Have just launched into the latest of C J Sansom's 'Shardlake' series, 'Lamentation' - just as superb as the other five.
Came across the series by accident when I was given a copy of another of his books 'Winter in Madrid' (Spanish Civil War) - just as excellent.
For anybody vaguely interested the English Reformation, but can't manage the mountains of factual information, the Shardlake books are a must - well researched, unsensational and highly readable, but really need to be read in order if they are to be valuable for passing on the events of the period (they all come with short titles (Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone and Lamentation)
Sansom also wrote 'Dominion' which envisages a Britain which had lost the war at Dunkirk and was surviving under German rule - equally fascinating.
Damn good reads, all of them
Jim Carroll