Tombland by C.J.Sansom x Foeder Beer (Nelson Sauvin) by The Kernel Brewery
“Was there ever such a year as this?” What would you do if life as you knew it just stopped? If you were forced to remain in one place and all your projects, priorities and politics were turned on their heads? Under the shadow of the ‘Oak of Reformation’, Matthew Shardlake, hunchbacked lawyer to a roll call of the British Tudor court's best characters, finds himself swept away by a peasant uprising. Having been rushed out to Norfolk, C.J.Sansom’s quiet hero is supposed to oversee the murder trial of a family member that could leave Queen-to-be Elizabeth embarrassed. The crux of the crime appears to be about land rights; and land rights in Norfolk, Shardlake finds, are inexorably about human rights. The rich are getting richer by violating laws relating to common lands, passing on their taxes to their tenants and capitalising production work for themselves. The result is that the poor are getting poorer, unable to graze their livestock, pay their rents or find work...
