Wolf Hall: Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize

Wolf Hall: Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel

The greatest literary sensation of recent times – and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky.In this staggeringly brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s courtiers.Both winners of the Man Booker Prize and already hugely successful stage plays, WOLF HALL and its sequel BRING UP THE BODIES have now been transformed into a BBC television series starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, bringing history to life for a whole new audience.

HILARY MANTEL

WOLF HALL

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To my singular friend Mary Robertson this be given.

CONTENTS

Cover (#ua2a5c0a0-2095-5a71-bd22-f20ddc6d9595)

Title Page (#u041afa25-cbc8-527d-9c2b-228cb8f4a29d)

Copyright (#ua7f44178-af0b-5028-90d7-c6310f718def)

Dedication (#ub19cc783-274d-58d4-8416-c8d96d78c8a6)

Cast of Characters (#u502e36e1-3bb7-5be9-b043-165c93abab34)

Family Trees (#uff0aeafc-4d37-5c46-af52-3421964ae301)

Epigraph (#u9d6b0e6c-06a4-57e3-921f-db16e3f425ef)

Part One (#ub0588985-d08e-53da-8512-0491ee59a7e2)

Chapter I - Across the Narrow Sea. 1500 (#ub78a45b8-0531-53f5-94cb-275e9bbf1c08)

Chapter II - Paternity. 1527 (#ude12fd7f-9e3c-5728-bd27-89c0b0686f1e)

Chapter III - At Austin Friars. 1527 (#uaf130994-47e8-58ef-8a89-6b88d72072a9)

Part Two (#u46c25a53-89c4-55f2-88ae-d442209db4f9)

Chapter I - Visitation. 1529 (#uc447136e-037a-592e-af7f-620fe79afc69)

Chapter II - An Occult History of Britain. 1521–1529 (#u582f3819-ada6-571e-86db-45b10d61d0eb)

Chapter III - Make or Mar. All Hallows 1529 (#u68afe270-0cc2-5883-b4c6-c735616344ba)

Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter I - Three-Card Trick. Winter 1529–Spring 1530 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter II - Entirely Beloved Cromwell. Spring–December 1530 (#litres_trial_promo)

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

Part Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter I - Arrange Your Face. 1531 (#litres_trial_promo)

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

Chapter III - Early Mass. November 1532 (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter I - Anna Regina. 1533 (#litres_trial_promo)

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

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

Part Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter I - Supremacy. 1534 (#litres_trial_promo)