Dear Reader

Welcome to BookCrossing and thanks for being a part of World Book Night 2011, the largest book giveaway in history. 1,000,000 specially printed copies of 25 different books changed hands on March 5th 2011 and began their journey from reader to reader. This book is one of them. World Book Night has joined with BookCrossing to help track these books as they travel. You can be a part of that journey by making a comment in the book's journal here on BookCrossing. Your journal entry can say how you got the book, what you thought of it, your plans for it or whatever else you might like to add.

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This book is being released via BookCrossing on 5 March 2011 as part of the inaugural World Book Night. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with libraries, World Book Day and the BBC, one million books will be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.

Read and release!

Thank you, WBN! I'm delighted to be a Giver for the first World Book Night - and I'm especially pleased to be giving out copies of Dissolution, one of the best books I've read in recent years!
Dissolution is the first of a series of historical mystery novels featuring the Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake. If you enjoy this one, then you can follow his further adventures in Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation and Heartstone!
C J Sansom is an amazing writer who brings the past to life. Through reading this, I now know far more about Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monasteries than I ever understood when I was in school. Because he has a background as a historian, I feel I can trust his research and his detailed knowledge.
But this isn't a history book. It's a thrilling, page-turning mystery which I couldn't put down once I'd started it.
Thanks again, WBN! I'm grateful for this opportunity to give away 48 copies to new readers - they go out with my strongest recommendation!

During the day I'll be offering books to friends and neighbours in the New Scriven area.
They'll be available later at the World Book Night quiz night in Knaresborough Library.

A fascinating historical novel with some excellent characters, historical background which was most revealing about its time and many twists and turns leading to the shocking ending. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to read it and now to pass it on to a friend.

I enjoyed this book very much but it took a while to get into it. A very unexpected ending.

An enjoyable story set in the past at an interesting time of English history. A fascinating 'thriller' with an unusually in triguing main character

An intriguing story set in a difficult period of history which I thoroughly enjoyed . The main character really became fascinating.