The series' main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer, then Jack Barak and also Nicholas Overton. Sansom came to prominence with the Shardlake series, his historical mystery series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before leaving the legal profession to become a full-time writer. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor.
Subsequently he was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. Sansom has written about the bullying he suffered there. He was born in Edinburgh and attended George Watson's College in that city, but left the school with no qualifications. Christopher John Sansom (born 1952) is a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series.
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