It’s November, and that means it’s time for a new Author of the Month. This month we are celebrating the late, Hilary Mantel.
Hilary Mantel was an award winning author who won several literary accolades in her lifetime. She was the first female author to win The Booker Prize twice. The Wolf Hall trilogy has sold more than 5 million copies and has been translated into 41 different languages.
Find Mantel’s collection of novels on our catalogue.
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
Stimulating, interesting. Very well researched and very readable. Looking forward to the sequel! Interesting insight into Tudor life. Thomas More an interesting character – not very attractive and very stubborn. A different approach from the usual laudatory books.
Star rating: ****
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