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Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall Historical Fiction

Wolf Hall

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Winner of the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the the Orange PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award `Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail 'Our most brilliant English writer'Guardian England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. 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. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
688
Release Date:
2009-10-29
Publication Date:
2009-10-29
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0007353553
ISBN13:
9780007353552
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
125 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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