Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition

Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition
Hilary Mantel

‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, the first two instalments in Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy, have gathered readers and praise in equal and enormous measure. They have been credited with elevating historical fiction to new heights and animating a period of history many thought too well known to be made fresh.Through the eyes and ears of Thomas Cromwell, the books’ narrative prism, we are shown Tudor England, the court of King Henry VIII. 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.In ‘Wolf Hall’ we witness Cromwell’s rise, beginning as clerk to Cardinal Wolsey, Henry’s chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. He is soon to become his successor. By 1535, when the action of ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ begins, Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife. Anne’s days, though, are marked. Cromwell watches as the king falls in love with silent, plain Jane Seymour, sensing what Henry’s affection will mean for his queen, for England, and for himself.

Wolf Hall

&

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

Contents

Cover (#u90535d4a-fc55-5626-b321-d4fb841e0497)

Title Page (#u2e214666-14f0-57db-8bc6-9881e9e3103a)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Wolf Hall (#u9a792515-6d53-562b-a60c-cfa0b83cda79)

Bring Up the Bodies (#litres_trial_promo)

Have You Seen…?

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Hilary Mantel (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher

HILARY MANTEL

WOLF HALL

Dedication (#uf7307396-9243-5305-82f0-03e2a6bb319f)

To my singular friend Mary Robertson this be given.

Contents

Cover (#u9a792515-6d53-562b-a60c-cfa0b83cda79)

Title Page (#ub6914153-dc19-5bce-900a-a60446b52ef4)

Dedication (#u2a8abdd5-0efa-52b4-bdf6-16171e2a9e78)

Cast of Characters (#ue071da75-2656-5c43-a84d-ff44227d3238)

Family Trees (#u83c7ba29-8f67-5a61-b37a-b03e76d6715c)

Epigraph (#u3a7ea4ef-f637-5348-8b02-56fdea5da09a)

PART ONE (#u124e517c-1fff-50dc-9ad6-330518ac4ae8)

I - Across the Narrow Sea. 1500 (#u79e5821c-83d0-5664-b3a8-69da3a29fb06)

II - Paternity. 1527 (#ud42d9905-5a4e-5c19-9ac4-04d155837fb0)

III - At Austin Friars. 1527 (#uf5f34713-3b41-5f7a-9afa-2a3ec8fbda7d)

PART TWO (#u1b96e6a3-f194-5db8-b1e2-c57c36d5c3af)

I - Visitation. 1529 (#udc518b79-a99f-58cb-b49c-8a0aca437766)

II - An Occult History of Britain. 1521–1529 (#u952a69bc-07bb-5068-bd9e-f4d3b81369a4)

III - Make or Mar. All Hallows 1529 (#ud0736d0e-68ac-5cc0-92f6-9277d216011e)

PART THREE (#u8d06adac-20a5-5eee-a370-f29b562b3188)

I - Three-Card Trick. Winter 1529–Spring 1530 (#uc6c21403-a0f1-53fe-a26b-1334c1c07da3)

II - Entirely Beloved Cromwell. Spring–December 1530 (#u31f601e9-2cb8-5e32-ac43-dcd1b8198339)

III - The Dead Complain of Their Burial. Christmastide 1530 (#litres_trial_promo)

PART FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)

I - Arrange Your Face. 1531 (#litres_trial_promo)

II - ‘Alas, What Shall I Do For Love?’ Spring 1532 (#litres_trial_promo)

III - Early Mass. November 1532 (#litres_trial_promo)

PART FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)

I - Anna Regina. 1533 (#litres_trial_promo)

II - Devil’s Spit. Autumn and winter 1533 (#litres_trial_promo)

III - A Painter’s Eye. 1534 (#litres_trial_promo)

PART SIX (#litres_trial_promo)

I - Supremacy. 1534 (#litres_trial_promo)

II - The Map of Christendom. 1534–1535 (#litres_trial_promo)