in the International Brigades, who vanished on the bloody battlefields of the Jarama. In a vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom is an intimate and compelling tale which offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding, and the profound impact of impossible choices.

Matthew Shardlake is back in Lamentation, from the number one bestselling author C. J. Sansom. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henrys successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henrys sixth wife, Matthew Shardlakes old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen. For Catherine Parr has a secret. She has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the Kings attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. But, although the book was kept secret and hidden inside a locked chest in the Queens private chamber, it has - inexplicably - vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. Shardlakes investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him and Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of the politics of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again. Loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be equally dangerous, and the political opportunists, who will follow the wind wherever it blows, more dangerous than either. The theft of Queen Catherines book proves to be connected to the terrible death of Anne Askew, while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake.

Shardlake goes to war...It's Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel...Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed against his young ward, Hugh Curteys, by Sir Nicholas Hobbey, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth. There, Shardlake also intends to investigate the mysterious ...

No podemos huir de la historia... Año 1940. Imparables, los alemanes invaden Europa. Madrid pasa hambre y se ha convertido en un hervidero de espías de todas las potencias mundiales. Harry Brett es un antiguo soldado que conocio la Guerra Civil y quedo traumatizado tras la evacuacion de Dunkerque. Ahora trabaja para el servicio secreto britanico: debe ganarse la confianza de su antiguo condiscipulo Sandy Forsyth, quien se dedica a negocios turbios en la España del Caudillo. Por el camino, Harry se vera envuelto en un juego muy peligroso y asaltado por amargos recuerdos. Mientras tanto, la novia de Sandy, una antigua enfermera de la Cruz Roja llamada Barbara Clare, tiene su propia mision secreta: encontrar a su antiguo amante, Bernie Piper, un voluntario comunista de las Brigadas Internacionales que desaparecio tras la batalla del Jarama. Inolvidable, irresistible e imprescindible, Invierno en Madrid es una novela de amor y espionaje que trata sobre la dificultad de elegir en un mundo marcado por la guerra. Invierno en Madrid tiene el potencial suficiente, desde el punto de vista literario, para convertirse en un fenomeno como La sombra del viento o Soldados de Salamina. Enric Castello, La Vanguardia Una novela con calidad literaria que, literalmente, uno no puede dejar de leer: llena de giros inesperados, detalles autenticos y dramas reales. Un logro extraordinario. Laura Wilson, The Guardian Si te gustan Sebastian Faulks y Carlos Ruiz Zafon, te encantara esta novela. Daily Express

Invierno de 1537, Inglaterra. Bajo el reinado de Enrique VIII, la disolución de los monasterios está en marcha. Thomas Cromwell, el temido vicario general del rey, se enfrenta a la Iglesia católica con leyes draconianas y la mayor red de informadores nunca vista. Y mientras la tension aumenta, en el monasterio benedictino de Scarnsea, el comisionado de Cromwell aparece decapitado. Ante la gravedad del hecho, el vicario envia al monasterio al abogado Matthew Shardlake, un reformista de aguda inteligencia y caracter noble, para que dirija la investigacion. Pero cuando Shardlake y su joven secretario Mark Poer llegan a Scarnsea, el panorama no puede ser mas desolador. Bajo la aparente calma monacal se esconde un mundo de delitos sexuales, malversacion de fondos, traicion y, para colmo, otros dos terribles crimenes. Ademas, el trabajo del abogado se ve perturbado por unos desagradables descubrimientos sobre Cromwell y la Reforma que haran vacilar su fe. Con una trama minuciosamente elaborada, El gallo negro es una apasionante novela de intriga que refleja el largo y dificil camino para despojar al poder eclesiastico del papel normativo que ejercia en la sociedad.

Heartsone is C. J. Sansom's fifith spellbinding mystery inthe Shardlake series. Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. 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. 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. 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. Events will converge on board one of the King's great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour ...

