The Great Smog. London. A dense, choking fog engulfs the city and beneath it, history is re-written ...
C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a Ph.D. in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. He is the bestselling author of the acclaimed "Shardlake" series, and the Spanish Civil War thriller 'Winter in Madrid'. C.J. Sansom died in April 2024.
C. J. Sansom takes a break from his Shardlake series to offer
Dominion, an absorbing, thoughtful, spy-politico thriller set in
the fog-ridden London of 1952 . . . Part adventure, part espionage,
all encompassed by terrific atmosphere and a well-argued “it might
have been”.
*The Times*
An intriguing thriller set in an alternative Britain under the
Nazis cunningly reanimates the post-war years as they might have
been . . . The tale he sets within his parallel universe is at once
exciting, sophisticated and moving. There will be few better
historical novels published this year.
*Sunday Times*
‘This is a big novel with traces of a thriller, in which the good
are good and the bad are very bad indeed . . . For readers who
enjoy a grown-up adventure story Dominion is evocative, alarming
and richly satisfying’ Daily Express
Masterly . . . sketched with hallucinatory clarity . . . Sansom,
whose Tudor mysteries showed his feeling for the plight of good
people in a brutal, treacherous society, builds his nightmare
Britain from the sooty bricks of truth . . . Dominion shows us what
a truly broken Britain would look, and feel, like.
*Independent*
‘A thriller which is also, and perhaps primarily, a work of
alternative or counter-factual history, set in 1952 . . . in the
manner of Robert Harris’s Fatherland. There are fine things
a-plenty here, and the plot unfolds compellingly and gallops along
briskly. C. J. Sansom has brought off a nice double, writing a good
thriller which invites you to ponder the different course history
might have taken’ Allan Massie, Scotsman
C. J. Sansom is fascinated by the abuse of power, so it's not
surprising that, hot on the heels of his splendid Shardlake series,
comes a novel set in a post-war Britain dominated by Nazi ideology
. . . Dominion is absorbing, mordant and written with a passionate
persuasiveness . . . Bravo!
*Independent on Sunday*
One of the thrills of Dominion is to see a writer whose previous
talent has been for the captivating dramatisation of real history
creating an invented mid-20th century Britain that has the
intricate detail and delineation of JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth . .
. A tremendous novel that shakes historical preconceptions while
also sending shivers down the spine.
*Guardian*
The chase is exciting and the action thrilling, but the really
absorbing part of this excellent book is the detailed creation of a
society that could so easily have existed.
*Literary Review*
Fans of Robert Harris will love this.
*Mail on Sunday*
Dominion is terrific. And no, this isn't one of those
publisher-sponsored blurbs. I just fell in love with it. Nice and
long, too.
*Stephen King*
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