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C.J. Sansom - Heartstone (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Shardlake #5
England, 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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- Format : Very Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good (Slight sticker removal damage to bottom of back cover, otherwise Very Good)
- Category : Fiction - Historical Fiction
- Published : 2010 (This Edition 2011 - Pan Books)
- ISBN : 9780330447119
- SKU : B002266
- PPC : SP700gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Sansom has the trick of writing an enthralling narrative. Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that absorb their readers in another time' - Andrew Taylor, Spectator.
"Fans will need no introduction to Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer embroiled in dark secrets during the reign of Henry VIII. Newcomers can discover why Sansom's Tudor mysteries exert such a pull." - The Independent.
"The best novel in this richly entertaining series . . . History never seemed so real." - New York Times.
The Author
Christopher John Sansom is a British writer of historical crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor.
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