Rarely has a sequel excited such eager anticipation as Hilary Mantel’s follow-up to her bestselling and Booker Prize–winning Wolf Hall, her novel of the court of Henry VIII and England’s break with Rome. Bring Up the Bodies (which also recently won the Booker Prize) continues to chart the rise of Thomas Cromwell, one of the chief architects of the English Reformation and (...)
November 23, 2012
Books
Decent, Respectable & Empty
Checking in with Thomas Cromwell
Bring Up the BodiesHilary MantelHenry Holt, $28, 407 pp.
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