'C. J. Sansom's books are arguably the best Tudor novels going' - The Sunday Times Following
on from Dissolution and Dark Fire Sovereign is the third gripping historical novel in C. J.
Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and
Philippa Gregory. 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. It is followed
by Revelation the fourth book in the series.
