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C.J. Sansom

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom

December 09, 1952

Died

April 27, 2024

Website

http://www.cjsansom.com/Homepage

Genre

Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

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Christopher John "C.J." Sansom was an English writer of crime novels.

Sansom 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.

He has also written Winter in Madrid, a thriller set in Spain in 1940 in the afterm ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 245,390 ratings · 17,240 reviews · 64 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 60,946 ratings — published 2003 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3) 4.26 avg rating — 32,535 ratings — published 2006 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 32,217 ratings — published 2004 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4) 4.37 avg rating — 27,103 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5) 4.36 avg rating — 22,614 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, #6) 4.43 avg rating — 19,492 ratings — published 2014 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter in Madrid 3.87 avg rating — 19,034 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7) 4.40 avg rating — 15,942 ratings — published 2018 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dominion 3.87 avg rating — 13,998 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The C.J. Sansom Shardlake CD Box Set (Matthew Shardlake, #1-4) by C.J. Sansom, Anton Lesser (Narrator) 4.57 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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“We of alien looks or words must stick together.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation

tags: community, exclusion, foreigners, immigrants, outsiders, society, xenophobia

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“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation

tags: apocalypse, armageddon, book-of-revelation, cruelty, destruction, fundamentalism, holocaust, mania, orthodoxy, radicalism, religion

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What book about the Tudors would you like to read in October 2015?

Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox

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Watch the Lady by Elizabeth Fremantle

9 votes, 13.0%

My Lady of Cleves: A Novel of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes

9 votes, 13.0%

Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom

9 votes, 13.0%

Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence

6 votes, 8.7%

Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York by Samantha Wilcoxson

5 votes, 7.2%

The Queen's Governess by Karen Harper

4 votes, 5.8%

The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History by Elizabeth Norton

4 votes, 5.8%

Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey by Adrienne Dillard

3 votes, 4.3%

Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney

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The King's Daughter by Barbara Kyle

2 votes, 2.9%

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