C.J. Sansom

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born

January 01, 1952 in The United Kingdom

gender

male

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http://cjsansombooks.com/

genre

Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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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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Average rating: 4.06 · 17,794 ratings · 2,523 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 4,964 ratings — published 2003 — 39 editions	My rating:
	Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4) 4.22 avg rating — 2,571 ratings — published 2008 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 2,774 ratings — published 2004 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 2,499 ratings — published 2006 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Winter in Madrid 3.61 avg rating — 1,829 ratings — published 2006 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5) 4.17 avg rating — 1,561 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The C J Sansom CD Box Set: "Dissolution," "Dark Fire," "Sovereign," "Revelation" by C.J. Sansom, Anton Lesser (Narrator) 4.49 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	De onthechting 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Select Editions: Blue Heaven, Revelation, Nothing to Lose, Lottery by C.J. Box, C.J. Sansom, Lee Child 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:

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Matthew Shardlake (5 books)
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“We of alien looks or words must stick together.”
― C.J. Sansom

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“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dissolution

tags: nationalism , xenophobia

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Stardust - Neil Gaiman

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The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

3 votes 25.0%

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

1 vote 8.3%

Dissolution - C.J. Sansom

1 vote 8.3%

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

1 vote 8.3%

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez

1 vote 8.3%

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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