<p>‘This is a bloody story about the death of Anne Boleyn, but Hilary Mantel is a writer who thinks through the blood. She uses her power of prose to create moral ambiguity and the real uncertainty of political life … She has recast the most essential period of our modern English history; <strong>we have the greatest modern English prose writer reviving possibly one of the best known pieces of English history</strong>’ Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012</p>
<p>‘<strong>Simply exceptional</strong> … I envy anyone who hasn’t yet read it’ Sandra Parsons, <em>Daily Mail</em></p>
<p>‘In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIII’s right-hand man is <strong>the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read</strong>. A staggering achievement’ Sarah Crompton, <em>Sunday Telegraph</em></p>
<p>‘Succeeds brilliantly in every particle … <strong>it’s an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives</strong>’ <em>Spectator</em></p>
<p>‘<em>Wolf Hall</em> was a tour de force, but its sequel is leaner, <strong>more brilliant</strong>, more shocking than its predecessor’ Erica Wagner, <em>The Times</em></p>
<p>‘Picks up the body parts where <em>Wolf Hall </em>left off … literary invention does not fail her: <strong>she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever</strong>’ Margaret Atwood, <em>Guardian</em></p>
<p>‘Mantel in the voice of Cromwell is<strong> inspired</strong>. When she is in full flow as a novelist, creating scenes and inventing dialogue, she is more convincing than rendering a recorded scene from history’ Philippa Gregory,<em> Sunday Express</em></p>
<p>‘Don’t think you can start this book whenever you feel like it – plan ahead, as, <strong>once started, it’s impossible to escape its grip, and until it’s finished, you won’t get any sleep</strong>’ <em>Country Life</em></p>
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Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.