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Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Hilary Mantel
- 2009
Aug 31, 2010 · 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, including the memoir Giving Up the Ghost , and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa ...
- Hilary Mantel
- $15.49
- Picador
Apr 30, 2009 · Wolf Hall tells the story of King Henry VIII, his dalliance with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Catherine of Aragorn, and his rupture with the Catholic Church. It is told from the point of view of Thomas Cromwell, an up-from-his-bootstraps kind of guy, a protégé of the powerful Cardinal Wolsey who becomes a fixer for the King following Wolsey ...
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Oct 21, 2021 · “Try always,” says the worldly Cardinal Wolsey in “Wolf Hall,” Hilary Mantel’s fictional portrait of Henry VIII’s turbulent court, “to find out what people wear under their clothes.”
- Christopher Benfey
Follow the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief advisor, in this acclaimed series of novels by Man Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel. Explore the Tudor court, the Boleyn family, and the fateful events of the English Reformation in Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror & the Light.
Oct 1, 2020 · Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy – Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light – traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power in Henry VIII's Tudor England.
- Hilary Mantel
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A masterful portrayal of the More- Cromwell conflict, the lively presence of historical characters like Catherine of Aragon, Mary Boleyn and the scandalous setting of the Seymour family home Wolf Hall were all achieved by Mantel’s brilliance.
- Hilary Mantel
