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Sovereign

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23 October 2014
1259 minutes
9781447291565
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio

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I have enjoyed C. J. Sansom's series of historical novels set in Tudor England progressively more and more. Sovereign, following Dissolution and Dark Fire, is the best so far . . . Sansom has the perfect mixture of novelistic passion and historical detail.
Even if heart-pounding suspense and stomach-tightening tension were all Sansom’s writing brought to the table, few would feel short-changed. Added to these gifts is a superb approximation of the crucible of fear, treachery and mistrust that was Tudor England, and a memorably blood-swollen portrait of the ogreish Henry’s inhumane kingship. A parchment-turner, and a regal one at that.
Not only a great detective novel but also a fabulous insight into the historical happenings of the Tudor period, this book is an absorbing read.
A dazzling conspiracy theory novel of the Tudor age.