![]() ![]() ![]() As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. ![]() Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. 1 Description The series protagonist is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer and then Jack Barak. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Sansom has said that he plans to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I. 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. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile.Īutumn, 1541. Read 1,206 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. 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. Sansoms bestselling Tudor crime series, featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake Summer, 1545, and England is preparing for war. It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. ![]()
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