#shardlake books

[agir1ukn0w]

sometimes a found family is just a disabled lawyer, a Jewish henchman/manwhore turned sidekick turned paralegal turned malewife, a Black apothecary with all the wisdom and medical knowledge of the Islamic Golden Age, an elderly retired lawyer with cancer from Yorkshire, and a horny Catholic girly girl who domesticates the former manwhore and is also somehow smarter than all of them combined

[kits-ghosts-corner]

I want need everyone who watches the Shardlake TV series to read the books too - not out of snobbery or going "you HAVE to read the source material or else you CAN'T watch the series UGHHH fake fans!!!" I swear it's not that (/g) but because I love the books and guys Matthew is so queer in the books pl please please please read them guys please the books are so fucking good please pl guys please

[kazz-brekker]

people who enjoyed larys strong on this season of house of the dragon should also check out the shardlake books by cj sansom and the tv adaptation. the main character is not an evil adviser (sorry) but he's a disabled lawyer with scoliosis solving murders during the tudor dynasty and there's a lot of similar exploration of historical ableism and having to rely on your mind rather than your body when making your way up in the world. also they actually cast a disabled actor as the main character in the tv show which i appreciate.

[emma-ofnormandy]

Alice took the blanket with her. His blanket. The one from his room. The one post pond. The one they shared. She has it in France with her.

[ourfatherofgirth]

i appreciate when the protagonist of something is a bitchy little guy. like he's on the side of angels but he's going to complain about it the whole time.

[air-mechanical]

Shardlake tv show you won me with Cromwell in bright red and Shardlake in anything over than black lawyer's robes, this colour is excellent. And makes sense for a screen adaptation, because otherwise everyone would be wearing black all the time.

And I'll forgive you the eye-widening decision to give canon unfashionable Shardlake close cropped fashionable hair and an earring (an Earring) so long as you don't fuck up his personality. He'll drag himself all over the country to solve murders and will get the job done and not take shit from anyone, but by god all he wants to do is stay home by his warm cozy fire and read. He's a reluctant nerd lawyer hero who loves his horse and helping poor and powerless people whenever he can.

[hellolittleogre]

Shardlake fandom celebrates 100 fics on AO3!

Come celebrate with us, the Shardlake fandom has recently reached the milestone of 100 stories on AO3!

We are celebrating this with adding more fic! Anything goes, everyone welcome.

You can write any length story, gen or any pairing, fics will be published on October 20th on AO3.

@kits-ghosts-corner @cutebottledspider @neverfaraway-fic @citrusfolk @Mydarkweirdmind @american_apparently_not

@poemsingreenink

[eyes1994]

Shardlake fanfic

Has anyone found some Shardlake fanfiction? I thought Tumblr or AO3 might have some but nothing. Fanfiction the site also has nothing. So if anyone finds fanfiction, please let me know. If I find some, I will update here or make a new post. Edit: Someone told me there is fanfiction of the books but I mean fanfiction of the series. Sorry for not being clear.

[rexxmako]

ohhh goddd. i saw the trailer for shardlake and take me to church has since been playing in my head. because SEAN. AND. UHH. yeAH

[cinemaocd]

Today I offer you Sean Bean as Thomas Cromwell

One does not simply walk into the Tower of London...

[evenaturtleduck]

I sure hope the fourth Matthew Shardlake book is called Vacation and is about how Matthew Shardlake goes on vacation and absolutely nothing bad happens and no one coerces him into anything and no one gets tortured or burned or beheaded. Jack Barak and Tamasin do get wasted on mimosas and try to break into a vending machine though.

[agir1ukn0w]

matthew @ sir richard rich in sovereign:

[kits-ghosts-corner]

right look if we don’t get homoerotic looks between jack and matthew (and cromwell saying “my matthew”) then what was the point of making the tv series in the first place

[kazz-brekker]

enjoyed the first 2 episodes of shardlake a lot, always a fan of a good bottle episode murder mystery and a cool historical setting, and the two lead actors are great

[historyartthings]

the first trailer for book one of CJ Sansom’s ‘shardlake’ series (Dissolution) is out and…

Is it just me or is this marketed as if it’s an action thriller? Down to the editing, the music, the fonts used. Which is frankly bizarre since it’s supposed to be a murder mystery. It’s set almost entirely in a monastery! It’s not a big sprawling epic…

[wherekizzialives]

2024 in books: May

I don’t have any of my normal reviews for you all this month because I have not finished reading any of the new-to-me books I’ve started.  Instead, in the wake of C J Sansom’s death at the end of April, I have been re-reading his wonderful historical crime novels – The Shardlake Series – as a personal memorial to a man I never met but who enriched my reading life significantly.  The books are all…