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Free download or read online Dominion pdf ePUB book. The first edition of the novel was published in October 25th , and was written by C.

The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in ebook format. The main characters of this historical, historical fiction story are ,. The book has been awarded with Sidewise Award for Long Form , and many others.

Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. It's a terrible trap - but the dreadful excessive adverbiage slashes hard at the throat of this book from prolific writer CJ Sansom, draining the lifeblood out of a novel with a fascinating "alternate history" premise.

Counter-factuals are all the rage these days, even creeping into genuine historical accounts: I recently read a factual book on t "Adverbs can kill a novel", David said quietly. Counter-factuals are all the rage these days, even creeping into genuine historical accounts: I recently read a factual book on the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis where he slipped a limited Nuclear attack by the USA on North Korea in into the start of one chapter, only to tell the reader two pages later that it had been a "what if".

That one annoyed me I was even stupid enough to search on the internet - before reaching Gaddis' "reveal" - to check whether such an attack had in fact taken place but Sansom's seems at first to be more intriguing: in the opening pages we learn that in May , it is not Churchill who becomes Prime Minister; it's Halifax, an appeaser who comes to terms with the Nazis.

That is the back story; the front story contains a spy narrative weaved around nuclear secrets, a Resistance love story and an internecine feud within the ruling Nazi-friendly British Government. There is no doubt that Sansom has done his research as a voluminous "Autobiographical note" containing all the books which have influenced the final novel shows. As a result there are plenty of moments when the setting is made believable - the details are well rendered.

But it is the writing that lets the book down. Historical backfill is forced into dialogue through unlikely questions; authorial interventions pop into descriptions like a director peeping round the edge of a stage curtain saying "And now Ophelia is feeling sad and is going to drown herself" Perhaps this is an inevitable consequence of having to fill in the counter-factual historical gaps over such a huge period as 12 years.

But the adverbs??? Not so forgiveable. I can only think that, after all the research, the actual writing of this novel was rushed - which is a great pity. It is a tremendous achievement at pages, and it may be that the reference to Sansom's bone marrow cancer in the note at the end of the book did indeed lead to a sense of urgency in the writing. But, having read Sansom's earlier brilliant "Winter in Madrid" as well as one of his renowned Shardlake books I expected a better book - more gripping, more taut, more thrilling, and certainly better written.

One more gripe: the last 18 pages of the book are taken up with a historical note, which seeks to explain his counter-factual view. For fourteen pages, he does this relatively well - but the final four pages are somewhat bizarrely taken up with a diatribe against the SNP and dismissing even the possibility that an independent future for Scotland could be anything other than a deeply retrograde step.

In a novel which imagines a Nazi-dominated Britain in , it is quite clear that Sansom is positing that Scotland's future might be dark and twisted. This seems to me ridiculously negative and a facile interpretation of national identity in general. This all seemed unnecessary.

In summary, this is a book that frustrated me. It's well-conceived and enjoyable enough, but for me - and I accept this is personal preference - it fell down in a number of areas.

Final analysis: if you like counter-factuals, you'll love "Dominion". I have a theory about this book. I think CJ Sansom wrote it a long time ago. It may even have been his first attempt at a novel. If so, I imagine it was rejected many times over for the perceived faults that I'll go into here and other reviewers have commented on. Then, when the counterfactual 'genre' became popular, the author or his agent decided it would be a good idea to dust Dominion off, give it a quick read through and get it published on the back of his now-established reputation.

How e I have a theory about this book. How else can we explain the clunky over-expositionary dialogue, the repetitions of character traits, the over-use of adverbs and the re-descriptions of events?

All of these 'faults' are typical of a newbie at the creative writing class. We don't expect them from a writer with six novels under his belt. Admittedly, the author has to deal with connecting the wires of his version of the world to that which existed in There are a lot of links to be made and they have to be explained somehow but this leads to some very bizarre conversations where one character is giving another a details of the past that the recipient would already know.

On the plus side I was able to suspend disbelief and was interested in the characters enough to hope they 'got away with it'. The tension built in waves but they all came crashing down in a denouement that undermined the whole premise of the plot. Finally, something has to be said about the didactic passages about the dangers of nationalism that the author places at intervals through the book.

In these he tries to persuade the reader that nationalism is a sort of Nazism-lite. This is bizarre enough, but he goes on to state the case that the Scottish National Party in his alternate world is a particularly nasty example of Quisling-style collaboration.

