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Revelation (Perfect Paperback)

by C. J. Sansom (Author)
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  • Perfect Paperback: 628 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books (May 2009)
  • ISBN-10: 0330461419
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330461412
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (108 customer reviews)
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253 of 278 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Shardlake back in action - but radical religion is the problem at every turn, 8 April 2008
By Mark Meynell "quaesitor" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Revelation (Shardlake) (Hardcover)
Having thought that Shardlake hung up his detecting laurels after the traumas of the last book (Sovereign), we thought we had seen the last of him. But his reappearance has got hearts racing and excitement levels raised - because Sansom is undoubtedly a great thriller writer - with an incredible eye for historical detail and nuances to boot. What more could you want in an historical novel. As Colin Dexter said in his review of the earlier books, Sansom makes the past feel like the present.

This book drags Shardlake, Barak & Guy into a grizzly world of a religious fanatic serial killer who is driven by a scary misreading of the Book of Revelation. These three are modern heroes - they are our guides in a world that is at one level so alien from ours (with the twists and turns of religious battles affecting the lives of countless mortals, from London butchers caught selling meat during Lent to the priggish hypocrisy of reformist clergy dominating the lives of their parishioners); and yet as Sansom mentions in his afterword, one which bears uncomfortable resonances in to our era, intimidated as it is by the terrorism and implacable hatred of zealots.

I suppose as someone who is a Christian, and who is equally horrified by the lengths people's principles enable them to go, I am disappointed that there are few sympathetic characters in London's religious world. Perhaps that is accurate. Cranmer is the only one who seems really to draw our empathy in this murky world - forced daily, even hourly, to exist in the tension between principle and pragmatism.

But that is not so much a criticism of the book as an observation - because historical novels tend to say more about the era in which they are written than the period they describe. And that is very much the spirit of the age. It doesn't detract from the book, though. It was gripping as ever - and investigates some serious problems and questions - such as the nature of madness, the cruelties of those in power, the absurdities of a monarch's marital whims causing societal earthquakes. But above all - this is all weaved into a great story. And that is what makes Sansom such a satisfying writer. Let's hope Shardlake returns for more! And that they don't go and ruin it by trying to make a TV series of them all, and thus obliterate all the skillful complexities!
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65 of 75 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars History is the new black, 13 Oct 2008
This review is from: Revelation (Shardlake) (Paperback)
Revelation is set at the time and backdrop of when Henry VIII is trying to get Catherine Parr to be his sixth wife. In essence it is a fast paced thriller with a number of intriguing sub-plots that kind of takes a modern day subject of serial killers and murder and transposes it into a sixteenth century / Tudor world. At times the characters seem very modern but this may be intentional in bringing past and present together. I love the current trend of history based novels having just read the very passable Full Story Inside and I am currently halfway through the glorious Azincourt
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103 of 121 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Man's Eternal Folly: the "...corruption of our leaders" Ch 4, 31 Mar 2008
This review is from: Revelation (Shardlake) (Hardcover)
I've only recently discovered the real treasure of being able to immerse oneself in the 16th century world of Matthew Shardlake and what fascinates me about Sansom's magnificent achievement is his evocation of a society which truly senses it is out of control following the destruction of the monasteries during King Henry's reign of greed and terror.
Shardlake and characters like Guy Malton are the beacons of logic and light in a London which still believes in demonic darkness. Yes, this is a cracking character-based murder mystery which could sit comfortably alongside anything written by P.D. James and much of Ruth Rendell but, for me, the real heart of the Sharldlake series (and Revelation certainly doesn't disappoint!) is the writer's ability to dig deep into the dark motives that have always urged men to do what they feel they must in order to gain fulfilment. In relation to the religious fanaticism that pervades Sharlake's time, one is tempted to scoff from our so-called safe position nearly five hundred years on but we know it's not that black and white.
That's a big part of the joy of Sansom's series: we are made aware that life has always been chaotic and that "...our leaders" will always be driven by avarice and self-preservation.
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Having read two of these books, wanted to get the rest of the Shardlake series. Yet to read it but if it's anything like the others, i won't be putting it down. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Revelation by C.J.Sansom
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3.0 out of 5 stars revelation by c j sansom
In the advert on Amazon it did not say this audio book was abridged which made it less enjoyable. Otherwise the production was good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars good book
an enjoyable historical novel in which you rapidly forget the historical setting and puzzle over the mystery. Read more
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