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Wolf Hall: With Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.
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Oct 13, 2009 · Wolf Hall. : Hilary Mantel. Henry Holt and Company, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 560 pages. In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country ...
Aug 31, 2010 · Hilary Mantel was a renowned English writer who twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won worldwide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books ...
Sep 7, 2023 · The Thomas Cromwell trilogy, made up of “Wolf Hall” (2009), “Bring Up the Bodies” (2012), and “The Mirror and the Light” (2020), earned Mantel two Booker Prizes, making her the first British writer and the first woman to do so. Tragically, Hilary Mantel passed away on September 22, 2022, at the age of 70 from complications of a ...
The Mirror & The Light is a historical novel by the English writer Hilary Mantel.Following Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012), it is the final instalment in her trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, minister in the court of King Henry VIII, covering the last four years of his life, from 1536 until his death by execution in 1540.
Wolf Hall is a historical novel in which the author has fleshed out historical facts and characters with her imagination—she has imagined their loves and fears, their motivations and conversations. The novel is an imagined history, and Mantel consciously draws attention to this fact by frequently alluding to storytelling, mythology, and the ...
