Yellow and fizzy?are stella too
I enjoyed those too. Compare and contrast the Thomas Cromwells!I'm waiting for someone to dramatise the Shardlake series. Absolutely fabulous books - I love CJ Sansom's writing.
Most of her earlier books are really different from each other. Her early book set in Saudi Arabia, "Eight Months On Ghazza Street" is extremely readable and genuinely unique, as although it is conventionally written it is an extremely unusual subject. I found her huge tome on the French Revolution "A Place Of Greater Safety" a real struggle. It has lingered in the memory though. Haven't read the medium one ("Beyond Black"?) and didn't fancy it.Yellow and fizzy?
I only read one of HM's books - the one about a medium and some weird, malevolent spirit. I didn't enjoy it one bit.
Maybe I should try her again.
I hate the historic present in history documentaries, to the point that I've almost given up watching them (*genuine sobs*) but in fiction I find it can work really well. The characters are in the moment and it can suck you in. I found with "Wolf Hall" the book that I almost believed I could touch the things being described. It was one of those books where, as I got near the end, I started to think "oh no, I soon will have no more of this to read...." .My only gripe about the book is the use of the historic present........I know all the arguments for its use but somehow it still grates when I read it or hear it spoken. It seems to offend my 1960-70's grammar school grammar, if you see what I mean.
Absolutely. Have you heard the R4 adaptations? I've stumbled across one that sounded decent but missed the rest. The books are great and rattle along nicely mixing the court and underbelly of Tudor times.I'm waiting for someone to dramatise the Shardlake series. Absolutely fabulous books - I love CJ Sansom's writing.
There's been at least one on the radio.I'm waiting for someone to dramatise the Shardlake series. Absolutely fabulous books - I love CJ Sansom's writing.