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Christopher John Sansom (9 December 1952 – 27 April 2024) was a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He also wrote the spy novel Winter in Madrid and the alternate history novel Dominion.
Author’s agent said it was an ‘extraordinarily strange coincidence’ that writer died days before release of new Disney+ series ‘Shardlake’
27 April – C. J. Sansom, 71, British novelist (Shardlake series). [182] 28 April Stephen Grimason, 87, Northern Irish journalist and editor of BBC News NI. [183] (death announced on this date) Brian McCardie, 59, Scottish actor (Rob Roy, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Ellie Parker) and writer. [184] 29 April Christian, 80, Scottish singer and ...
– Christopher John Sansom, the historical novelist known as CJ Sansom, died at the age of 71. He was best known for creating the character of Matthew Shardlake, a Tudor lawyer, who was ...
April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71 [26] April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86 [27] April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77 [28] May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84 [29] May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
The series' protagonist 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 [2] and Dark Fire, [3] then archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation, [4] queen Catherine Parr in Heartstone and Lamentation, and lately princess Elizabeth in Tombland.
Sansom is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Allison Sansom (born 1994), Thai model; Ann Sansom, English poet; Art Sansom (1920–1991), American cartoonist; Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838–1907), English medical doctor; C. J. Sansom (1952–2024), British writer; Chip Sansom, American comic strip cartoonist
Dominion is a 2012 alternate history novel by British author C. J. Sansom.It is a political thriller set in the early 1950s against the backdrop of a Britain that has become a satellite state of Nazi Germany. [1]