Ĭontinue the number one bestselling historical series with Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation and Tombland. 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. 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.īut 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. When I conceived the idea of a Shardlake novel where the threads of the story would converge on board Henry VIII’s warship Mary Rose as it. Sansom's piece on the ship central to his fifth Shardlake novel, Heartstone. Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that absorb their readers in another time’ - Andrew Taylor, SpectatorĪutumn, 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.Īlready in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose is unveiled in Portsmouth 471 years after it first sank into the Solent, we revisit C. ‘Sansom has the trick of writing an enthralling narrative. 'A parchment-turner, and a regal one at that' - Sunday Times Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series, for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory.
Following on from Dissolution and Dark Fire, Sovereign is the third gripping historical novel in C.
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