Winner of the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize Shortlisted 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 Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007230181
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90926666
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wolf Hall (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)
Author
Hilary Mantel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Historical
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
1008g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Hilary Mantel
Series Title
The Wolf Hall Trilogy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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