This gripping sequel to Wolf Hall is the second volume of Hilary Mantel’s remarkable trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell.
The Man Booker Prize 2012
Hilary Mantel stands to applause on winning the 2012 Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel ascended to the Booker Prize empyrean with the second volume of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, becoming the first woman to win the prize twice.
After the huge critical and commercial success of Wolf Hall, an air of inevitability surrounded the triumph of Bring Up the Bodies. The win put Mantel alongside J.M. Coetzee and Peter Carey on the double victors’ branch at the very top of the Booker Prize tree.
Impatient readers had to wait until 2020 for the concluding part of the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, as Mantel turned playwright, fashioning acclaimed stage adaptations of the first two volumes for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Winner The Booker Prize 2012
- By
- Hilary Mantel
- Published by
- 4th Estate
This gripping sequel to Wolf Hall is the second volume of Hilary Mantel’s remarkable trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell.
The shortlist
Profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy’s pulsating novel reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
By Deborah Levy
No matter where you go the past is never far behind, as Futh discovers in Alison Moore’s unsettling debut novel.
By Alison Moore
Tan Twan Eng’s second novel is a tantalisingly evocative mystery set in Malaya in the late 1940s, a country in recovery from the Second World War.
By Tan Twan Eng
Jeet Thayil’s fabulous trip into Bombay’s sprawling underworld, a perilous realm with an exotic cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs.
By Jeet Thayil
