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Loading... Tombland (The Shardlake Series Book 7) (edition 2019)by C.J. Sansom (Author)
Work InformationTombland by C. J. Sansom
   No current Talk conversations about this book. I enjoyed this but it is a bit too long. A piece of history I did not know about. The mystery does get a bit buried by the history. I got a bit fed up towards the end especially as I knew it was all going to end badly. But Shardlake is always interesting to spend time with. (  ) infjsarah | Mar 13, 2022 |  A huge book in every respect, with over 800 pages of detailed descriptions of the turbulent times in the summer of 1549. Shardlake is asked by Lady Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I) to investigate a murder charge against a Boleyn relative in Norwich. This causes Shardlake to be in Norwich when Kett's rebellion occurs, against the gentry's enclosure of common land. As a result, Shardlake is forced to join the rebels and act as Kett's legal advisor. The battles between the rebels and the Protector's forces are described in graphic detail as is the terrible retribution exacted on the defeated rebels after the battle. (  ) edwardsgt | Jul 30, 2021 | Oh my, this was good! As always, it's a mix of a mystery for Matthew, the larger sweep of English history, social changes, Matthew's personal and spiritual evolution, and the changes in his personal relationships and the lives of his friends. This time it's all well-balanced and all compelling. Matthew starts out investigating a murder but gets caught up in a massive rebellion. This gives a chance to watch in detail as Matthew's, Nicholas's, and Barak's worldviews all get put to the test when they're exposed to lives and experiences far outside their usual scope. It's all well-woven with the social changes that are happening throughout England affecting the mystery, the rebellion, and every character. Fascinating and compelling, hard to put down. But, if this sounds fabulous, start the series from the beginning! You'll miss so much of the character arcs if you start here. ( ) AmphipodGirl | May 23, 2021 | This book is a fictionalised account of the Kett's Rebellion, which took place in 1549 during the rule of Protector Somerset. I am pleased to discover this lost episode of English history. The book proved quite a daunting read, a massive novel I probably would not even have started had we not been in Covid-19 lockdown. Roarer | Feb 13, 2021 | I enjoyed this, although it was long and the plot seemed largely an excuse for the author to write about the rebellion. Nicholas' actions were inconsistent, and again seemed designed to demonstrate the attitudes of the rebels. I hope there will be more in this series, but with less politics and more mystery. ( ) pgchuis | Dec 26, 2020 |
 Shardlake is a superb creation, who gains more substance with each new book; he questions and challenges the political shifts of his age while remaining entirely plausibly shaped by them. . . . Sansom’s real interest here is the peasant rebellions of 1549, the largest popular uprising between the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 and the civil war, of which Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk was the most successful. Shardlake’s [murder] investigation is the central thread of the novel, but its main purpose, in terms of the plot, is to give him a reason to be in Norwich in 1549. The city was the focus of Kett’s rebellion, a large, well-organised insurrection that defeated a royal army and, for a few short weeks, controlled a large slice of Norfolk. This is Sansom’s real subject. Belongs to Series
Summer, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos... the economy is in collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry.Since the old King's death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry's younger daughter, the Lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of Edith Boleyn, the wife of John Boleyn - a distant Norfolk relation of Elizabeth's mother - which could have political implications for Elizabeth, brings Shardlake and his assistant Nicholas Overton to the summer assizes at Norwich. There they are reunited with Shardlake's former assistant Jack Barak. The three find layers of mystery and danger surrounding Edith's death, as a second murder is committed.And then East Anglia explodes, as peasant rebellion breaks out across the country. The yeoman Robert Kett leads a force of thousands in overthrowing the landlords and establishing a vast camp outside Norwich. Soon the rebels have taken over the city, England's second largest.Barak throws in his lot with the rebels; Nicholas, opposed to them, becomes a prisoner in Norwich Castle; while Shardlake has to decide where his ultimate loyalties lie, as government forces in London prepare to march north and destroy the rebels. Meanwhile he discovers that the murder of Edith Boleyn may have connections reaching into both the heart of the rebel camp and of the Norfolk gentry... No library descriptions found. 
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