Hearts of oak
There was a news item about the Tudor warship The Mary Rose. She sank in 1545 just off the Isle of Wight while engaged against the French. She was a massive ship loaded with heavy guns which could...
View ArticleCall me when you get to heaven…
If you have a favourite artist – writer, painter, poet, musician… whatever the discipline, you want to know all their work. My favourite current writer is C. J. Sansom who has written the masterly...
View ArticleShardlake
I’m so excite… I have just seen that the author C.J. Sansom is publishing Lamentation, the next in his series of novels about Shardlake, the Tudor detective. Actually he is a lawyer but the legal...
View ArticleLamentation
There are few more pleasurable things than to find an author you have not read before, and then find you have just read the first book in a series and there are more to follow! I’m not talking about...
View ArticleTaking another look
This afternoon at our book club we read ‘Dissolution’ by C. J. Sansome. it is set in the reign of Henry VIII at that very troubled time when as the title suggests, the monasteries were being dissolved...
View ArticleNext in the series
As a reader, there are some books which just seem to cry out for a sequel – not because the author has left things dangling, or certain plot lines open, or blatant suggestions of other things which...
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