Christopher John Sansom (Christopher John Sansom) is a British writer, author of detective novels about Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer-detective during the time of the English king Henry VIII. Born in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied at the University of Birmingham with a degree in History, then received an additional legal education and worked as a lawyer, after some time he left his job and devoted himself to creating historical detective stories.K. J. Sansom became famous thanks to historical detective stories from the era of Henry VIII (XVI century). The hero of the novels, hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, carries out assignments for Thomas Cromwell, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Queens Catherine Parr and Elizabeth I. He is assisted in his investigations by Mark Poer and Jack Barack.K. J. Sansom also wrote the thriller novel Winter in Madrid, which takes place in Spain in 1940 after the end of the civil war. The novel Dark Fire received the Historical Dagger Award from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain in 2005. And the novels in the series have been repeatedly nominated for prestigious detective world awards. Fantasy in the author's work. The novel “Dominion” is written in the genre of alternative history and is dedicated to events in Great Britain several years after the victory of Nazi Germany and its allies. The novel received the Sidewise Award in the category “Best Work of Large Form.” Contents: “Matthew Shardlake”: 1. K. J. Sansom: The Hunchback of Lord Cromwell (Translation: Tatyana Kadachigova, E. Bolshepalova)2. K. J. Sansom: Dark Fire (Translation: Ekaterina Bolshelapova)3. K. J. Sansom: Sovereign (Translation: Ekaterina Bolshelapova)4. K. J. Sansom: The Seventh Bowl (Translation: A. Novikov)5. K. J. Sansom: Stones instead of hearts (Translation: Yuri Sokolov)6. Christopher John Sansom: Lament (Translation: Mikhail Kononov)