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England, 1546.King Henry VIII is dying. Meanwhile, his Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle to control the government of Henry’s successor, eight–year–old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry’s sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake’s old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr, and Shardlake is unexpectedly summoned to Whitehall Palace.For the Queen has a secret. She has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King’s attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. When the book inexplicably vanishes, and a single page is found clutched in the hand of a murdered printer, Shardlake must help the desperate Queen.His loyalty will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside the palace, where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be equally dangerous, and the political opportunists, who will follow the wind wherever it blows, more dangerous than either . . .

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A special 10th anniversary edition of the standalone bestseller, Winter in Madrid, by the author of the much-loved Shardlake series, C. J. Sansom.1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe. Britain now stands alone while General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war.Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett: a traumatized veteran of Dunkirk turned reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of old school friend Sandy Forsyth, now a shady Madrid businessman, Harry finds himself involved in a dangerous game – and surrounded by memories.Meanwhile Sandy''s girlfriend, ex-Red Cross nurse Barbara Clare, is engaged in a secret mission of her own – to find her former lover Bernie Piper, a passionate Communist in the International Brigades, who vanished on the bloody battlefields of the Jarama.In a vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom is an intimate and compelling tale which offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding, and the profound impact of impossible choices.

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Co kdyby se v roce 1940 nestal britským premiérem Wisnton Churchill, ale lord Halifax? Británie by rychle uzavřela mír s Hitlerem, odpovídá C. J. Sansom, a v roce 1952 by byla dávno v úplném područí Německa. A právě v roce 1952 začíná román Nadvláda. Pojem "druhá světová válka" neexistuje, místo toho se říká "Dunkirkské tažení" - a německo-sovětská válka se vede daleko na východě na frontě táhnoucí se skoro dva tisíce kilometrů. Z Británie se stal totalitní stát, britský tisk, rozhlas a televize jsou přísně kontrolovány, ulice hlídají násilničtí příslušníci Zvláštních pomocných sborů. Hlavní hrdina románu, vládní úředník David Fitzgerald, pečlivě zatajuje svůj židovský původ, protože britští Židé čelí stále větším omezením. V pozadí se skrývá Winston Churchill, který je vůdcem odboje. A v Briminghamu je v blázinci uvězněn vědec Frank Muncaster a s ním i jeho tajemství, které by mohlo navždy změnit rovnováhu světových sil. Pečlivě prostudované reálie toho, "co by bylo, kdyby", dokreslují věrohodnost napínavých dobrodružství, špionážní zápletky i čtivost napínavě napsaného románu.

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England, 1541.King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission by his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak, whom have reluctantly undertaken a special mission for Archbishop Thomas Cranmer – to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator who is to be returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a York glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York castle but to the royal family itself.And when Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret documents which could threaten the Tudor throne, a chain of events unfolds that will lead Shardlake to face the most terrifying fate of the age . . .This is the third novel in C. J. Sansom's internationally bestselling Shardlake series.

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Píše sa rok 1540. Henrich VIII. je na tróne už tridsaťdva rokov, keď právnik Matthew Shardlake, známy ako „najbystrejší hrbáč anglického súdnictva“, musí neodkladne pomôcť priateľovej mladej neteri, ktorú obvinili z vraždy. Napriek hrozbám týrania a škripca dievča nevysvetliteľne mlčí. Shardlake takmer prehrá jej prípad, no v poslednej chvíli získa odklad – taký, ktorý ho opäť zapletie do intríg Thomasa Cromwella, Henrichovho obávaného generálneho vikára. Výmenou za dva týždne navyše, ktoré dostane na vyriešenie vraždy, prijme Shardlake Cromwellovu úlohu nájsť tajné zásoby Temného ohňa – starovekej zbrane hromadného ničenia. Cromwell, ktorý je v kráľovej nemilosti, odkedy sprostredkoval Henrichovo katastrofálne manželstvo s Annou Klévskou, sa spolieha, že Shardlakov objav mu udrží miesto na dvore hemžiacom sa sprisahaniami. C. J. Sansom vyštudoval históriu na Birminghamskej univerzite, kde neskôr získal aj doktorát. Vystriedal niekoľko zamestnaní a napokon sa rekvalifikoval na právnika. V Sussexe si založil prax a právnickému povolaniu sa venoval, až kým sa nestal spisovateľom na plný úväzok. Román Temný oheň je druhá časť jeho slávnej shardlakovskej ságy.

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At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House.Defiance, though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill''s Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government''s side. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever.Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London''s Great Smog; as David''s wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. And hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men . . .''An absorbing, thoughtful, spy-politico thriller set in the fog-ridden London of 1952 . . . Part adventure, part espionage, all encompassed by terrific atmosphere and a well-argued “it might have been”. – The Times

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From Beachy Head to Brighton, and from Chichester to Rye, Flaming Sussex sees our intrepid trio plunge once again into the dark heart of England‘Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily MailAt about four o’clock on 5th November 1937, Miss Lizzie Walter, a teacher at the King’s Road Primary School in Lewes, said goodbye to her young pupils. The children clattered out into the dark streets, preparing for that night’s revelries – and Miss Lizzie Walter was never seen alive again.Hitler, Mussolini and Pope Paul V are on fire. Fireworks explode and flaming tar barrels are being dragged through the streets. Bonfire Night in Lewes is the closest England comes to Mardis Gras. In their fifth adventure, Morley, Miriam and Sefton find themselves caught up in the celebrations and the chaos.On the morning after the night before, Sefton goes for a swim in Pells Pool, the oldest freshwater lido in England – in the very centre of Lewes – where he discovers a woman’s body. She has drowned. Is it a misadventure or could it be … murder?Join Morley, Miriam and Sefton on another journey into the dark heart of England.

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