--- product_id: 208563401 title: "Tombland (The Shardlake Series, 7)" price: "1011328₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/208563401-tombland-the-shardlake-series-7 store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # Tombland (The Shardlake Series, 7) **Price:** 1011328₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Tombland (The Shardlake Series, 7) - **How much does it cost?** 1011328₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/208563401-tombland-the-shardlake-series-7) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description During the political upheaval of Tudor-era England, the lawyer Matthew Shardlake must decide where his loyalties lie in the latest book in the Shardlake series, now an original streaming series on Hulu. LONGLISTED FOR THE SIR WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos. The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle, Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Edward's regent and Protector. In the kingdom, radical Protestants are driving the old religion into extinction, while the Protector's prolonged war with Scotland has led to hyperinflation and economic collapse. Rebellion is stirring among the peasantry. Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry's younger daughter, the lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of one of Elizabeth's distant relations, rumored to be politically murdered, draws Shardlake and his companion Nicholas to the lady's summer estate, where a second murder is committed. As the kingdom explodes into rebellion, Nicholas is imprisoned for his loyalty, and Shardlake must decide where his loyalties lie -- with his kingdom, or with his lady? Review: 10, 100. Stars! He is just one of the best writers around. - What I loved about this particular iteration in the series. The thing I loved the best Was the atmospheric conditions he manages to portray here. The times were so incredibly challenging...and difficult, and horrific in so many ways. The known world was in such a state for most of the population every day as it is today. This book reminded me so much of what is happening this very moment in our known world...plague, war, refugees, hatred, intolerance...yet filled with Good,and Great , people where you least expect to find them. The waiting for insanity to play itself out...the hope that justice WILL. win out when it appears that justice may no longer exist . To look for things to work takes so much patience and time...the way he writes is truly a you (and me) are there on the heath, in the lean to. In the mud, in the heat, in the dry, in the outdoors with all those gathered together to work toward and hope for a better life, fair treatment, equality, tolerance and justice. We wait still for that now, hundreds of years later. The repetition in the book seemed tedious and annoying ...at first...then I began to understand...the feeling is real. The tedium is real. The waiting is real. The anticipation, the Fear, the nervousness, the Hope is Real. The feeling he evokes is real. This writing is impeccable...as it is in alk his books. The tension builds. The atmosphere engenders life when huge change Might be possible. We all wait and wait and wait .hoping for this very thing...justice and fairness for alk. For four years in the U.S. it felt like all hope was gone..just...Gone. Now the hope is showing some sparks again and as in this book.. With all the horror and devastation that kept happening then.. And Now...will someday abate or end. Shard lake is a flawed and compelling character. As all his fully three dimensional characters do...this writer makes us feel like we know them. That we forgive them their faults and want them to forgive us ours and love us anyway! I love all the books in the series and will stick with this author as long as he writes and read his other books as well.I highly recommend this series to anyone with a true interest in history, mystery, suspense, some romance, fully developed characters, pathos, joy, satisfaction and a need for more. What a great experience, well worth the time.... Review: A Mystery with Substance - This series keeps getting better. Sansom writes a gripping story that is well researched. With TOMBLAND, the author sets a high standard for a historical mystery, for that matter, for any type of historical novel. I think this is a wonderfully well-written mystery where the historical period is not simply background to a plot that could be set any time. The mystery has a number of characters who could have done it. The characters, major and secondary, partake in and are affected by the historical events and people. Instead of a plot that focuses on the upper class, the plot involves the lower classes with emphasis on the everyday lives of the common people. Sansom immerses the reader into Tudor England of 1549 with details of the period and a vividness of how the classes lived and clashed. I enjoyed how the story shifts the mystery from center stage to background as Kett's Rebellion takes over, then back again to complete the story. An interesting conflict in this story is the gentleman class versus the commoners. Through the characters of Shardlake and his assistant, Nicholas, this conflict is examined. Nicholas is a landless person raised with the viewpoint of the gentlemen or wealthy class. His interactions with the commoners and their suffering gives the reader insight to the class conflict. Shardlake, the main character, is also a member of the upper class, and the difference between the two characters in their dealings with the commoners sharpens the examination of the class divisions, including within one's class. Policies & practices of the governing class have consequences, and these consequences are at the heart of this book. This is one of the few novels that I have read that comes with a bibliography. The author's "Historical Essay" and "Bibliography" at the end of the story are highly recommended. I think the "Historical Essay" can be read before or after reading the book. I read it after completing the story, and I think I might have benefited by reading it first. