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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2013.
With her dazzling, utterly absorbing style of writing Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the downfall and destruction of the charismatic Anne Boleyn. This is the sequel to the 2009 Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall the second in what will be a Tudor trilogy. The final book will be called The Mirror & the Light, and will continue Thomas Cromwell's story until his execution in 1540.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012.
Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2012.
Winner of the Specsavers National Book Awards 'UK Author of the Year' 2012.
May 2012 MEGA Book of the Month.
Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of Man Booker Prize 2012 judging panel, on Bring Up the
Bodies...
‘This double accolade is uniquely deserved. Hilary Mantel has rewritten the rules for historical fiction. In Bring up the Bodies, our greatest modern writer retells the origins of modern England.’'
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 2 June 2012.
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Bring Up The Bodies Synopsis
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 Henry 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, and its miasma of gossip, he must negotiate a "e;truth"e; that will satisfy Henry and secure his own career. But neither minister 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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781443414371 |
| Publication date: |
8th May 2012 |
| Author: |
Mantel, Hilary |
| Publisher: |
HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Ebook (Epub) |
| Primary Genre |
Historical Fiction
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