Melton’s thumpingly good debut novel finds as its focus the massive 1536 uprising against Henry VIII’s dissolving of the monasteries and ransacking of England’s abbeys. Melton shifts the action of his story deftly over the course of 500 pages, focusing now on Henry’s court and Henry’s recent tragedies, including the death of his quasi-royal bastard … Continue reading Captain Cobbler: The Lincolnshire Uprising, 1536