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Lamentation

Author	: C.J. Sansom
Publisher	: Mulholland Books
Release Date	: 2016-02-02
ISBN	: 9780316254977
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Lamentation written by C.J. Sansom and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A triumph both as detective fiction and as a novel ... superior to Hilary Mantel."--The Independent Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. The Catholic party focuses its attack on Henry's sixth wife--and Matthew Shardlake's old mentor--Queen Catherine Parr. The Queen has authored a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King's attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. Although the secret book was kept hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen's private chamber, it has inexplicably vanished. Shardlake's investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London, but leads him and his trusty assistant Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of court politics, a world Shardlake swore never to enter again.

Herejía (Matthew Shardlake 6)

Author	: C.J. Sansom
Publisher	: B DE BOOKS
Release Date	: 2016-06-15
ISBN	: 8490694788
Pages	: 666 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Herejía (Matthew Shardlake 6) written by C.J. Sansom and published by B DE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Número 1 en Reino Unido durante más de ocho semanas. Una novela de intriga en la corte de los Tudor. Verano de 1546. El rey Enrique VIII agoniza lenta y dolorosamente. Sus consejeros, católicos y protestantes, se enzarzan en una lucha por el poder; quien gane, logrará el control del gobierno. Mientras se persigue a los herejes por todo Londres y los protestantes radicales acaban en la hoguera, el grupo católico centra sus ataques en la sexta esposa de Enrique, la reina Catalina Parr. Shardlake entra en acción cuando la acosada y desesperada monarca lo llama a su presencia en el Palacio de Whitehall para que la ayude a recuperar un peligroso manuscrito. La reina ha escrito un libro confesional, Lamentación de una pecadora, tan radicalmente protestante que, de llegar a oídos del rey, podría suponer su caída y la de sus simpatizantes. A pesar de hallarse escondido en un cofre cerrado en los aposentos privados de Catalina, el libro ha desaparecido inexplicablemente. Sólo se ha recuperado una hoja: la que aferraba la mano de un impresor de Londres asesinado. Las investigaciones de Shardlake lo llevan a seguir un rastro que se inicia en las imprentas clandestinas de Londres, pero acaba introduciéndolo, a él y a su fiel ayudante Jack Barak, en el sombrío y laberíntico mundo de la política palaciega. En este crisol de poder y ambición, los amigos protestantes pueden resultar tan amenazadores como los enemigos católicos, y quienes cambian de bando a menudo son los más peligrosos de todos. Reseñas: «Una serie extraordinariamente entretenida. La Historia nunca había parecido tan real.» The New York Times Book Review «Esta novela es la confirmación del talento de Sansom a la hora de combinar una absorbente trama de misterio con un héroe encantador, todo ello respaldado por el profundo conocimiento del período que trata.» The Observer «Apasionante… Sansom se ha convertido en uno de los mejores escritores del momento.» The Spectator «Una clase magistral de intrigas reales.» Kirkus Reviews «Todo funciona a la perfección en cada nueva novela de Sansom protagonizada por Matthew Shardlake.» Publishers Weekly «Esta serie de novelas supone un excelente ejemplo de una imaginación inteligente al servicio de la historia.» The Wall Street Journal «Leí el libro en un fin de semana y solo interrumpí la lectura para dormir. Una lectura imprescindible.» The Globe and Mail

The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama

Author	: Caroline Blyth
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2019-01-24
ISBN	: 0567686469
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama written by Caroline Blyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary criticism, criminology, and studies in film and television to discuss international texts and media spanning the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The volume concludes with an afterword by crime writer and academic, Liam McIvanney. These essays explore both explicit and implicit engagements between biblical texts and crime narratives, analysing the multiple layers of meaning that such engagements can produce – cross-referencing Sherlock Holmes with the murder mystery in the Book of Tobit, observing biblical violence through the eyes of Christian fundamentalists in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost, catching the thread of homily in the serial murders of Se7en, or analysing biblical sexual violence in light of television crime procedurals. The contributors also raise intriguing questions about the significance of the Bible as a religious and cultural text – its association with the culturally pervasive themes of violence, (im)morality, and redemption, and its relevance as a symbol of the (often fraught) location that religion occupies within contemporary secular culture.