C.J Sansom's Shardlake series
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If anyone is interested C.J Sansom releases a new Shardlake book in October and I can't wait to read all of the 592 pages.I love this series.
Here's the blurb from Good Reads;
Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake #6)
by C.J. Sansom
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 · rating details · 4 ratings · 1 review
As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart in the new installment of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series.
Autumn, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors prepare for a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. The Catholics decide to focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, the Protestant Queen Catherine Parr. As Catherine begins to lose the King's favor, she turns to the shrewd, hunchbacked lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, to contain a potentially fatal secret.
The Queen has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, a memoir so radical that if it came to the King's attention, it could bring her and her courtly sympathizers to ruination. The London printer into whose hands she entrusted the manuscript has been murdered, the book nowhere to be found.
Shardlake's investigations take him down a trail that begins among printshops in the filthy backstreets of London, but leads him once more to the labyrinthine world of court politics, where Protestant friends can be as dangerous as Catholic enemies, and those who will support either side to further their ambition are the most dangerous of all.
According to Amazon Lamentation will be released on Kindle on October 23rd.The date for the hardcover release is not yet available.
Here's the blurb from Good Reads;
Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake #6)
by C.J. Sansom
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 · rating details · 4 ratings · 1 review
As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart in the new installment of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series.
Autumn, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors prepare for a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. The Catholics decide to focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, the Protestant Queen Catherine Parr. As Catherine begins to lose the King's favor, she turns to the shrewd, hunchbacked lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, to contain a potentially fatal secret.
The Queen has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, a memoir so radical that if it came to the King's attention, it could bring her and her courtly sympathizers to ruination. The London printer into whose hands she entrusted the manuscript has been murdered, the book nowhere to be found.
Shardlake's investigations take him down a trail that begins among printshops in the filthy backstreets of London, but leads him once more to the labyrinthine world of court politics, where Protestant friends can be as dangerous as Catholic enemies, and those who will support either side to further their ambition are the most dangerous of all.
According to Amazon Lamentation will be released on Kindle on October 23rd.The date for the hardcover release is not yet available.
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Sad to think she won't read it.
I wonder if Anne Askew will appear in Lamentation.
(Does she appear in any of the earlier ones?)
There was talk at one point that they were going to make them into a tv series as well.
Yes, the BBC have(had) the rights, as a project for Ken Branagh.
He has been very busy of late, with films and Wallander, and I have no idea if it's still 'live'.
I have a feeling that the forthcoming Wolf Hall adaptation has scuppered it for the time being.
That's a shame I was looking forward to that.
Considering it was first muted in 2007, before he played Wallander, or at least around that time, it does seem unlikely in the immediate future.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/nov/18/books.booksnews
As I said, with Wolf Hall and Jonathon Strange etc. they seem custume dramaed out for a while.
It would have been great to see this series adapted for TV, if it was done well; as much as I liked Wolf Hall, I think the Shardlake series is maybe better suited for a screen serialisation.
I didn't realise he had been ill, but he has written another non-Shardlake novel since Heartstone called Dominion.
Bone marrow cancer I believe, diagnosed just after Dominion was written/published, as far as I can remember. He's obviously getting better, that's wonderful news.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lamentation-Shardlake-C-J-Sansom/dp/0230744192/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408532122&sr=1-1&keywords=C+j+sansom
Excellent.:)
thank you, missed it but have managed to catch it on 4extra.