Sovereign - Shardlake Volume 3

b>Following on from Dissolution and Dark Fire, Sovereign is the third title in C. J. Sansom's bestselling Shardlake series. /b>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.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 for the Archbishop Cranmer - 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. 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 . . .b>Continue the gripping historical series with Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation and Tombland./b>

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I have enjoyed C. J. Sansom's series of historical novels set in Tudor England progressively more and more. Sovereign, following Dissolution and Dark Fire, is the best so far . . . Sansom has the perfect mixture of novelistic passion and historical detail. Antonia Fraser Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year

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• Authors: C J Sansom, C. J. Sansom, Christopher J. Sansom
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.07.2015
• EAN: 9781447285854
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-8585-4
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Pan Books; Matthew Shardlake; The Shardlake series; The Shardlake series; Matthew Shardlake
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; York, Historical fiction, Yorkshire, c 1500 to c 1600, Religious and spiritual fiction, Relating to Christian people and groups, Thrillers / Historical, Historical / General, Christian / Historical, 1485–1603 (Tudor period), c 1540 to c 1549