CJ Sansom
| Christopher Sansom | |
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| Born | 1952 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Scottish/British and has lived in England most of his life |
| Genre | Historical fiction, crime fiction |
| Notable works | Shardlake series |
| Notable awards | Sidewise Award |
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Christopher John "C.J." Sansom is a Scottish-born writer of historical crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before leaving the legal profession to become a full-time writer. He currently lives in Sussex.
Sansom came to prominence with the Shardlake series, his historical mystery series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century. The series' main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer and then Jack Barak. Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution and Dark Fire, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation and Queen Catherine Parr in Heartstone and Lamentation. Sansom has said that he plans to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I.Dissolution was adapted in 10 episodes for BBC Radio 4 in September 2012, and Revelation in March 2017.
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