<p><b>Soon to be a major Disney+ TV series<br><br>'CJ Sansom’s books are arguably the best Tudor novels going' – <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b><i>Lamentation </i>is the sixth breathtaking historical novel in C. J. Sansom’s number one bestselling Shardlake series, perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory.</b><br><br><b>England, 1546. </b>King Henry VIII is dying. Meanwhile, his Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle to control the government of Henry’s successor, eight–year–old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry’s sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake’s old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr, and Shardlake is unexpectedly summoned to Whitehall Palace.<br><br>For the Queen h