Sansom seems to be quite relaxed about this smearing the current SNP. The other nationalist parties are not given this negative treatment and the three major UK parties have both resistance heroes and collaborators. If the anti SNP bias in the narrative is not strange enough, in a note at the end of the book Sansom goes into a personal diatribe against the party and its introduction of the Scottish Independence referendum and he urges us to support the 'UK Better Together' campaign.

This turned me against the book and its author. It has no place at the end of a novel. Feb 09, Paul E. Morph rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-read-in The bulk of the book takes place in the early s in a Nazi occupied England. I absolutely loved this book. This was my first taste of C. Highly recommended. View all 17 comments. The prologue sets things up nicely with Churchill not becoming Prime Minister and all shit hitting the fan before being introduced to the main characters some 10 years later.

The story is interesting enough but the real interest is the world Sansom weaves in the what if scenario. This is done really well and it never feels like things are glossed over for ease. View all 4 comments. May 23, Sonia Gomes rated it it was ok Recommends it for: The reviews of the book. Shelves: good-but-not-fantastic , world-war-ii , historical. This is Britain has made peace with Germany after the Dunkirk debacle.

Britain is now governed by a crypto-fascist regime headed by Max Aitken and Lord Beaverbrook, the press magnate. Meanwhile, although War in Britain is over, the War between Russia and Germany still continues and there seems to be no sign of it abating. The presence of the Resistance in Britain headed by Churchill is everywhere, for although the Germans do not occupy Britain, the nation is still very much under their sph This is The presence of the Resistance in Britain headed by Churchill is everywhere, for although the Germans do not occupy Britain, the nation is still very much under their sphere of influence, this is evident by the tightening Jewish laws, the roundups of Jews and the ubiquitous presence of armed police.

What is striking though is the fear, the utter fear that everyone is under. The smallest infraction can lead to interminable interrogations, unimaginable torture, imprisonment maybe even death. The Gestapo is everywhere striking fear deep in the hearts of every person in Britain. Who will succeed Hitler? Everyone does their bit to shake off this terrible ordeal of the German occupation. David Fitzgerald works as a Civil servant, smuggles sensitive papers to the Resistance.

Sarah, his wife a pacifist is not allowed to work but volunteers to aid children. Then there is a ring of course of pro-resistance people scattered in the Bureaucracy who regularly spy for the Resistance. There are dormant cells which suddenly turn active when the need arises.

It goes without saying that the Germans have their own people entrenched as Civil Servants. Moles and counter moles abound. Everyone tries to do their bit sometimes with grave danger to their own life. Throw in the geologist Frank Muncaster in this ring of fear and terrible uncertainty. Muncaster a scientist, has a maimed hand, an odd smile and is terribly fearful of everything.

He however, leads a peaceful and decent life entrenched in his lab, likes his nice job and is pretty much happy.

Just when things are going on quite well for Frank, his mother dies and his brother Edgar comes down for her funeral from the United States of America. Edgar, a physicist, brags that he is part of an extremely sensitive project. Edgar seems to be drinking heavily and despite his good job is deeply in need of money.

For some reason an argument ensues between Frank and Edgar, who in a fit of bravado and drink tells Frank about the extremely sensitive project that he is working on, this drives Frank utterly berserk, he pushes Edgar out of a window and goes totally stark raving mad. Everyone hears Frank screaming, repeating over and over, 'the World is coming to an end' all the while trashing his apartment, sadly for Frank his descent into hell has just begun; he is packed off to a lunatic asylum.

His incarceration in the lunatic asylum is just the beginning of his horrors, all of a sudden everyone, just about everyone wants to lay their grubby paws on poor Frank.

Every side risks their lives to get hold of Frank; everyone wants to know, what the Great Big Secret is all about… In a fit of camaraderie, Frank reveals the secret to David who is trying to get Frank off to America with the help of other resistance workers. Now I wonder, it is no secret that the Americans and the Germans were in the race to build an 'extremely powerful weapon' to have an edge over the other side, victory would then be assured for the side in possession of the 'most powerful weapon'.

