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Zusatztext Sansom cleverly keeps the king just off stage for most of the novel but we can sense his monstrously obese and malevolent presence lurking in the shadows. The threads of Sansom's plot are skilfully woven together with real and riveting history Informationen zum Autor C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. Sansom is the bestselling author of the acclaimed Shardlake series, the Spanish Civil War thriller Winter in Madrid and the number one bestseller Dominion . in 2023, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Sussex. Klappentext Praise for C. J. Sansom's Shardlake Series Dissolution 'Remarkable . . . The sights! the voices! the very smell of this turbulent age seem to rise from the page' P.D. James Dark Fire 'Magnificent. A creation of real brilliance' Sunday Times Sovereign 'A devilishly ingenious whodunnit . . . Sansom is a master storyteller' Guardian Revelation 'Superb . . . don't expect to put the book down until you've seen it through to the apocalyptic finale' Observer Heartstone 'At once compulsively readable and highly satisfying' Daily Express Lamentation 'A triumph . . . the best Shardlake yet' Independent on Sunday The eagerly anticipated Shardlake novel from the number one bestselling author. Zusammenfassung 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 . ...
