Read the first four, got the fifth - spectacklerly well-judged xmas pressie - but not read

it yet. I'd've brought it on this holiday if it weren't a hardback with the heft of a yellerpages.

But, the way he brings the grind and terror of Tudor England to life in the Shardlake books is exactly compatible to the way he makes a poverty-sticken 1950s England under Nazi-collaborating fascist government to life.

Posted By: Arizona Bay, Jul 5, 19:54:28