Bring Up the Bodies

In this new edition— the continuation of “Wolf Hall,” one of the most famous British novels of the new century, “the best Booker winner in years” (Scotsman). Moreover, the second book also received the Booker—an unprecedented case in the history of the prize. And in March 2020, the final novel of the trilogy was finally released—“Mirror and Light.”

So, Henry VIII Tudor begins to grow weary of Anne Boleyn (the second of his, as is known, six wives), for the marriage to whom he carried out a religious reformation, making England independent of the Pope. But Anne never gave the king the long-awaited male heir— and now Henry begins to look toward one of Anne’s ladies-in-waiting, Jane Seymour. Getting rid of Anne and the powerful Boleyn clan isn’t so simple— and here, again, the king will be helped by the state secretary Thomas Cromwell, a virtuoso master of backroom intrigues. It seems well known how this story ends—yet Hilary Mantel’s novel reads more gripping than any detective story…