The Mirror and the Light - The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3

The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize ''It is a book not read, but lived'' Telegraph ''Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century'' Observer ''If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?'' The Mirror & The Light begins after the death of Anne Boleyn. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith''s son has knocked down everyone in his path: established at the right hand of Henry VIII, he is the second man in England. But what will you do, an astute witness asks, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? Heralded as the greatest English novels of this century, the Wolf Hall trilogy has won two Booker Prizes and been adapted into hugely successful stage plays. The first two books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , were transformed into a BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning BBC television series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. The cast now returns in the long-awaited concluding series, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light . A Guardian Book of the Year - A Times Book of the Year - A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year - A Sunday Times Book of the Year - A New Statesman Book of the Year - A Spectator Book of the Year Sunday Times Bestseller (08/03/2020)

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Mantel
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9780008739553
• ISBN: 978-0-00-873955-3
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 55 mm
• Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)