The Shardlake series is a series of historical crime novels set in the 16th century. The last one, Lamentation, was published in 2015 and I have waited for three long years for Tombland, the latest offering. There have been seven books in total, starting in 2003 with Dissolution (which was set against the backdrop of the dissolution of the monasteries funnily enough!). If you’re in the market for that type of realistic historical fiction, I can totally recommend the Shardlake series by C.J.
But what about some historical fiction that shows the true, gritty (and often just disgustingly filthy) life that thousands of ordinary people lived? In the historical fiction section at your local bookshop, you can’t move for novels about the Tudor Court, complete with glamorous masques a-plenty and more jousts than you can shake a stick at. (This is a guest post by Claire Miles of The Hisdoryan.
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