Wolf Hall

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A magisterial new novel that takes us behind the scenes during one of the most formative periods in English history: the reign of Henry VIII. Wolf Hall is told mainly through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, a self-made man who rose from a blacksmith's son in Putney to be the most powerful man in England after the king. The cast also includes Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More, Anne Boleyn and Henry's other wives - and, of course, King Henry himself. It was a time when a half-made society was making itself with great passion and suffering and courage; a time when those involved in the art of the possible were servants to masters only interested in glorious gestures; a time when the very idea of social progress, and of a better world, was fresh, alien and threatening. It was a time of men who weren't like us, but who were creating us

ISBN: 9780007292417
Classification: Historical fiction
Format: Paperback (234mm x 153mm x mm)
Pages: 672
Publish Date: 25-Jun-2009
Country of Publication: United Kingdom

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Author Biography: Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel is the author of seven other novels: 'Every Day is Mother's Day' (1985), 'Vacant Possession' (1986), 'Eight Months on Ghazzah Street' (1988), 'Fludd' (1989), 'A Place of Greater Safety' (1992, winner of the 'Sunday Express' Book of the Year Award), 'A Change of Climate' (1994) and 'An Experiment in Love' (1995). After living abroad for a decade, in Africa and Saudi Arabia, she returned to Britain in 1986.

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Vacant Possession, Paperback / softback (August 2010)

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Wolf Hall, Paperback (March 2010)

Wolf Hall, Paperback (January 2010)

Wolf Hall, Hardback (November 2009)

Wolf Hall, CD-Audio (November 2009)

Wolf Hall, CD-Audio (November 2009)

Wolf Hall, Hardback (October 2009)

Wolf Hall, Paperback (June 2009)

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Granta 101, Paperback / softback (June 2008)

Beyond Black, Paperback (February 2008)

Experiment in Love, Paperback / softback (June 2007)

Giant, O'Brien, Paperback / softback (June 2007)

Place of Greater Safety, Paperback (March 2007)

Who is it That Can Tell Me Who I Am?, Paperback (January 2007)

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