Tombland Audiobook (Free)
- Steven Crossley
- 37 h 45 min
- Pan Macmillan
- 2018-10-18
Summary:
Tudor Britain is brought vividly alive in Tombland, the seventh novel in C. J. Sansom’s number one bestselling Shardlake series.
Summer, 1549. 2 yrs after the death of Henry VIII, Britain is sliding into chaos .
The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years of age. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, guidelines as Protector. The devastation of the older religion by radical Protestants is normally stirring discontent among the populace while the Protector’s prolonged battle with Scotland is certainly showing a about Tombland disastrous failing and threatens to involve France. Worst of most, the economy is within collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry.
Since the old King’s death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as an attorney in the service of Henry’s younger daughter, the girl Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of Edith Boleyn, the wife of John Boleyn – a distant Norfolk connection of Elizabeth’s mom – that could have political implications for Elizabeth, provides Shardlake and his assistant Nicholas Overton to the summertime assizes at Norwich. There these are reunited with Shardlake’s former assistant Jack port Barak. The three find layers of mystery and danger encircling Edith’s death, as another murder is committed.
And East Anglia explodes, as peasant rebellion breaks out across the country. The yeoman Robert Kett qualified prospects a drive of hundreds in overthrowing the landlords and building a vast camp outside Norwich. Soon the rebels took over the town.
Barak throws in his lot using the rebels; Nicholas, against them, becomes a prisoner in Norwich Castle; while Shardlake has to decide where his ultimate loyalties lay, as government makes in London prepare to march north and destroy the rebels. In the meantime he discovers the fact that murder of Edith Boleyn may have connections reaching into both the heart from the rebel camp and of the Norfolk gentry . . .
Includes an Historical Article from the author on Reimagining Kett’s Rebellion.
The prior books in the bestselling historical crime series are Dissolution, Dark Open fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone and Lamentation.
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