Book description
A two-ebook edition of Hilary Mantel's bestselling novels: WOLF HALL,
winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009, and BRING UP THE BODIES, winner of
the Man Booker Prize 2012.
WOLF HALL and BRING UP THE BODIES, the first two instalments in Hilary
Mantel's Tudor trilogy, have gathered readers and praise in equal and
enormous measure. They have been credited with elevating historical
fiction to new heights and animating a period of history many thought
too well known to be made fresh.
Through the eyes and ears of Thomas Cromwell, the books' narrative
prism, we are shown Tudor England, the court of King Henry VIII.
Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a
political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate
and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events.
In WOLF HALL we witness Cromwell's rise, beginning as clerk to Cardinal
Wolsey, Henry's chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the
pope refuses to grant. He is soon to become his successor. By 1535, when
the action of BRING UP THE BODIES begins, Cromwell is Chief Minister to
Henry, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry's
second wife. Anne's days, though, are marked. Cromwell watches as the
king falls in love with silent, plain Jane Seymour, sensing what Henry's
affection will mean for his queen, for England, and for himself.
Praise for WOLF HALL:
'Wonderful. As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it
almost non-stop' The Times
'Dizzyingly, dazzingly good' Daily Mail
'Genuinely outstanding' Independent
'So original and disconcerting that it will surely come to be seen as a
paradigm-shifter' Sunday Telegraph
Praise for BRING UP THE BODIES:
'Picks up the body parts where WOLF HALL left off … she's as deft and
verbally adroit as ever' Margaret Atwood, Guardian
'Historical novel? Of course, and probably the best to be published
since WOLF HALL Andrew Motion, The Times
'BRING UP THE BODIES should net its author another Booker Prize' New Statesman
'A magnificent encore from first page to last' Mail on Sunday Hilary
Mantel is the author of thirteen books , including A PLACE OF GREATER
SAFETY, BEYOND BLACK, and the memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST. 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.
