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“This, I thought, was how the real power-play went: conversations in corners and gardens, nods, shrugs, inclinations of the head. But nothing in writing.”

Lamentation: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom

July 19, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

It’s been a year since Heartstone, and Matthew Shardlake’s life is going reasonably well. He has a new steward, a new Law clerk, and Jack and Tamasin are soon to welcome their second child. True, he hasn’t seen Queen Katherine Parr in that time, the religious needle has swung slightly more to the “punishing Protestants” side meaning he’s going to have to burn some of his favorite books, and he has to represent Lincoln’s Court at the burning of Anne Askew for heresy, but that’s […]

Filed Under: History, Mystery Tagged With: #HenryVIII, C.J. Sansom, Lawyers, the Tudor Court

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:91 · Genres: History, Mystery · Tags: #HenryVIII, C.J. Sansom, Lawyers, the Tudor Court ·
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Cousins War Series Book 6

December 31, 2015 by Walking Widdershins Leave a Comment

So there’s Margaret – she’s a Plantagenet, she’s Henry VII’s cousin, and he’s got her packed away in the country so that people don’t get any ideas about her royal lineage. She’s married to Sir Reginald Pole, just kind of chilling in the countryside. Until she becomes guardian of Henry’s son Arthur and his new wife Katherine of Aragon. She becomes attached to the young couple, and her heart is broken when (spoiler alert), Henry dies. She remains as close as she can to Katherine, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: #HenryVIII, #history, CBR7

Walking Widdershins's CBR7 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: #HenryVIII, #history, CBR7 ·
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