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  • Booker Prize (2012)
  • Costa Book Award for Novel (2012)
  • Audie Award for Literary Fiction (2013)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2013)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013)
  • Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2013)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2012)
  • Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2012)
  • Costa Book of the Year (2012)
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ISBN: 9780007353583
Authors: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.28
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Description

By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry's actions have forced England into dangerous isolation, and Anne has failed to do what she promised: bear a son to secure the Tudor line. When Henry visits Wolf Hall, Cromwell watches as he falls in love with the silent, plain Jane Seymour. The minister sees what is at stake: not just the king's pleasure, but the safety of the nation. As he eases a way through the sexual politics of the court, its miasma of gossip, he must negotiate a 'truth' that will satisfy Henry and secure his own career. But neither minster nor king will emerge undamaged from the bloody theatre of Anne's final days.In Bring Up the Bodies, sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. This new novel is a speaking picture, an audacious vision of Tudor England that sheds its light on the modern world. It is the work of one of our great writers at the height of her powers. --back cover
 

  • Booker Prize (2012)
  • Costa Book Award for Novel (2012)
  • Audie Award for Literary Fiction (2013)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2013)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013)
  • Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2013)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2012)
  • Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2012)
  • Costa Book of the Year (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.