Books like Shardlake series collection c. j. Sansom 6 books set (Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation)

This is a wonderful series, if a bit hard to get into. The narrator is a lawyer, so there's less glamour and romance than usually found in books set during the reign of Henry VIII, and more real life. Beggars in the street, brutal assaults, a rigid class system, and just plain evil done by men because they have rank and wealth so they can get away with it. Life was hard. Henry was hateful and spiteful and must have had a core of steel to survive so long, so fat!Sansom brings this world to life, and takes you into it to ride with Matthew Shardlake, lawyer with a hunched back, on his journeys. I am a bigger fan of the Plantagenets than the Tudors, but I these books are great.