Lamentation :: C. J. Sansom soon to be presented for sale on the fabulous BookLovers of Bath web site!
London: Mantle, 2014, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Contains: Maps to the endpapers and blanks; Ribbon marker;
From the cover: King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henrys successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henrys sixth wife, Matthew Shardlakes old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr.
Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is …
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Mauve boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [X] 641 pages. 9½” x 6¼”.
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