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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: 4.2 · 223,795 ratings · 15,694 reviews ·40 distinct works •Similar authors

	Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 55,818 ratings — published 2003 — 94 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) 4.24 avg rating — 29,934 ratings — published 2006 — 66 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 — 29,270 ratings — published 2004 — 75 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 — 24,719 ratings — published 2008 — 65 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 — 20,489 ratings — published 2010 — 56 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 — 17,576 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 3.86 avg rating — 17,611 ratings — published 2006 — 78 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) 4.39 avg rating — 14,128 ratings — published 2018 — 38 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 3.86 avg rating — 13,046 ratings — published 2012 — 13 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 — 343 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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February 2019 Subgenre (Historical) Poll

We ask that you only vote if you are planning on participating in our discussion should your choice win.

WhichHistoricalbook would you like to read inFebruary?

Before We Were YoursbyLisa Wingate

20 votes, 24.1%

A Study in Scarlet WomenbySherry Thomas

18 votes, 21.7%

The Ashes of LondonbyAndrew Taylor

14 votes, 16.9%

DissolutionbyC.J. Sansom

13 votes, 15.7%

The Axeman(in the US) a.k.a.The Axeman's Jazz(in CA, UK & AU) byRay Celestin

9 votes, 10.8%

The Forgotten RoombyKaren White

6 votes, 7.2%

The Funeral BoatbyKate Ellis

2 votes, 2.4%

The Lover's PortraitbyJennifer S. Alderson

1 vote, 1.2%

83 total votes

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