Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

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Now a major TV series

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction
Simply exceptionalI envy anyone who hasnt yet read it Daily Mail

A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror Independent on Sunday
Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chief minister. With Henry captivated by plain Jane Seymour and rumours of Anne Boleyns faithlessness whispered by all, Cromwell knows what he must do to secure his position. But the bloody theatre of the queens final days will leave no one unscathed

Heralded as the greatest English novels of this century, the Wolf Hall trilogy has won two Booker Prizes and been adapted into hugely successful stage plays. The first two books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, were transformed into a BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning BBC television series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. The cast will return in the long-awaited concluding series, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light.

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This is a bloody story about the death of Anne Boleyn, but Hilary Mantel is a writer who thinks through the blood. She uses her power of prose to create moral ambiguity and the real uncertainty of political life She has recast the most essential period of our modern English history; we have the greatest modern English prose writer reviving possibly one of the best known pieces of English history Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012

Simply exceptional I envy anyone who hasnt yet read it Sandra Parsons, Daily Mail

In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIIIs right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read. A staggering achievement Sarah Crompton, Sunday Telegraph

Succeeds brilliantly in every particle its an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives Spectator

Wolf Hall was a tour de force, but its sequel is leaner, more brilliant, more shocking than its predecessor Erica Wagner, The Times

Picks up the body parts where Wolf Hall left off literary invention does not fail her: she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever Margaret Atwood, Guardian

Mantel in the voice of Cromwell is inspired. When she is in full flow as a novelist, creating scenes and inventing dialogue, she is more convincing than rendering a recorded scene from history Philippa Gregory, Sunday Express

Dont think you can start this book whenever you feel like it plan ahead, as, once started, its impossible to escape its grip, and until its finished, you wont get any sleep Country Life

Author Bio

Hilary Mantel is the author of fourteen books, including A Place Of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up The Ghost, and the short-story collection The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher. Her two most recent novels, Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up The Bodies, have both been awarded the Man Booker Prize - an unprecedented achievement.