![]() ![]() The past decade has brought a series of novels, biographies and documentaries, including Hilary Mantel’s two Booker-prizewinners about Thomas Cromwell and four seasons of Showtime’s bodice-ripping drama The Tudors.Īlongside all these, CJ Sansom’s Henrician crime series, featuring his hunchbacked lawyer-turned-detective Matthew Shardlake, has been quietly gaining critical acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, such that sales now stand at some 3m copies. P erhaps it’s the obvious parallels with our own age and its propaganda, power struggles and religious divisions, but our obsession with the political and sexual intrigues of the Tudor court shows no sign of abating. ![]()
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