![]() ![]() ![]() He also finds the Tudor period intensely congenial to his imagination. A Scottish historian who had a career in law before turning to fiction, Sansom finds an ideal protagonist in Matthew Shardlake, the humane hunchbacked lawyer-sleuth in his Tudor novels. Ingeniously, it achieves this by combining a keen scholarly intelligence with the suspense and surprises of the detective genre. But, in contrast to her mannered approach and enthralled fixation on Cromwell, his fiction has a far faster narrative pace and fans out across a much broader field. Like Mantel's, Sansom's first two novels - Dissolution (2003) and Dark Fire (2004) - are set during Cromwell's time as Henry VIII's chief minister. Sansom had embarked on a brilliantly inventive Tudor fiction sequence, whose five novels have brought him an enormously enthusiastic and widespread readership, too. ![]() But years before she began that enterprise C. The first two novels in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy - Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012) - have won phenomenal acclaim as well as two Man Booker prizes. Mantel isn't the only novelist to keep the Tudor flag flying in the bestseller lists. Sansom shows that, when it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel has a serious rival. This gripping new novel by the inventive C. ![]()
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