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 Dissolution - C.J. Sansom
 Dissolution - C.J. Sansom ... Shardlake, a lawyer, and his assistant are sent to investigate.Newest Review: ... London is completely different from that of life at the monastery; and this, in itself, is very different to life in the ... more ... small provincial town in which the monastery is located.
Don’t run away with the idea, though that the emphasis is on facts, figures and dates. This is a leisure book – not a text books and it’s always enjoyable and never a chore to read. True, you’ll probably get a little bit more out of it if you are familiar with the key events and characters of the period, but this isn’t essential. It certainly never feels like you’re being given a history lecture (although on some levels you are!). Facts and ideas are carefully and ...more |
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Dissolution - C.J. Sansom: Full of Monk(ey) business (1046 words)
by SWSt - written on 07/03/07 (Very useful, 157 readings)
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In the late 1530s, Thomas Cromwell is overseeing the dissolution of the monasteries in England. As part of this task, lawyer Matthew Shardlarke is despatched to Scarnsea Monastery to oversee its surrender, but quickly becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. As a historian, I don’t normally read historical novels. This is because they can sometimes get “facts” so spectacularly wrong that I find it incredibly irritating – to the point where I no longer care about the story. I was particularly wary of this book, as it concentrates on England in the 1530s – my specialist subject at university and so a period I know a fair bit about. However, I was ...
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