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The eagerly anticipated Shardlake novel from the number one bestselling author.Matthew Shardlake is back in Lamentation, from the number one bestselling author C. J. Sansom.Summer, 1546.King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry''s successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry''s sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake''s old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr.Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen.For Catherine Parr has a secret. She has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King''s attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. But, although the book was kept secret and hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen''s private chamber, it has - inexplicably - vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer.Shardlake''s investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him and Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of the politics of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again. Loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be equally dangerous, and the political opportunists, who will follow the wind wherever it blows, more dangerous than either.The theft of Queen Catherine''s book proves to be connected to the terrible death of Anne Askew, while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake.The previous books in the bestselling Shardlake series are Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation and Heartstone.

The eagerly anticipated Shardlake novel from the number one bestselling author.Matthew Shardlake is back in Lamentation, from the number one bestselling author C. J. Sansom.Summer, 1546.King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry''s successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry''s sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake''s old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr.Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen.For Catherine Parr has a secret. She has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King''s attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. But, although the book was kept secret and hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen''s private chamber, it has - inexplicably - vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer.Shardlake''s investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him and Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of the politics of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again. Loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be equally dangerous, and the political opportunists, who will follow the wind wherever it blows, more dangerous than either.The theft of Queen Catherine''s book proves to be connected to the terrible death of Anne Askew, while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake.The previous books in the bestselling Shardlake series are Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation and Heartstone.

Mientras Enrique VIII intenta seducir a Catalina Parr a fin de que acepte convertirse en su sexta esposa, el arzobispo Cranmer y la facción protestante de la corte observan los acontecimientos con suma atencion. En efecto, en un periodo en el que el Rey ha empezado a recuperar las antiguas costumbres religiosas promoviendo una suerte de catolicismo sin Papa, las notorias simpatias reformistas de Catalina pueden volcar la balanza a favor del prelado. En estas circunstancias, Matthew Shardlake se propone investigar el repentino y misterioso asesinato de un muy apreciado compañero de profesion, y con la inestimable ayuda de un amigo medico seguira la pista de un sospechoso que parece inspirarse en las profecias del Libro de las Revelaciones. En esta nueva y emocionante novela de suspense en la mejor tradicion inglesa del genero, C. J. Sansom vuelve a describir con acertado realismo las convulsiones politicas y religiosas de una epoca marcada por la pasion, la codicia y el terror. Revelacion retrata fielmente los escenarios y personajes de la Inglaterra de los Tudor, al tiempo que expone los claroscuros morales e intelectuales de un regimen cuyos logros amenazan con ser destruidos por la corrupcion, la crueldad y la ambicion.

Tras el fenomenal éxito obtenido en España con Invierno en Madrid, C. J. Sansom —autor de ventas millonarias en el Reino Unido con sus novelas de suspense— vuelve con el polifacético Matthew Shardlak

A popular mystery writer breaks out with this page-turning international bestseller set in post-Civil War Spain September 1940: the Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid lies in ruin, while the Germans continue their march through Europe, and General Franco evades Hitler's request that he lead his broken country into yet another war. Into this uncertain world comes a reluctant spy for the British Secret Service, sent to gain the confidence of Sandy Forsyth, an old school friend turned shady Madrid businessman. Meanwhile, an ex-Red Cross nurse is engaged in a secret mission of her own. Through this dangerous game of intrigue, C. J. Sansom's riveting tale conjures a remarkable sense of history unfolding and the profound impact of impossible choices.

1940: Nach dem Burgerkrieg liegt Madrid in Ruinen. In diesen unsicheren Zeiten erhalt der britische Kriegsveteran Harry Brett einen schwierigen Auftrag: Er soll in Madrid Kontakt mit seinem Jugendfreund Sandy aufnehmen, der angeblich den Diktator Franco unterstutzt. Harry findet in Madrid nicht nur eine Welt des Kampfes um Menschlichkeit vor, sondern gerat in den Bann einer groen, tragischen Liebe

It's Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. 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. 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 Fettipace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. 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. Events will converge on board one of the King's great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour..