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Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

  • 432 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2012
  • 55 editions
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1 About this book

Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by British writer Hilary Mantel, sequel to the award-winning Wolf Hall (2009), and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII. It won the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the 2012 Costa Book of the Year. The final novel in the trilogy is The Mirror & the Light (2020).

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Good for readers who want: historical fiction and literary fiction.

  • Historical fiction
  • Literary fiction
  • Man Booker Prize Winner
  • Great britain

2 About Hilary Mantel

1952–2022

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel ( man-TEL; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.

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