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In Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, one of our very best writers brings the opulent world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. Parts one and two of Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, brought together for the first time in audio.

Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.

Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize 2009. Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013. Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, promotional material for the stage play loosely inserted.Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012. A truly engaging authorial commentary on a major historical novel.

Her notes are also acutely personal, offering a striking sense of the author’s profound emotional attachment to the stories being told and her absolute immersion into the lives of her characters. On Henry VIII, for instance, she writes: ‘I don’t think he is a monster but there is no type of man (or woman) who is suited to the exercise of absolute power’. They show a deep concern for accuracy and historical truth and a desire to put the humanity of her characters at the very centre of her literary project. Mantel’s annotations are a masterful study in the historical novelist’s art, providing insights into the interpretation of primary sources and the myths and legends surrounding her central characters. The Royal Shakespeare Company produced a two-part adaption of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies in 2014, and in 2015 a six-part television series was broadcast by the BBC. Bring Up the Bodies is the second work in a celebrated trilogy of historical novels – following Wolf Hall (2009) and preceding The Mirror & the Light (2020) – which chart the experiences of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. London: Fourth Estate, 2012.įirst edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel, signed and abundantly annotated by the author with 4753 words of commentary across 179 pages.