C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. Sansom is the bestselling author of the acclaimed Shardlake series, the Spanish Civil War thriller Winter in Madrid and the lauded alternative history novel Dominion. C.J. Sansom died in April 2024.
Sansom’s meticulous attention to historical detail and vivid
characters make this Tudor mystery as gripping and vital as any
modern thriller
*The Times*
The fourth in C. J. Sansom’s superb Tudor detective series . . . As
with the previous books, Samson’s narrative is highly visual and
Revelation will clearly make a white-knuckle film . . . don’t
expect to put the book down until you’ve seen it through to the
apocalyptic finale
*Observer*
Sansom’s deeply resonant novel depicts Tudor London as a benighted
city overrun by fundamentalist fanatics, heretic-burners and the
madness of crowds, while his narrative’s tingling intrigues will
have you hooked from first page to last
*Sunday Times*
Historical mysteries are all the rage, but Sansom’s are in a class
of their own. His sheer narrative skill is matchless
*Mail on Sunday*
This ambitious panorama of a book, the fourth in Sansom’s series
set in not-so-merrie Tudor England, more than lives up to the
promise of the previous three . . . With wonderful scene-setting .
. . plus some deft plotting, Revelation is an absorbing and
thought-provoking window on the Tudor world
*Guardian*
Terror stalks Tudor London in this latest pungently atmospheric
novel from the master of the historical murder mystery
*Sunday Times Culture*
Sansom’s powerful and seductive historicism militates against the
particular and the personal, or, indeed, the naturalistic. His
vivid Tudor London is larger than life, just as we fondly imagine
it to be: dangerous, dirty, noisy, picturesque and, above all,
different
*TLS*
C. J. Sansom’s novels, set amid the stench and scandal of the
sixteenth century, are impressive both for their intricate detail
and serpentine plot twists
*Independent's 'Books of the Year’*
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