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Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize winner 2012

The Man Booker Prize 2012

Winner
Shortlist
Longlist

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.  
 

Bring Up the Bodies
Bring Up the Bodies

Bring Up the Bodies

Winner of The Booker Prize 2012

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

Swimming Home
Profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy’s pulsating novel reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves
Bring Up the Bodies
Prize winner
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 Lighthouse
No matter where you go the past is never far behind, as Futh discovers in Alison Moore’s unsettling debut novel
Umbrella
Weaving together a dense tapestry of consciousness and a century of lived life, Will Self sets out to understand the nature of the modern world
Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil’s fabulous trip into Bombay’s sprawling underworld, a perilous realm with an exotic cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs

The longlist

The 2012 judges