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C.J. Sansom
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born
January 01, 1952
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male
place of birth
The United Kingdom
about this author
Christopher John "C.J." Sansom is an English writer of crime novels. He was born in 1952 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. He practised for a while in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before quitting in order to work full-time as a writer.
He came to prominence with his series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century, whose main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake. Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution and Dark Fire and then Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation.
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake #1) by C.J. Sansom avg rating 3.88 — 530 ratings — published 2003 17 editions |
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Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake #2) by C.J. Sansom avg rating 3.93 — 361 ratings — published 2004 16 editions |
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Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake #3) by C.J. Sansom avg rating 4.02 — 318 ratings — published 2006 8 editions |
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Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom avg rating 3.52 — 418 ratings — published 2006 9 editions |
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Revelation (Matthew Shardlake #4) by C.J. Sansom avg rating 4.11 — 239 ratings — published 2008 11 editions |
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The C J Sansom CD Box Set: "Dissolution" , "Dark Fire" , "Sovereign" , "Revelation" by C.J. Sansom, Anton Lesser avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5) by C.J. Sansom avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 2 editions |
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Pforte der Verdammnis by C.J. Sansom avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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