Two pleasures I wanted to share! Recently I discovered the best series of books I've read in a very long time - CJ Sansom's Tudor detective Mathew Shardlake series - Dissolution, Dark FIre, Sovereign, Revelation . They are historically accurate, magnificently drawn, compelling and thoroughly enjoyable with solutions that are sometimes shocking, and with characters that seem to live and breath. Mathew Shardlake is himself a tremendous character, but teaming him with Guy, the Moorish ex-monk... read more
