Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that absorb their readers in another time’ - Andrew Taylor, Spectatorĭissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C. ‘Sansom has the trick of writing an enthralling narrative. 'When it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel has a serious rival' - Sunday Times Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series, for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory. Tudor England is brought to vivid life in C. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes. Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege - a black cockerel sacrificed on the altar, and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic. Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen.
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Sansom, followed by Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone and Lamentation. Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C.
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