Dissolution (The Shardlake series, 1)

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Those fans who hope to see Shardlake on screen will have to wait a while longer, however. Dissolution was originally optioned as a film with Kenneth Branagh attached to the project. The BBC later optioned the series and the most recent update is that a television project is still in development, although there is no date set and it is no longer with the BBC. Romanttinen vakoojatarina A review of Finnish translated Winter in Madrid, by Jari Olavi Hiltunen, in Opettaja 21 May 2010 Despite the continuing success of the Shardlake series, he took a break again after the fifth instalment, Heartstone, and in 2012 published a more controversial standalone novel, Dominion, an alternative history thriller which follows events in a Britain that surrendered to Germany in May 1940, the day before Churchill became prime minister in reality. As one character says, “Uncovering complicated truths is never easy.”, and in “Dissolution” Mr. Sansom makes such uncovering an enjoyable experience. I will continue on with reading the series.

Whenever it appears, you can be sure of one thing: it won’t look anything like The Tudors, which Sansom has called “infantile”. The best that can be said of that series, he once remarked drily, is: “Nice costumes – though they’re not in them for very long.” THE SANSOM FILE Sansom captured this era, mood, and volatility perfectly and from the narrative you could get a real sense of how fragile the position was if anyone raised their head too far above the parapet, but there was always an undercurrent of revolt and unrest as Monasteries were torn down and people were forced to defend a different faith.El gallo negro (2003), de C. J. Sansom (1952-) es una novela de intriga histórica al estilo de El nombre de la Rosa, aunque ambientado dos siglos después, en la Inglaterra del reformista (entre muchas otras "habilidades") Enrique VIII. Una época especialmente interesante, llena de conspiraciones, persecuciones, luchas de poder, asesinatos y, por encima de todo eso, el grave conflicto entre católicos y protestantes, con un Cromwell convertido en el ángel exterminador de católicos y especialmente de los “depravados” monjes. Se trata de un El nombre de la Rosa despojado de la erudición de Eco, de sus explicaciones filosófico-religiosas (lo que puede ser un aliciente para algunos), pero también de la exquisita prosa y del mundo interior de los personajes del escritor italiano. Production of “Shardlake” has already begun, with filming taking place in Hungary, Austria and Romania.

This is not Thomas More’s Utopia, a nation of innocent savages waiting only for God’s word to complete their happiness. This is a violent realm, stewed in the corruption of a decadent church.’Though Sansom has said that a novel by definition cannot offer “the accuracy you’d get in an academic article”, the academic historian in him is clearly reluctant to hand over the material entirely; his research for the third Shardlake novel, Sovereign, led to a discovery that he published in an academic paper and he ends every novel with an extensive bibliography and a scrupulous historical note in which he explains exactly how he has interpreted the facts to serve the interests of the story. In Dominion, he used this author’s note to condemn the kind of nationalism he saw as contributing to the Second World war. The climax of the story also disappointed. It will not surprise you to know that the original murder is not the only one in the book, and other crimes appear. When we find out who did what and why, I found one or two of the resolutions hard to believe, and something of an anti-climax.

Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes . . .The historical nature and tone of the story are fabulously written and the attention to detail in dialogue and descriptions provides a wonderful atmosphere to enjoy this historical whodunit. Shardlake is a brilliant central character providing that astonishing logic that makes this novel intriguing and captivating as he delicately investigates the murder at the monastery. He knows only success will placate Cromwell and the dynamics of the political and religious tensions are palpable. However, in the books, Shardlake makes references to how unattractive he is, but in the promo picture for the series, he looks a lot more dashing than he'd appear in the novels. Shardlake cast The author's depiction of Tudor times is second to none. Daily living and all its struggles are injected into this story without becoming info-dumps or narrations of boring detail. Cromwell makes a couple of brief appearances, and he is realistically written, if not as sympathetically as in Mantel's novels. The characters vary considerably in their depth. One or two are really well-drawn; they have real character and personality, and a story of their own. Among them are a doctor and a monk who has been hidden in the monastery for political reasons. Others are less rounded; Shardlake’s assistant, Mark Poer, didn’t work for me from the beginning, and his part in the story continued to be a weakness.

First published on the 25th of October. 2012, this was to be a major standalone novel from C.J. Sansom. Utilizing his ever expansive historical knowledge once more, it this time concerns itself with an alternate telling of the events following the second world war. Establishing a somewhat darker tone to what he had previously, it manages to convey some grander ideas and themes overall. Matthew Shardlake – main character and narrator of the series, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn and later Serjeant-at-law. Initially an adherent to the new Anglican faith, and ever a religious thinker, he was once refused as a candidate for the priesthood due to his infirmity. Sansom also said that he plans to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I. [2] Publishing his first book in 2003 titled ‘Dissolution’, he leaped onto the literary scene with the first in his ‘Matthew Shardlake’ series of novels. Set within the historical mystery genre, he started to gain attention thanks to his keen eye for detail and accuracy. With that he started to gain more prominence within his field as his career began to take off.Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C. J. Sansom, followed by Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone and Lamentation. How difficult to spot villain? - Very difficult--no foreshadowing/clues Time/era of story: - 1600-1899