The Booker Prize-winning sequel to Wolf Hall

'Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' Daily Mail

'A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror' Independent on Sunday

Zusatztext Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012! the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. With this historic win for 'Bring Up the Bodies'! Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for 'Wolf Hall' in 2009). By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII! his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn! the king's new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir! and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry! safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne's final days. An astounding literary accomplishment! 'Bri Informationen zum Autor Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers. Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012, hailed her as 'the greatest modern English prose writer'. She is the author of thirteen books, including 'A Place of Greater Safety', 'Beyond Black', and the memoir 'Giving Up the Ghost'. Her two most recent novels, 'Wolf Hall' and its sequel 'Bring Up the Bodies' have both been awarded The Man Booker Prize. In 2014 she was made a Dame. Klappentext The paperback edition of this year's Man Booker Prize winner, this is the second in the series following the life of Thomas Cromwell. The first, "Wolf Hall", also won the Booker Prize and sold more than 500,000 copies in the UK alone. Mantel explores one of the most frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. She is the first English writer and the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice. '... literary invention does not fail her: she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever' Margaret Atwood, "Guardian" Zusammenfassung Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012! the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. ...

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Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers. Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012, hailed her as 'the greatest modern English prose writer'. She is the author of thirteen books, including 'A Place of Greater Safety', 'Beyond Black', and the memoir 'Giving Up the Ghost'. Her two most recent novels, 'Wolf Hall' and its sequel 'Bring Up the Bodies' have both been awarded The Man Booker Prize. In 2014 she was made a Dame.

Klappentext

The paperback edition of this year's Man Booker Prize winner, this is the second in the series following the life of Thomas Cromwell. The first, "Wolf Hall", also won the Booker Prize and sold more than 500,000 copies in the UK alone. Mantel explores one of the most frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. She is the first English writer and the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice. '... literary invention does not fail her: she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever' Margaret Atwood, "Guardian"

Zusammenfassung
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction.