![]() ![]() Hilary Mantel was recently awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. It also won the 2012 Costa Book of the Year making Bring Up the Bodies the first book to have been both named as Costa Book of the Year and won the Man Booker Prize in the same year. Her books include Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), Fludd (1989), A Place of Greater Safety (1992), A Change of Climate (1994), Beyond Black (2005), and Wolf Hall (2009), winner of the Man Booker Prize.īring up the Bodies won the 2012 Man Booker Prize, making Hilary the only UK author ever to have won it twice. She worked as a social worker before going to live in Botswana for five years and Saudi Arabia for four before returning to Britain in the mid-1980s. Hilary Mantel CBE was born in Derbyshire in 1952 and studied Law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University. ![]() But neither minister nor king will emerge undamaged from the bloody theatre of Anne’s final days. ![]() As Henry develops a dangerous attraction to Wolf Hall’s Jane Seymour, Thomas must negotiate a ‘truth’ that will satisfy Henry and secure his own career. Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall, Book 2) Paperback May 7, 2013. Anne Boleyn, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church, has failed to do what she promised: bear a son to secure the Tudor line. The year is 1535 and Thomas Cromwell, Chief Minister to Henry VIII, must work both to please the king and keep the nation safe. Hilary Mantel twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. ![]()
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