Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize 2009Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both winners of The Man Booker Prize, in 2009 and 2012 respectively, are the first two instalments in Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy. They 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.
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Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies
Dedication
Contents
Cast of Characters
Family Trees
Epigraph
I Across the Narrow Sea Putney, 1500
II Paternity 1527
III At Austin Friars 1527
I Visitation 1529
II An Occult History of Britain 1521–1529
III Make or Mar All Hallows 1529
I Three-Card Trick Winter 1529–Spring 1530
II Entirely Beloved Cromwell Spring–December 1530
III The Dead Complain of Their Burial Christmastide 1530
I Arrange Your Face 1531
II ‘Alas, What Shall I Do For Love?’ Spring 1532
III Early Mass November 1532
I Anna Regina 1533
II Devil’s Spit Autumn and winter 1533
III A Painter’s Eye 1534
I Supremacy 1534
II The Map of Christendom 1534–1535
III To Wolf Hall July 1535
AUTHOR’S NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dedication
Contents
Cast of Characters
Family Trees
Epigraph
I Falcons Wiltshire, September 1535
II Crows London and Kimbolton, Autumn 1535
III Angels Stepney and Greenwich, Christmas 1535–New Year 1536
I The Black Book London, January–April 1536
II Master of Phantoms London, April–May 1536
III Spoils London, Summer 1536
Author’s Note
Acknowledgements
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Wolf Hall
Bring Up the Bodies
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‘Oh, for sure. As long as I get the right piece of paper from Rome.’
The party smile and hide their smiles. They give each other knowing looks. Gregory says, why is that funny? You can’t marry your wife’s sister, can you? He and his boy cousins go off into a corner to talk about private subjects – Bet’s boys Christopher and Will, Kat’s boys Richard and Walter – why did they call that child Walter? Did they need a reminder of their father, lurking around after his death, to remind them not to get too happy? The family never meet but he thanks God that Walter’s not with them any more. He tells himself he should have more kindness towards his father, but his kindness extends only to paying for Masses for his soul.
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