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'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. 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. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.
From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.
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Biographical fiction, Fiction, History, Man Booker Prize Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2009, award:man_booker_prize=2009, New York Times bestseller, Historical Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2010-08-29, Fictional Works, National book critics circle award, Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Court and courtiers, Courts and courtiers, Politik, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Historischer Roman, Englisch, Romans, nouvelles, HistoirePeople
Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex (1485?-1540), Henry VIII, 1509-1547, Walter Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell, Bet Cromwell, Kat Cromwell, Morgan Williams, Liz Wykys, Gregory Cromwell, Richard Cromwell, Anne Cromwell, Grace Cromwell, Henry Wykys, Mercy Wykys, Johane Williamson, John Williamson, Alice Wellyfed, Richard Williams, Rafe Sadler, Thomas Avery, Helen Barre, Thurston, Christophe, Dick Purser, Thomas Wolsey, George Cavendish, Stephen Gardiner, Thomas Wriothesley, Richard Riche, Thomas Audley, Thomas More Sir, Saint (1478-1535), Alice More, John More, Margaret Roper, Anne Cresacre, Henry Pattinson, Humphrey Monmouth, John Petyt, Lucy Petyt, John Parnell, Little Bilney, John Frith, Antonio Bonvisi, Stephen Vaughan, Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon, Mary I, Anne Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Thomas Boleyn, George Boleyn, Jane Rochford, Thomas Howard, Mary Shelton, Jane Seymour, Charles Brandon, Henry Norris, Francis Bryan, Francis Weston, William Brereton, Nicholas Carew, Mark Smeaton, Henry Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Fitzroy, Henry Percy, William Warham, Cardinal Campeggio, John Fisher, Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Rowland Lee, Lord Berners, Lord Lisle, William Stafford, Lady Bryan, Anne Shelton, Eustache Chapuys, John de Dinteville, Henry Courtenay, Gertrude Courtenay, Margaret Pole, Lord Montague, Geoffrey Pole, Reginald Pole, John Seymour, Edward Seymour, Thomas Seymour, Lizzie Seymour, William Butts, Nikolaus Kratzer, Hans Holbein, Sexton, Elizabeth Barton, Will Roper, William Tyndale, William Carey, Charles V, Francis I, Edward IV, Governor of Jersey, Heinrich VIII. England, König (1491-1547), Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540), König Heinrich (England (8), König, VIII.> Heinrich <England, Thomas Cromwell comte de Essex (1485?-1540)Places
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Wolf Hall
2019, 4th Estate
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Wolf Hall: a novel
2015-03, Picador
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Wolf Hall
2015, Fourth Estate
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Wolf Hall
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2011, Harper Perennial
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Wolf Hall
2009, John Macrae/Henry Holt and Company
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Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, The Observer named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels".
The book is the first in a trilogy; the sequel Bring Up the Bodies was published in 2012. The last book in the trilogy is The Mirror and the Light (2020), which covers the last four years of Cromwell's life.
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