LEGENDARY author CJ Sansom has died at the age of 71 just before the release of the writer’s huge Dinsey+ show. The writer, famed for creating the character of Matthew Shardlake, died while w…
LEGENDARY author CJ Sansom has died at the age of 71 just before the release of the writer's huge Dinsey+ show.The world-famous book series has inspired a TV show which is set to air on Disney+ from next month starring Arthur Huges as Matthew Shardlake and Sean Bean and Thomas Cromwell.
"His Shardlake books - a long-anticipated adaptation of which starts this week on Disney+ - revolutionised the genre when they started in the mid-2000s." Maria Rejt continued: "He was working on his new Shardlake novel, Ratcliff, when he died but his worsening health made progress painfully slow: his meticulous historical research and his writing were always so important to him.
Sansom's longtime editor and publisher, Maria Rejt said tribute to the writer: "Chris wished from the very start only to be published quietly and without fanfare.
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