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #262,812 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #772 in Historical Thrillers (Books) #1,313 in Historical Mystery #1,405 in Espionage Thrillers (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 18,472 Reviews | ## Images ![Tombland (The Shardlake Series, 7) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91MqbCBFViL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 10, 100. Stars! He is just one of the best writers around. *by P***M on January 1, 2022* What I loved about this particular iteration in the series. The thing I loved the best Was the atmospheric conditions he manages to portray here. The times were so incredibly challenging...and difficult, and horrific in so many ways. The known world was in such a state for most of the population every day as it is today. This book reminded me so much of what is happening this very moment in our known world...plague, war, refugees, hatred, intolerance...yet filled with Good,and Great , people where you least expect to find them. The waiting for insanity to play itself out...the hope that justice WILL. win out when it appears that justice may no longer exist . To look for things to work takes so much patience and time...the way he writes is truly a you (and me) are there on the heath, in the lean to. In the mud, in the heat, in the dry, in the outdoors with all those gathered together to work toward and hope for a better life, fair treatment, equality, tolerance and justice. We wait still for that now, hundreds of years later. The repetition in the book seemed tedious and annoying ...at first...then I began to understand...the feeling is real. The tedium is real. The waiting is real. The anticipation, the Fear, the nervousness, the Hope is Real. The feeling he evokes is real. This writing is impeccable...as it is in alk his books. The tension builds. The atmosphere engenders life when huge change Might be possible. We all wait and wait and wait .hoping for this very thing...justice and fairness for alk. For four years in the U.S. it felt like all hope was gone..just...Gone. Now the hope is showing some sparks again and as in this book.. With all the horror and devastation that kept happening then.. And Now...will someday abate or end. Shard lake is a flawed and compelling character. As all his fully three dimensional characters do...this writer makes us feel like we know them. That we forgive them their faults and want them to forgive us ours and love us anyway! I love all the books in the series and will stick with this author as long as he writes and read his other books as well.I highly recommend this series to anyone with a true interest in history, mystery, suspense, some romance, fully developed characters, pathos, joy, satisfaction and a need for more. What a great experience, well worth the time.... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Mystery with Substance *by J***S on April 22, 2019* This series keeps getting better. Sansom writes a gripping story that is well researched. With TOMBLAND, the author sets a high standard for a historical mystery, for that matter, for any type of historical novel. I think this is a wonderfully well-written mystery where the historical period is not simply background to a plot that could be set any time. The mystery has a number of characters who could have done it. The characters, major and secondary, partake in and are affected by the historical events and people. Instead of a plot that focuses on the upper class, the plot involves the lower classes with emphasis on the everyday lives of the common people. Sansom immerses the reader into Tudor England of 1549 with details of the period and a vividness of how the classes lived and clashed. I enjoyed how the story shifts the mystery from center stage to background as Kett's Rebellion takes over, then back again to complete the story. An interesting conflict in this story is the gentleman class versus the commoners. Through the characters of Shardlake and his assistant, Nicholas, this conflict is examined. Nicholas is a landless person raised with the viewpoint of the gentlemen or wealthy class. His interactions with the commoners and their suffering gives the reader insight to the class conflict. Shardlake, the main character, is also a member of the upper class, and the difference between the two characters in their dealings with the commoners sharpens the examination of the class divisions, including within one's class. Policies & practices of the governing class have consequences, and these consequences are at the heart of this book. This is one of the few novels that I have read that comes with a bibliography. The author's "Historical Essay" and "Bibliography" at the end of the story are highly recommended. I think the "Historical Essay" can be read before or after reading the book. I read it after completing the story, and I think I might have benefited by reading it first. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not quite up to snuff *by J***T on March 13, 2019* I have read the five previous novels in the Shardlake series, and found each one informative, fun, and never neglectful of a decent mystery. This sixth addition to the series is not quite as good as the first five. It demonstrates Sansom's firm grasp of history, and in this case illumines a nearly forgotten piece of English memory, namely a broadly-based series of peasant revolts that occurred in the middle of the 16th century. The quite lengthy end historical note will flesh that history out in exquisite detail, or in painful detail, depending on your appetite for history! Those who have written about the period have said that the main driver of the revolts was the introduction of Cranmer's English prayer book, but Sansom has decidedly different notions about that. Frankly, I found the novelistic recreation of these events rather too much of a good thing. The middle of the novel, typically long on Sansom's manner, dragged for me a bit; a found the time on the hills above the city nearly as exhausting as those who were actually there surely found it. That said, I welcome the character of Shardlake, ever interesting, ever inventive, ever subtly maneuvering his way through the Tudor world as he must do. I recommend Tombland to all lovers of Shardlake and his Tudor contexts. ## Frequently Bought Together - Tombland (The Shardlake Series, 7) - Lamentation: A Shardlake Novel (The Shardlake Series, 6) - Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/208563401-tombland-the-shardlake-series-7](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/208563401-tombland-the-shardlake-series-7) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-06-03*