The British were aware too, they had intercepted a lot of documents that had something to do with obtaining raw material for the 'extremely powerful weapon' from Canada. Surely, Edgar, the brother could not have revealed much of the process to Frank during a drunken brawl. To risk men and material to kidnap a sad geologist in the throes of a nervous breakdown so as to obtain a Dreadful Secret leaves me wondering and gasping I have read about Fascism, comparisons of it to different forms of Fascism in Europe.

To the amazing reviewers who taught me such a great deal, Thank you. Thought-provoking, highly atmospheric, novel. Also, wonderful end papers - maps of Europe and of the world in this fictional Jan 02, Clemens Schoonderwoert rated it really liked it. This tale is set in , and Germany controlling events in London and the rest of Britain. Everything is under supreme control, with the likes of the press, radio and tv, streets are patrolled by violent police, and all this and ever greater constraints the British will have to endure.

But resistance is growing, with Winston Churchill's Organization at the heart of it, but also an incarcerated scientis Read this book in , and its a standalone book about London after losing WWII to the Germans. But resistance is growing, with Winston Churchill's Organization at the heart of it, but also an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, will play a very important part towards freedom, for he knows a secret that could change the balance of world struggle for ever.

To release this Frank Muncaster, Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secret spy for the Resistance, is sent to Birmingham in an attempt to rescue him and get him out of the country. What is to follow is a very thrilling kind of historical adventure, and that is brought to us by the author in a very entertaining fashion.

Very much recommended, for this is a splendid alternate story, and that's why I like to call this captivating book: "A Very Exciting Dominion"! Jun 13, Andy rated it liked it Shelves: shortlist , shortlist , shortlist , trl , crime-spy-politics , alternate-history. Instead of fighting on alone, Britain too accepts an armistice with Germany, falling under her sphere of influence with the Isle of Wight annexed to the German Army.

This is the premise that what is too follow is based on. A teaser of life in an alternate shows us the rise of Moseley to Home secretary, the Germans jostling for power as Hitler ails, Prime Minister Quisling of Norway, Fanny Craddock teaching viewers to make Sauerkraut Dominion is a slow burning spy novel with an alternate history twist. Clocking in at just under pages the perfect paperback edition , the book requires patience as a steady stream of characters complete with lengthy backstories are introduced along with multiple plot threads which eventually converge.

Sansom focuses on a small group of resistance fighters and their plight to keep a world changing secret safe from their oppressors.

View 1 comment. Nov 24, Penelope Irving rated it it was ok. This book was a bit - well, miserable. In many ways it was well-written enough, in other ways some things annoyed me. But the fact is, I just didn't really enjoy it very much. I found I had to force myself to plough on to the end, and if I hadn't been listening to the audio book version, I'm pretty sure I would have put it aside for later about halfway through and not bothered to pick it up again.

The premise intrigued me, which is why I chose it in the first place - it's set in a Britain which This book was a bit - well, miserable. The premise intrigued me, which is why I chose it in the first place - it's set in a Britain which lost the Second World War or which, more accurately, never really fought it.

In the universe of this novel, we made peace with Germany in and the Facist regime has been our ally for the past 15 years or so. The novel is set in the early fifties. Germany reigns supreme in Europe and Britain is under its thumb, though not actually occupied. I respect Sansome as a historically accurate author because of his detailed, vivid, convincing Shardlake series, set in a real-feeling medieval Britain, so I've no doubt that this pseudo-history is all plausible and well-researched.

It just isn't very exciting or colourful, as indeed Britain was not in the real s. And various characters have an unfortunate tendency to info-dump the politics of the setting at each other, in 'as-you-know-my-friend' kind of way. There's also a feeling at some points that they suspect they're in an AU historical novel.

What would the world be like today? Of sorts. But I'm afraid it's not, or at least it wasn't as far as I was concerned, very thrilling. For a start, we have frank and full access to the actions, motivations and intentions of both sides. So the narrative viewpoint is split between the evil baddie Nazi Gestapo commander who is sent to the UK to capture a British scientist with a military secret, a decent British chap who is spying for the Resistance, decent chap's insipid wife, and the scientist with undiagnosed Aspergers and a long-winded boarding school backstory.

The result of this freedom of information policy is that nothing major is a surprise to the reader, and there are many many scenes of characters discussing and pondering the significance of something that the reader already knows. For instance, the spy, David Fitzgerald, has a wife who suspects he is having an affair. We know he isn't. He's a spy. Thus the late nights at the office and unexpected weekends away.

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The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule--the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints. But Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle.

The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.